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The Ethics of Climate Change
By rad | November 4, 2007
There is a forthcoming conference on “The Ethics of Climate Change” to be held in Oxford. Here is the advance reading list. Sadly I’m not going to the conference myself. It sponsored by The Tablet & The Pastoral Review
I. The Science of Climate Change & General Information
Flannery, Tim, Weather Makers
Maslin, Mark, Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction
http://www.ipcc.ch/
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change leads scientific research on climate change
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/index.html
UK Met. Office Hadley Centre’s fact sheets & FAQs
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/index.htm
UK Environmental Department’s fact sheets & FAQs
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
USA Environment Protection Agency’s fact sheets & FAQs
http://www.climatescience.gov/
USA Climate Change Science Program’s site
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/home_en.htm
The European Commission’s site on climate change
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/Key_Topics/Climate_Change/
British Antarctic Survey’s pages on climate change
http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/
Oxford University Environmental Change Institute
http://realclimate.org/
‘Climate science from climate scientists’ – a comprehensive site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/portal/climate_change/default.stm
BBC’s website on climate change – accessible and good links
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier
New York Times’ pages on climate change
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Statements_on_Climate_Change
Summary of statements on climate change by various scientific bodies
http://www.whfreeman.com/ruddiman/
William F. Ruddiman on the science of climate change
II. Sceptics of Climate Change
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/
A blog that “points out the weaknesses and outright fallacies in the science that is being touted as ‘proof’ of disastrous warming”. ‘World Climate Report’ has become what ‘Nature’ magazine now calls the “mainstream skeptic” point of view.
http://www.sepp.org/
Science & Environmental Policy Project’s site
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/Index.jsp
The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change was created to “disseminate factual reports and sound commentary on new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine the climatic and biological consequences of the ongoing rise in the air’s CO2 content”.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12
US Senate Committee on Environment & Public works blogs on prominent scientists who have become sceptical about climate change
http://newsbusters.org/node/12628
Report by ‘Die Spiegel’ magazine on the sceptical position regarding climate change
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2007-03-04-1.html
Orson Scott Card summarises the sceptical viewpoint
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11462
‘New Scientist’ response to climate change sceptics
III. General Studies on Ethics and Climate Change
Esty, Daniel & Winston, Andrew, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
Gardner, Stephen, Ethics and Global Climate Change in Ethics 114 (April 2004)
Gore, Al, <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743572025?ie=UTF8&tag=r06c-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743572025″>An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It</a><img src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=r06c-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0743572025″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”" style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /> (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006)
Lovelock, James, Gaia (Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks, 2000)
Lovejoy, Thomas & Hanneh, Lee, Climate Change &7 Biodiversity (Yale: Yale U.P., 2006)
Monbiot, George, Heat: how we can stop the planet burning (London: Penguin, 2007)
Spencer, Nick & White, Robert, Christianity, Climate Change & Sustainable Living (London: SPCK, 2007)
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm
Stern report: The Economics of Climate Change, Cambridge University Press
http://rockethics.psu.edu/climate/whitepaper-intro.htm
White Paper: White Paper on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
http://faculty.washington.edu/smgard/GardinerStorm06.pdf
Stephen Gardiner’s article, “The Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Corruption”
http://environment.yale.edu/climate/working-groups/religion-ethics/
Yale project on religion and ethics of climate change
IV. Christian Ethics of Climate Change
Bradstock, Andrew, Louder than Words (London: DLT, 2007), chapter 3.
Gottlieb, Roger S., A Greener Faith (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
Northcott, Michael, Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming
http://zenit.org/article-14489?l=English
Vatican issues a ‘Decalogue’ on ethics & environment
http://www.rsesymposia.org/
‘Religion, Science & Environment’ is a movement originally conceived in 1988 which has convened six symposia of scientists, environmentalists, policy-makers and representatives of the world’s main religious faiths to promote environmental ethics
http://www.creationcare.org/resources/climate/
Evangelical Environmental Network & Creation Care Magazine’s site on climate change
http://www.cafod.org.uk/about_cafod/what_we_do/environment
CAFOD’s pages on environmental justice
http://www.ecen.org/cms/index.php?page=home
European Christian Environmental Network
http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/
Christian Ecology Link is a multi-denominational UK Christian organisation for people concerned about the Environment
http://conservation.catholic.org/background.htm
Catholic Conservation Center’s site
http://www.climatestewards.org.uk/index.php
A Rocha International is an international conservation organization working to show God’s love for all creation
http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/climatechange/index.htm
Christian Aid’s campaign against climate change
http://www.yale.edu/reflections/
‘God’s Green Earth’ from Reflections, a journal of the Yale Divinity School
http://www.cliftondiocese.com/dynamic_images/527_1dlp.pdf
‘The Pope and the Iceberg’ by Mary Colwell (BBC Natural History unit)
V. Statements of the Catholic hierarchy
http://holyseemission.org/10May2007.html
Holy See’s statement to the UN’s Commission on Sustainable Development
http://www.justpax.it/pcgp/eng/home_eng.html
Pontifical Council for Justice & Peace – various statements and documents on climate change
http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/ejp/climate/index.shtml
US Bishops’ Conference pages on Climate Change Justice
http://www.aenet.org/haribon/bishops.htm
Philippine Bishops’ Conference statement on Environmental Justice
http://www.evangelical-catholicism.com/2007/04/what-is-holy-sees-current-position-on_27.html
A good summary (with links) by a blogger on Church’s position regarding climate change; also a good debate there on the sceptical response
http://www.catholicearthcareoz.net/conference.html
Papers given at a Conference supported by the Australian Bishops’ Conference
VI. Climate change news & blogs
http://climateark.org/
Climate change search engine
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange
The Guardian’s daily climate change and environment news pages
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/
New Scientist site with daily news & commentary on climate change issues
https://www.climatefriendly.com/
Carbon calculator etc
http://www.climate.org/climate_main.shtml
The Climate Institute’s site with links, news and fact sheets
http://www.climatepolicy.org/
A blog maintained by the American Meteorological Society
VII. Sustainable Development
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/
UN Division for sustainable development
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/
UK Government’s guide to sustainable development
http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/
UK Sustainable Development Commission
http://www.nef.org.uk/energyadvice/index.htm
UK National Energy Foundation advice
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html
Comprehensive links site for sustainable development issues – maintained by the Center for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment (Brussels)
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/climate-change
The Development Gateway Foundation links to various sites on sustainable development and the Third World
http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/
Forum for the Future works in partnership with over 120 leading organisations in business and the public sector for just and sustainable development
VIII. Other organisations
http://www.ieep.eu/index.php
The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) is an independent and influential centre for the analysis and development of policies affecting the environment in Europe and beyond
http://www.jri.org.uk/
The John Ray Initiative: connecting Environment, Science and Christianity
http://www.oecd.org
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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