An Ethical Analysis Of US Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s Views On...
Editor’s Note: This entry contains both a video and a the text on which the video was based that examines the views of US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on climate change though an ethical lens....
View ArticleHow US Climate Change Law Must Be Reconciled With Existing International Law...
The following video explains how US law on climate change must be upgraded to be consistent with a body of international law on climate change that has developed over the past 20 years as well as...
View ArticleThe Practical Importance For Policy Of Ignoring The Ethical Dimensions of...
I. Introduction Here we examine the practical importance of identifying and expressly examining ethical issues that must be faced in policy formation as policy is debated and unfolds. What...
View ArticleAn Ethical Analysis of Mitt Romney’s Climate Change Views-Part Two
This is the second video looking at Mitt Romney’s statements on climate change through an ethical lens. In the first video, we examined critically Romney’s justifications for non-action on climate...
View ArticleFive Grave Communications Failures of The US Media On Climate Change
This video examines 5 grave tragic communications failures of the US media on climate change. These include the failure to communicate; The strength of the scientific consensus The civilization...
View ArticleFive Grave Communications Failures of the US Media On Climate Change-The...
I. Introduction The US media has utterly failed to communicate to the American people about five essential aspects of climate change that they need to understand to know why climate change is a...
View ArticleIn Praise and Criticism of the PBS Frontline Program, Climate of Doubt
On October 23, 2012, the PBS program Frontline aired a program called Climate of Doubt. available on the PBS website at www.pbs.org/frontline/ This program describes the success of right-wing...
View ArticleThe US Media’s Grave Failure To Communicate The Significance of Understanding...
I. Introduction This is the fourth entry in a series that is examining grave communications failures of the US media in regard to climate change. In this series we examine how the American media has...
View ArticleHow To Make Ethical Principles More Influential In Climate Change Policy...
Many observers of climate change policy developments around the world agree that climate change is a civilization-challenging ethical problem, yet most governments have utterly failed to enact climate...
View ArticleQatar Climate Change Negotiations: An Open Letter To US President Obama From...
I. Introduction Over the next few weeks EthicsandClimate.org will be focusing on the upcoming Qatar climate negotiations, the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP-18) that will be held from November...
View ArticleA video: Why Politicians May Not Rely On Their Own Uninformed Opinion On...
This 11 minute video examines why politicians, unlike many ordinary citizens, may not rely upon their own uninformed opinion on climate change science as a basis for refusing to support climate change...
View ArticleOn the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the...
This article seeks to explain in understandable terms why nations must not only aggressively respond to climate change but respond at levels required of them by equity if the world is going to have...
View ArticleEthical Issues with Relying on Natural Gas as a Solution to Climate Change
I. Introduction Interest in tackling climate change in the United States has increased somewhat recently in response to global CO2 atmospheric concentrations reaching 400 ppm,...
View ArticleThe Anti-Agenda 21 Disinformation Campaign, Part 2
I. Introduction to Part 2 This article continues the analysis of the anti-Agenda 21 disinformation campaign begun in our last article. In that article we looked at the four claims about Agenda...
View ArticleAn Ethical Analysis of Obama’s Climate Speech, the Adverse Political Reaction...
On June 25th, President Obama gave a major speech on climate change in which he announced what his administration would do to reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions in the United States. Although...
View Article“What Is Wrong Climate Politics And How to Fix It” A Review of a New Book By...
Given the strength of the scientific evidence that the world is rapidly heading to a climate catastrophe, it is vitally important to ask what has gone so terribly wrong with the world’s political...
View ArticleNew York Times Article Misleads On The Moral Acceptability of Climate Change...
Many observers of the state of global response to climate change have concluded that there is no hope in preventing devastating climate change harms unless nations and individuals understand that they...
View ArticleA New Web Site Enables Climate Policy Makers To Fulfill Their Ethical...
As we have explained from many angles on this website, climate change is a civilization challenging ethical problem. We have also explained why nations urgently need to immediately respond to their...
View ArticleEthical and Justice Issues In Contention At the Warsaw Climate...
Negotiations on the international climate regime have begun in Warsaw at a time when the scientific community, including the IPCC in its recent report on the Physical Basis for Climate Change Science...
View ArticleThe Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Change...
This is the third paper in a series which is looking at the ethical and justice issues entailed by the Warsaw climate change negotiating agenda. This paper looks at issue two, namely, the ethics and...
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