(published before the most recent IPCC Summary for Policymakers on the Mitigation of Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf):
- James Wolcott, Rush to Judgment, Vanity Fair, May 2007.
"Attacking environmentalists as hippie-dip "wackos" who care more about spotted owls than people and use polar bears for propaganda, Rush Limbaugh has blinded millions of Americans to the climate crisis."
This is one of many articles, etc. in Vanity Fair's Green Issue. - George Monbiot, Giving Up On Two Degrees, 1 May 2007.
As published in The Guardian the article has a more alarmist title:
The rich world's policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear: millions will die.
"Our governments have set the wrong targets to tackle climate change using outdated science, and they know it."
BTW, I love Monbiot's blog motto:
Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it.
Tell them something new and they will hate you for it. - Paul Hawken, A Global Democratic Movement Is About to Pop, AlterNet.org, 1 May 2007.
originally published as:
To Remake the World: Something Earth-changing is afoot among civil society, Orion, May/June 2007.