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BC’s Methane Emissions Are Double What Government Thought: Study
BC’s Methane Emissions Are Double What Government Thought: Study The province’s own research has found flaws in how natural gas was detected and measured. Premier John Horgan in Kitimat announcing LNG Canada’s $40 billion investment in 2018. At the time, BC said fracked gas fit its climate action goals, but a new study doubles emissions […]
When climate breakdown goes nuclear
When climate breakdown goes nuclear Wikipedia Nuclear is on the front-line of climate change – and not in a good way. Climate models have run hot in the last year. As knowledge of climate sensitivity and polar ice melt-rate evolves, it’s become clear that sea-level rise is significantly faster than previously thought – which means more frequent and destructive storm, […]
Let’s Talk About Infrastructure
Let’s Talk About Infrastructure The Hungry Horse Dam located just outside Hungry Horse, Montana Let’s talk about infrastructure, shall we? Living in the human-built world day in and day out, we often forget that all these buildings, roads, buried pipes, wires, sewers, and literally everything else we build is not actually natural. We require nature […]
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule. A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule. IMAGE: GETTY A remarkable new study by a director at one of […]
The Latest Fraud of CNN
The Latest Fraud of CNN CNN is deliberately misleading the public, and they REFUSE to do any real investigative reporting. They should be shut down as a propaganda organization that is against the national security of the United States. Anyone who would bother to just look at how that statistic was created would be ashamed to […]
Yellen Urges Development Banks To Stop Fossil Fuel Funding
Yellen Urges Development Banks To Stop Fossil Fuel Funding U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is prepared to gather together the heads of development banks to persuade them to stop fossil fuel project funding, according to Bloomberg. The Treasury Secretary intends to “articulate our expectations that the MDBs align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement and net-zero […]
Our climate change turning point is right here, right now
Our climate change turning point is right here, right now People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act. In April, California Gov. Gavin Newsom held a news conference in the parched basin of Lake Mendocino, where he announced a drought emergency for […]
Myth #22: Nate Hagens discredits claim “We Can Always Get More Resources If We Have More Money”
Myth #22: Nate Hagens discredits claim “We Can Always Get More Resources If We Have More Money” “We can create money, but we cannot create energy, only extract what exists — FASTER.” “We can create money, but we cannot create energy, only extract what exists — FASTER. And importantly, when money is created the interest is […]
The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport
The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport Like all self-organized, adaptive systems, society moves in nonlinear ways. Even as our civilization unravels, a new ecological worldview is spreading globally. Will it become powerful enough to avert a cataclysm? None of us knows. Perhaps the Great Transition to an ecological civilization is already under way, but […]
Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the ‘Most Extreme in World Weather Records’
Flames surround the drought-stricken Shasta Lake in Lakehead, California on July 2, 2021. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images) Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the ‘Most Extreme in World Weather Records’ “Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin.” A pair of climate scientists […]
Mississippi Claims Memphis is Stealing its Groundwater, Supreme Court to Decide
Mississippi Claims Memphis is Stealing its Groundwater, Supreme Court to Decide A long standing battle between states over water rights is headed to the Supreme Court. The battle over water rights is heating up. Please consider the State of Mississippi v. City of Memphis and Memphis Light, Gas, and Water now on the Supreme Court Docket. Mississippi’s […]
Bootleg Fire In Oregon Uncontrollably Doubles In Size Amid Megadrought
Bootleg Fire In Oregon Uncontrollably Doubles In Size Amid Megadrought Large swaths of the Western half of the US experienced triple-digit temperatures this past weekend, with intense heat expected to continue through mid-week. As the West baked, a huge wildfire doubled in size in southern Oregon, continuing to threaten major transmission lines that feed power […]
The show is over.
The show is over. Climate strike in Lausanne Tomorrow 150 weeks will have passed since we started to school strike for the climate. During this time more and more people around the world have woken up to the climate- and ecological crisis, putting more and more pressure on you — the people in power. Eventually […]
Speaking for the Old Growth
Speaking for the Old Growth Famed tree botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger has a tough message for BC Premier John Horgan. ‘These giants of the universe with their unique DNA represent a living library of medicine for the citizens of the world,’ says biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. Photo for The Tyee by Colin Rowe. The world recognized tree botanist, biochemist […]
Diagnosing Abiotic Disorders I
Diagnosing Abiotic Disorders I Abiotic factors cause harm to plants resulting in symptoms. Abiotic disorders can look like damage caused by pests but do not spread in the same ways since the disease agent is not alive. Insects and pathogens cause damage and disease in garden plants, but damage can also occur in absence of […]
