Andrew Guzman’s book reviewed by The Washington Post, May 3, 2013

With lines like “The changing climate will create a world of people dying of thirst and hunger,” ‘Overheated’ can be a hard book to read. But its strength lies in its clear-eyed assessment of the costs involved in various policy responses to the issue. “There should be no mistaking the fact that this will involve some economic sacrifice,” he writes…. Unless we impose a higher price on carbon, he warns, “we will trigger human tragedy on a scale the world has never seen.”

Andrew Guzman’s book reviewed by USA Today, April 25, 2013

This book is a cautionary tale of what will happen if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius, a fairly optimistic scientific prediction. Guzman, a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says it could incite terrorism as groups fight for scarcer resources, cause island nations to disappear, and displace millions of people to refugee camps where infectious disease could spread.

Andrew Guzman interviewed by KPFA FM, Up Front, March 25, 2013

Climate change is often thought of as a scientific topic, which it is, but it’s a lot more than that. Once we acknowledge that there are changes to our physical world as a result of climate change, there’s another step: What’s it going to do to human beings? What’s it going to do to you and me?

Andrew Guzman quoted in San Jose Mercury News, March 21, 2013

“A conservative assumption is that we will see a rise in global temperature of 2 degrees Celsius in this century,” Guzman said. He said that type of rise in global temperature will kill hundreds of millions and “badly damage” billions of people. “Those numbers are alarming, but that is because we should be alarmed,” he said.

Andrew Guzman quoted in The Toronto Star, March 5, 2013

“We will have more droughts, more floods, and they will be more severe,” Guzman says. Historically, big droughts were far apart, maybe as much as a 100 years between two. “Now, they happen often and they have global impact.” Future conflicts, says Guzman, will be caused by, or become worse because of, climate change.

Andrew Guzman interviewed by KQED-FM, Forum with Michael Krasny, February 21, 2013

“It struck me that being an international law professor and not working on this particular international problem is a little bit like being a European military expert in 1939 and not being interested in Nazi Germany; this seems very central. It soon became clear to me that the main hurdle to further progress on climate change was that the public didn’t have a complete sense of how severe the problem was.”

Andrew Guzman interviewed by KRON4-TV, News Weekend, February 10, 2013

“Close to 30 percent of that [Sierra] snowpack should be gone by 2050. If you think of how much water that provides us, and you know that our population in California is growing, the arithmetic of water in California just doesn’t work.”

Andrew Guzman writes for Huffington Post, January 9, 2013

The United States is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in American history. One consequence is that the water level of the Mississippi River has fallen to the point where the river itself may have to be shut down to shipping traffic. What would a shutdown mean? Well, consider that 60 percent of all grain exported from the United States travels on the river. Or that over a period of a couple of weeks the river carried goods through St. Louis that would fill 500,000 semi trucks. In other words, we have no workable substitute for the river.

Andrew Guzman writes for The Huffington Post, December 17, 2012

We need to see climate change as more than simply a series of weather events that will cause the same kind of harm that weather always causes…. Each such event puts a strain on the basic infrastructure upon which we rely for our daily lives: sewage, health care, food, water, transportation, communication. Sometimes these systems will be strained enough to fail, and when they do, as happened to sewage systems during Hurricane Sandy, costs (both human and financial) skyrocket.

The Huffington Post, February 8, 2011 by John Haffner
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-haffner/lawyers-without-borders-i_b_820548.html

As Andrew Guzman, director of graduate programs at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law candidly comments, “I don’t think that law schools, collectively, have figured out what it is they should be doing. A lot of schools are trying different things with the word ‘international’ in them.”