The site contains over 110 articles including 12 videos on ethical issues raised by climate change. The site seeks to help policy makers and interested citizens understand the ethical dimensions of climate change issues in contention in policy debates. The best way to find analysis of specific issues is to use the “search” function on this website or to search the listed “categories” on the right hand side of the home page. Also one may access specific articles under the following subjects in this index. Videos can be found under category “video” and under “video” in the following index.
INDEX
Adaptation and Climate Change Ethics
Two Climate Change Matters Move To Center Stage In Copenhagen With Profound Implications for Developed Nations: Ethics and Adaptation
Advertising and Climate Ethics
The Ethics Of “Clean Coal” Propaganda.
Are Fossil Fuel Industry Commercials Encouraging Americans to Engage In Unethical Climate Change Causing Behavior?
Cap and Trade
The Ethics of Carbon Cap and Trade Continued: Going Deeper On Our Original Analysis
Ethical Issues Raised By Carbon Trading
China
Chinese University Hosts First Conference in China on Climate Change Ethics.
Climate Change Impacts
Why Ethics Requires Acknowledging Links Between Tornadoes and Climate Change Despite Scientific Uncertainty.
Stopping the Worst Environmental Disaster?: An Ethical and Scientific Comparison of the Gulf Oil Spill and Climate Change.
Disinformation Campaign and Climate Ethics
The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: What Kind Of Crime Against Humanity, Tort, Human Rights Violation, Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing Is It? Part Two: Is The Disinformation Campaign a Human Rights Violation Or A Special Kind of Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing ?
The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: What Kind Of Crime Against Humanity, Tort, Human Rights Violation, Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing Is It? Part One: Is The Disinformation Campaign a Crime Against Humanity or A Civil Tort?
The Grave US Media Failure to Report On The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The Ethical Abhorrence of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 3
The Ethical Abhorrence of The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 2
Why The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Is So Ethically Abhorrent
Is Higher Education Failing to Adequately Educate Civil Society About the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign?
Disinformation, Social Stability and Moral Outrage
Irresponsible Skepticism: Lessons Learned From the Climate Disinformation Campaign
Ethical Analysis of Disinformation Campaign’s Tactics: (1) Think Tanks, (2) PR Campaigns, (3) Astroturf Groups, and (4) Cyber-Bullying Attacks.
Ethical Analysis of Disinformation Campaign’s Tactics: (1) Reckless Disregard for the Truth, (2) Focusing On Unknowns While Ignoring Knowns, (3) Specious Claims of “Bad” Science, and (4) Front Groups.
Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Introduction to A Series
An Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Is This A New Kind of Assault on Humanity?
A New Kind of Crime Against Humanity?: The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Disinformation Campaign On Climate Change
Duties of Nations To Act on Climate Change
Equity Remains At Center of Bonn Climate Change Talks.
On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To What Equity Requires of Them In Their Responses to Climate Change.
Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
Ethical Issues Raised By US Blue Dog Democratic Senators’ Opposition to Climate Legislation – When May a Nation Make Domestic GHG Reduction Commitments Contingent on Other Nations’ Actions
Economics and Climate Change Ethics
Free Markets, Externalities, and A Question of Integrity
Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies.
Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Made In Opposition to Climate Change Policies: The Failure To Value The Harms That Will Be Caused by Doing Nothing.
Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: Increased Costs May Not Justify Human Rights Violations
Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: The Failure To Recognize Duties To Non-citizens
What Needs To Be Done To Assure That Ethical Principles Guide Climate Change Policy Making: A Look At The Bridge at The End OF The World
The Stern Report Acknowledges Certain Potential Ethical Issues Created By Standard Economic Analyses Of Climate Change Policies
General Climate Change Ethics
On The Practical Need To Examine Climate Change Policy Issues Through An Ethical Lens
Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
Qatar: The Waiting for the United States Continues
A Video: Even Monkeys Get Climate Change Justice. Why Don’t Governments and the Press?
Qatar: Questions That Governments Should Be Asked About Their Positions on Equity and Justice.
Qatar: Linking Increasing the Ambitiousness Of National Emissions Reductions Commitments To Equitable Responsibilities
How To Make Ethical Principles More Influential In Climate Change Policy Formation: A New Book, Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm, Climate Change Ethics
The Practical Importance For Policy Of Ignoring The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
Introduction to Climate Ethics, Video- Part Two
Why Climate Change Must Be Seen Essentially An Ethical Problem and What Practical Differences Follow From This.
ClimateEthics Analysis Moves to Widener University School of Law As EthicsandClimate.org
ClimateEthics Moves to Widener University School of Law as Ethicsandclimate.org
The Practical Importance of Seeing Climate Change as an Ethical Problem.
US Signers Of US Climate Ethics Statement Statement Wanted
The Practical Significance of US Congressman Waxman’s Achnowledgement That Climate Change Is A Moral Issue
On The Moral Imperatives Of Speaking Publicly About the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change-And How It Must Be Done.
Are Ethical Arguments for Climate Change Action Weaker Than Self-Interest Based Arguments? Why Taking Ethical Arguments Off the Table Is Like A Soccer Team Unilaterally Taking The Goalie Out of the Net.
Twenty Ethical Questions that the US Press Should Ask Opponents of Climate Change Policies.
Ten Reasons Why Examining Climate Change Policy Controversies Through an Ethical Lens Is A Practical Imperative.
Understanding Climate Change Ethics as a Subset of Global Ethics
Why Global Environmental Problems Entail Ethical Obligations
A New Website In Response to Recent Report On the Urgency of Seeing Climate Change as a Moral Concern.
Germany
Ethics and German Energy Policy- Energy Policy as Main Road to Sustainability?
Higher Education and Climate Ethics
Is Higher Education Failing to Adequately Educate Civil Society About the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign?
Universities And The Need To Address Global Climate Change Across Disciplines and Programs
Human Rights and Climate Change
Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: Increased Costs May Not Justify Human Rights Violations
Individual Responsibility For Climate Change
Ethical Obligations of States, Regional and Local Governments, Organizations, Businesses, and Individuals to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
International Climate Regime
Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
Qatar: The Waiting for the United States Continues
Qatar: Questions That Governments Should Be Asked About Their Positions on Equity and Justice.
Qatar: Linking Increasing the Ambitiousness Of National Emissions Reductions Commitments To Equitable Responsibilities
Qatar Climate Change Negotiations: An Open Letter To US President Obama From the World’s Poorest Nations.
Going Deeper On What Happened In Durban: An Ethical Critique of Durban Outcomes.
An Ethical Analysis of the Cancun Climate Negotiations Outcome.
A Comprehensive Ethical Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord.
Two Climate Change Matters Move To Center Stage In Copenhagen With Profound Implications for Developed Nations: Ethics and Adaptation
The Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change Issues Report to Press at COP-15
ClimateEthics.org Identifies Ethical Issues Entailed by Copenhagen Negotiations
Ethical Failures of National GHG Emissions Reduction Proposals Approaching Copenhagen
Minimum Ethical Criteria For All Post-Kyoto Regime Proposals: What Does Ethics Require of A Copenhagen Outcome
Collaborative Program on Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change Calls for Ethical Leadership in Poznan, Poland Climate Change Negotiations
Climate Ethics in Bali – the Urgency of Seeing Climate Change as an Ethical and Justice Concern
Nations Must Follow Justice In Climate Change Negotiations
Politics and Climate Ethics
A video: Why Politicians May Not Rely On Their Own Uninformed Opinion On Climate Change Science.
Why Politicians May Not Ethically Rely on Their Own Uninformed Opinion About Climate Science and 10 Questions That The Press Should Ask Politicians About Climate Science In Light of This Responsibility.
Qatar Climate Change Negotiations: An Open Letter To US President Obama From the World’s Poorest Nations.
An Ethical Analysis of Mitt Romney’s Climate Change Views-Part Two
An Ethical Analysis Of US Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s Views On Climate Change
The Silence of US President Obama on Climate Change-A Serious Ethical Lapse?
Ethical Problems With some of the Obama Team’s Approach to Climate Change?
The Practical Significance of US Congressman Waxman’s Achnowledgement That Climate Change Is A Moral Issue
Scientific Uncertainty and Climate Ethics
On Confusing Two Roles of Science and Their Relation to Ethics.
Why Ethics Requires Acknowledging Links Between Tornadoes and Climate Change Despite Scientific Uncertainty.
The US Academy of Sciences’ Reports On Climate Change and The US Moral Climate Change Failure.
Ethical Issues Raised by the Work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Report On The Bali Workshop (COP-13)
New York Times Krugman Claims That US Congressional Hearings Are A Moral Failure: The US Congress and The Ethics of Willful Ignorance.
The Worst Ethical Scandal In the US Congress: Climate Change?
Twenty Ethical Questions that the US Press Should Ask Opponents of Climate Change Policies.
The Strong Scottish Moral Leadership On Climate Change Compared To The Absence Of Any Acknowledged Ethical Duty In The US Debate.
Ethical Issues Raised By US Blue Dog Democratic Senators’ Opposition to Climate Legislation – When May a Nation Make Domestic GHG Reduction Commitments Contingent on Other Nations’ Actions
Solutions To Climate Change Including Geo-Engineering
Ethical Issues With Relying On Natural Gas As A Solution to Climate Change
Wind Power Ethics
The Ethics of Allocating Public Research Funds for Carbon Capture and Storage
Ethical Issues Raised by Waiting for Geological Carbon Storage
Scotland
The Strong Scottish Moral Leadership On Climate Change Compared To The Absence Of Any Acknowledged Ethical Duty In The US Debate.
States and Climate Change
Why US States Have A Duty To Reduce Their Emissions to Their Fair Share of Safe Global Emissions: The Case of Pennsylvania.
Sustainability Ethics
An Opportunity to Learn About Links Between Global Governance and Environmental Ethics
The Agenda 21 Disinformation Campaign In the United States: An Ethical Critique Of An Attack on Sustainability
New Book Describes Ways To Accelerate US Transition To Sustainability-Including A Greater Emphasis On Ethics.
Agenda 21: A Guide for the Perplexed: Disinformation Campaign About Sustainable Development Emerges In the United States
US Response To Climate Change
Why Politicians May Not Ethically Rely on Their Own Uninformed Opinion About Climate Science and 10 Questions That The Press Should Ask Politicians About Climate Science In Light of This Responsibility.
The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of the Climate Change Threat.
Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
Qatar: The Waiting for the United States Continues
Qatar Climate Change Negotiations: An Open Letter To US President Obama From the World’s Poorest Nations.
How US Climate Change Law Must Be Reconciled With Existing International Law and Ethical Obligations.
New York Times Krugman Claims That US Congressional Hearings Are A Moral Failure: The US Congress and The Ethics of Willful Ignorance.
The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms.
The Worst Ethical Scandal In the US Congress: Climate Change?
The Strong Scottish Moral Leadership On Climate Change Compared To The Absence Of Any Acknowledged Ethical Duty In The US Debate.
US Media And Climate Change.
A video: Why Politicians May Not Rely On Their Own Uninformed Opinion On Climate Change Science.
Why Politicians May Not Ethically Rely on Their Own Uninformed Opinion About Climate Science and 10 Questions That The Press Should Ask Politicians About Climate Science In Light of This Responsibility.
The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of the Climate Change Threat.
A Video: Even Monkeys Get Climate Change Justice. Why Don’t Governments and the Press?
An Ethical Examination of How The US Press Has Covered Links Between Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change
Will Hurricane Sandy Remedy The US Media’s Grave Failures To Adequately Cover Climate Change?
The Grave US Media Failure to Report On The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The Grave US Media Failure to Communicate About The Consistent Barrier That The United States Has Been To Finding A Global Solution to Climate Change.
The US Media’s Grave Failure To Communicate The Significance of Understanding Climate Change as A Civilization Challenging Ethical Issue.
The US Media’s Grave Communication Failure On The Magnitude Of GHG Emissions Reductions Necessary To Prevent Dangerous Climate Change
In Praise and Criticism of the PBS Frontline Program, Climate of Doubt
Five Grave Communications Failures of the US Media On Climate Change-The Failure To Communicate The Strength of The Scientific Consensus
Five Grave Communications Failures of The US Media On Climate Change
The Crucial Missing Element in Media Coverage of the US Climate Change Debate: the Ethical Duty to Reduce GHG Emissions
Video
A video: Why Politicians May Not Rely On Their Own Uninformed Opinion On Climate Change Science.
A short video : Can The United States Justify Its Unwillingness to Reduce Its GHG Emissions on Economic Interest Alone?
A Video: Even Monkeys Get Climate Change Justice. Why Don’t Governments and the Press?
Five Grave Communications Failures of The US Media On Climate Change
An Ethical Analysis of Mitt Romney’s Climate Change Views-Part Two
An Ethical Analysis Of US Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s Views On Climate Change
The Ethical Abhorrence of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 3
The Ethical Abhorrence of The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 2
Introduction to Climate Ethics, Video- Part Two
Introduction to Climate Ethics, Video Part One
Why The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Is So Ethically Abhorrent
Why Climate Change Must Be Seen Essentially An Ethical Problem and What Practical Differences Follow From This.
