Global Warming

By the numbers

"...This list of 10 startling global warming facts was compiled by Environmental Defense.1 Rank of..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

Serving Global Warming

New report claims that between 1960 and 2001 global warming increased more in Texas than in any other state

"...downtown Austin. "Texas is in the frying pan with global warming," said Environment Texas advocate Luke Metzger. "To protect..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature

What About 'Global Warming'?

"...economics, and science. I assume that you would include "global warming." (I use the term loosely.) In a letter..."

March 15, 2006 Postmarks

Global Warming Treaty Update

While the international community and some U.S. cities embrace the Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration resists, in typical assbackwards fashion

"...newly released studies detailing the disastrous implications of a warming planet, many industrialized nations other than the U.S. made..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Global Warming

A political timeline

"...International Panel on Climate Change report says that unprecedented global warming is very likely...."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature

Clarifying Global Warming

"...in the Chronicle, Jim Hightower ["The Hightower Report"] discusses global warming and states, "At issue is the thin layer..."

Oct. 27, 2003 Postmarks

Prevent Global Warming Now

"...of a role our world’s oceans have in the global warming process that has started to transpire in recent..."

March 28, 2013 Postmarks

Right-Wingers Fear Global Warming

"...Dear Editor, Let's face it: Right-wingers fear global warming because it highlights the bankruptcy of their policies..."

May 19, 2007 Postmarks

Global Warming Is a Global Fraud

"...neophyte who has totally bought into the fraud of global warming (aka global fraud). The Copenhagen summit has nothing..."

Nov. 8, 2009 Postmarks

Global Warming Is Real

"...have not informed themselves on the growing issue of global warming, it is even more globally unknown that much..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Postmarks

Frying a Global-Warming Denier

"...Dear Editor, It's so hot you can fry a global-warming denier on the sidewalk...."

July 22, 2011 Postmarks

What Would John Galt Do ... About Global Warming? Deny It.

Is John Mackey's 'John Galt' complex putting Whole Foods' bottom line on the line?

"...regarding the causes of climate change," dismisses "hysteria about global warming" and international efforts to mitigate its effects, and..."

Jan. 15, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Another 'Truth' About Global Warming

"...Center points to the real cause of the recent warming trend. In a series of experiments on the formation..."

May 9, 2007 Postmarks

COP25: We Can’t Keep Global Warming Capped at 1.5 Degrees Celsius If Oil & Gas Don’t Do Their Part

VIDEO: There’s no wiggle room for adding more fossil fuel production

"...to meet the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, then the fossil..."

Dec. 10, 2019 News Post

This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: What Austin Is Doing to Combat Global Warming

Plus a look at an innovative program helping combat veterans via song

Nov. 1, 2019 News Post by Kimberley Jones

At COP28’s Global Stocktake, Countries Look Inward

Process checks progress on Paris Agreement targets

"...The Paris Agreement establishes a process for the global community to collaborate toward the goal of keeping global..."

Dec. 5, 2023 News Post

Writing the Climate

Flannery and Kolbert on the accelerating pace of global warming

"...a discussion between two prominent researchers and writers on global warming. One was journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, known best for..."

May 18, 2007 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Cool It

Based on the book by Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, this documentary approaches the problems caused by global warming without panic.

"...that we have been poleaxed by the fear of global warming so completely that we are, in effect, immobilized...."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Greedy Lying Bastards

The greedy lying bastards are those responsible for destroying our planet's climate, and this documentary is naming names.

"...trick right-wing politicians and pundits use when they declare global warming a hoax. Unfortunately, it is also the tactic..."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?

This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear

"..."WHEREAS, global scientific consensus predicts as a consequence of global warming..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Carbon Nation

Carbon dioxide emissions will be the death of us all unless we take steps to counteract the harm already done, says this new eco-doc.

"...time at the start of his documentary proving that global warming and climate change are, indeed, actual facts of..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Day After Tomorrow

A new Ice Age cometh

"...the near-instantaneous onset of another ice age caused by global warming is great fun for those of us who..."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Earth

This nature film is derived from the Planet Earth miniseries and is edited with an eye toward the kid-friendly audience.

"...circle of life, which is why its pussyfooting around global warming strikes one as rather disingenuous. In the film’s..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Getting Warmer

A leading environmentalist on the growing threat to the planet and the future

"...had gathered in Japan to draw up a first-ever global treaty to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. But when word finally..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Bill Mckibben

The 11th Hour

Leonardo DiCaprio narrates this well-constructed – but oddly calm – documentary on global climate change aimed at the fence sitters, not the true believers.

"...arguments seeking to dismiss or obfuscate the factuality of global climate change. It went like this: "If the babysitter..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kingsman: The Secret Service

This comic-book riff on James Bond films finds fun amid the ultraviolence.

"...impenetrably ludicrous plot about supervillain Valentine’s scheme to end global warming by tricking the people of the world into..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Snowpiercer

This English-language debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is a riveting sci-fi action film entirely set on a speeding train.

"...some 17 years after a failed experiment to counteract global warming initiated a catastrophic new Ice Age, a train..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Chasing Ice

Time-lapse photography of various glaciers melting over the years provides undeniable evidence that they are disappearing faster than ever before.

"...not at a pace that was once called glacial. Global warming is causing the ice to melt at an..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Waiting for 'Superman'

More provocative than genuinely informative, this documentary, nevertheless, has kicked off a national discussion about remedying our failing educational system.

"...in much the same manner as he did with global warming in An Inconvenient Truth. The premise of Waiting..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore’s zeal for spreading knowledge about global warming is inspiring and this documentary about his efforts also showcases the new, improved Gore.

"...a document of Gore’s traveling slide show about the global-warming crisis, a presentation he’s been perfecting in auditoriums across..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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