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Unearthing the Work of Indigenous Master Horticulturalists
Unearthing the Work of Indigenous Master Horticulturalists These forest gardeners got sustainable returns for centuries. Dr. Chelsey Geralda Armstrong is now studying their work. The SFU team found ecological diversity was richer on the lands of ancient Indigenous villages than in neighbouring forests. Photo submitted. Ahistorical ecologist and her team at Simon Fraser University have made […]
Why mitigation will never stabilize the climate
Why mitigation will never stabilize the climate I have previously shown that it is too late to mitigate, by at least fifty years (see my earlier blog post of 18 January 2021). Central to that argument are the facts of self-reinforcing feedback loops, tipping points, and the realization that temperature increases from higher concentrations of Greenhouse […]
Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism
Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Biden gave us his climate plan on March 31. It was buried inside his American Jobs Plan. The 12,000-word Fact Sheet about it released by the White House hardly acknowledges the climate emergency. The plan is presented as a jobs through infrastructure program. […]
Population Crisis
Population Crisis QUESTION: Marty, do you think this Deagel forecast for a drop in population that is not explained is just taking your forecast for the conclusion of the Sixth Wave? GB ANSWER: I am not sure what they are referring to or how they arrived at that conclusion. Yes, I have said there remains the risk […]
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process. Doubts at the back of the mind grow. The sense of confusion that things cannot be made to fit […]
With ‘Piecemeal’ Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say
With ‘Piecemeal’ Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say Province’s investments are ‘very, very small compared to the challenges.’ BC’s budget is a ‘missed opportunity to invest in things like a worker transition, electrifying the transportation sector and protecting our strongest environmental assets like old growth forests,’ says Green Leader Sonia Furstenau. This […]
Overshoot Doubt? Chris Clugston Kills It
Overshoot Doubt? Chris Clugston Kills It Thanks to Sam Hopkins for bringing my attention to the work of Chris Clugston. I’m pretty well read in the overshoot space and I thought I knew all the important contributors. Somehow I missed Chris Clugston. Clugston has written two books: Scarcity in 2012, and Blip in 2019. His unique contribution is to research […]
Save Earth Get Rich
Save Earth Get Rich Henri Matisse Flowers 1907I sometimes can’t believe I think I must revisit this theme time and again, but here we are. Joe Biden is chairing a virtual climate plan/summit/whatever, and absolutely nothing has changed since the last time I tried to explain why it is nonsense, or all the other times before that. […]
“Agricultural Disaster” – Frost Blast Decimates French Vineyards, May Slash Total Wine Output By Third
“Agricultural Disaster” – Frost Blast Decimates French Vineyards, May Slash Total Wine Output By Third Earlier this month, French farmers fought mother nature in their attempt to prevent frost from wiping out their crops. It appears their attempts have failed as the damage is extensive and could wipe out nearly a third of French wine output for […]
350 Canada’s “Climate Science Basics” fail the acid test of science reporting excellence
350 Canada’s “Climate Science Basics” fail the acid test of science reporting excellence Its climate crisis assertions border on the fraudulent; they’re “misleading, overly simplistic, and sometimes, factually false.” — No 2723 Posted by fw, March 30, 2021 — On Wednesday April 7, 2021, Amara Possian of 350.org sent an email to followers bearing the Subject line […]
Heat Wave!
Heat Wave! Find your sunglasses. Stock up on sunscreen. And get your shorts and tee shirts out. You will need them. A Northwest spring heatwave is about to begin. The start to spring has been chilly and damp, but that will be a distant memory by this week. Consider the latest ensemble forecast (running the […]
The Wrong Direction: Bright Green Lies
The Wrong Direction: Bright Green Lies THE RECENTLY RELEASED book Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It is designed to disabuse a well-meaning public of the notion that Teslas and wind farms will save the planet. They won’t, say the three coauthors, Derrick Jensen, Lierre […]
The real value of water
The real value of water Valuing Water is the theme of the 29th World Water Day this year. Valuing Water and Enabling Change also happened to be the theme of the Annual Report of the World Economic Forum’s 2030 Water Resources Group (now hosted by the World Bank) last year. Clearly, no one who ever had to go without a glass of water for […]
Where’s Dirk Gently When You Need Him?
Where’s Dirk Gently When You Need Him? Did you hear? A supersized cargo ship got wedged in the Suez Canal on March 23rd? If you didn’t, you must do pretty well at avoiding the news, social media, and late night TV. But the short of it is: the Ever Given somehow lost control (sandstorm strength winds have […]
