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Professor of Law • Associate Dean for International and Advanced Degree Programs

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The Real Climate-Change Lesson from the Oklahoma Tornado

By andrewguzman On May 23, 2013 · Add Comment
It seems that every major weather-related event becomes a skirmish in the climate-change wars. The terrible tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma is no exception. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, for example, suggested a connection between the tornado and climate change. Climate change deniers responded in the usual way, with accusations of fear-mongering. With respect [...]
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Big Idea: The Human Cost of Global Warming

By andrewguzman On May 17, 2013 · Add Comment
What’s your big idea? We have all heard of climate change. In fact, many people are tired of hearing about it. Despite all the talk, the most important aspect of climate change has not been made clear: how serious it will be for human being The news notes facts about the physical world: the ice [...]
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The Five Stages Of Climate Change Acceptance

By andrewguzman On March 18, 2013 · Add Comment
A few days ago, the President of the United States used the State of the Union address to call for action on climate change. The easy way to do so would have been to call on Congress to take action. Had President Obama framed his remarks in this way, he would have given a nod [...]
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Climate Change and the Shrinking Mississippi

By andrewguzman On January 9, 2013 · Add Comment
Conversations about climate change routinely observe that extreme weather, including droughts, will be exacerbated as the Earth warms. Droughts lead to a lot of bad things, including food shortages, water shortages, and fires. In recent days, however, there has been a news story developing that illustrates an additional consequence of drought, and one that deserves [...]
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Overheated: Book Review: A Rise Of Mere 2 Degrees

By andrewguzman On December 18, 2012 · Add Comment
Dire and detailed description of what tragedies are in the making for humanity as global warming continues its seemingly inexorable rise. Guzman (Law/Univ. of California; How International Law Works, 2010, etc.) writes that climate change is “perhaps the greatest international challenge of this century and beyond,” yet “people have not come to accept how serious [...]
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Sandy and Sewage: Why We Underestimate the Costs of Climate Change

By andrewguzman On December 18, 2012 · Add Comment
The New York Times recently printed a story describing how the sewage systems of New York and New Jersey were badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy: Hundreds of millions of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage from crippled treatment plants have flowed into waterways in New York and New Jersey, exposing flaws in the region’s [...]
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What Authors Say About Overheated

By andrewguzman On December 14, 2012 · Add Comment
“Overheated provides a lucid vision of the catastrophic consequences we will face if we fail to transition away from a fossil fuel-based economy. What gives the book power is the perspective it provides, of a legal scholar who initially viewed climate change as an interesting topic for academic research, to a passionate advocate for tackling [...]
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Climate is a Security Issue

By andrewguzman On November 17, 2012 · Add Comment
The National Research Council (NRC) has recently released a study called Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis.  The security implications of climate change have been discussed in other, similar studies in the past, and this one is largely consistent with what has come before.  The central message is that the changing climate will [...]
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Overheated: Book Review by Publishers Weekly

By andrewguzman On November 17, 2012 · Add Comment
In his latest, UC Berkeley law professor Guzman (How International Law Works) illustrates the exact ways that climate change will harm humanity. To persuade naysayers, one section is addressed to skeptics and picks apart articles that diminish the imperative nature of the crisis, while citing environmental science to show just how the planet will continue [...]
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Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change

By andrewguzman On November 16, 2012 · Add Comment
In Overheated, Guzman takes climate change out of the realm of scientific abstraction to explore its real-world consequences. He writes not as a scientist, but as an authority on international law and economics. He takes as his starting point a fairly optimistic outcome in the range predicted by scientists: a 2 degree Celsius increase in [...]
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  • Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change, Oxford University Press

© 2012 Andrew Guzman

Andrew Guzman
Professor of Law • Associate Dean for International and Advanced Degree Programs

University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall #7200
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200

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