Will AMOC Kill Us All?
Will AMOC Kill Us All? Draft script: You’ve probably heard a lot about the AMOC, which is short for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current. Based on my awkward pronunciation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, you can understand why I prefer the acronym, AMOC. With this video, I will provide an overview of the AMOC, […]
Bye-bye Carbon
Bye-bye Carbon Photo by K B on Unsplash Ours is a carbon based economy. On the other hand, carbon emissions are wrecking the climate; for proof just take a look at this short tour de force from Paul Beckwith. In related news UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879. But why is that so? Are we on a […]
EIA Confirms U.S. Producing More Oil Than Any Country in History
EIA Confirms U.S. Producing More Oil Than Any Country in History In mid-December, I wrote here that the U.S. had set a new annual oil production record: “The U.S. set a new annual oil production record on December 15, based on data from the Energy Information Administration. Although the official monthly numbers from the EIA won’t be […]
Advances and challenges in understanding compound weather and climate extremes
Advances and challenges in understanding compound weather and climate extremes Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the context of global warming, many extremes, such as heat waves, heavy precipitation, and droughts, have become increasingly frequent and intense, as expected theoretically. Somewhat unexpectedly, these extremes have also exhibited tightened linkage in both time and space, constituting compound […]
The Next Ten Years and the Fate of Civilization, Why We’re at a Crossroads in History, Plus, What Broken Ages End In
The Next Ten Years and the Fate of Civilization, Why We’re at a Crossroads in History, Plus, What Broken Ages End In (Why) We’re at a Crossroads in History It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost halfway through the 2020s. It’s the year 2024, and…how would you say things are going? For us, whether as […]
Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics
Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics Global distribution of study sites and relative 13 species considered (red dots = Arctic sites; red line = Arctic species and samples; yellow dots = Antarctica sites; yellow line = Antarctica species and samples). For each species, the matrices analyzed are shown in […]
Synthetic Controversy
Synthetic Controversy Regarding modern psywar application of the divide and conquer strategy Chapter 7: Competitive Strategy In war, the army succeeds by deception(surprising the enemy), by moving the enemy with benefits, and by divide or concentration of forces in variation. Sun Tzu, The Art of War In his first Italian campaign in 1796 and 1797, Napoleon was […]
Climate Crisis-Scientist Rings the Alarm, “We are witnessing consequences of our inaction unfold in real-time.”
Climate Crisis-Scientist Rings the Alarm, “We are witnessing consequences of our inaction unfold in real-time.” Global catastrophe and Global Warming Concept Climate Crisis-“It turns out the climate is changing for the worse far quicker than predicted by early climate models.“ Climate change is taking affect in an era defined by soaring temperatures and escalating environmental […]
Alfred McCoy, Living in a Quagmire World
Alfred McCoy, Living in a Quagmire World Americans have never liked to think of themselves as part of the West’s imperial history that began with the Roman empire and may now quite literally be ending, as historian and TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy suggests, in a distinctly un-American moment. The author of a classic history of empire, To Govern […]
Minimisation Is The New Denial – climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero
Minimisation Is The New Denial – climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero The temperature extremes of 2023 and those coming in 2024, tell us we face the possibility of climate catastrophes that cause the collapse of whole societies and threaten the lives of millions, not at some distant point in our children’s futures but within our own lifetimes. […]
Fruit Chaos Is Coming
Fruit Chaos Is Coming Climate change is threatening to turn sublime summer stone fruits disgusting, or rob us of their pleasures entirely. Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Summer, to me, is all about stone fruit: dark-purple plums, peaches you can smell from three feet away. But last summer, I struggled to […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI–Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI November 12, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns Today’s contemplation is a quick rundown of three of the roadblocks I see preventing us from achieving the utopian dream of a seamless ‘clean’ energy transition from […]
Twilight of the Blobs
Twilight of the Blobs “Respect the blob, learn from the blob, love the blob.” — Robert Kagan, Arch Blob Monster, Brookings, 2020 HG Wells concocted a marvelous trick ending to his classic tale The War of the Worlds (1897). Remember: the colossal Martian tripod “fighting machines” swarm all over the planet zapping cities with “heat […]
