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Chaos of Weather Record Heat Wave Coming – Fraud of Linear Predictions
Chaos of Weather Record Heat Wave Coming – Fraud of Linear Predictions This weekend the forecasts are calling for a blistering, dangerous heat wave which is poised to scorch the southeastern U.S. over the Memorial Day weekend. I warned that our computer was showing a sharp increase in volatility in the weather. The winters would […]
Floods And Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet – Could A Global Food Crisis Be Coming?
Floods And Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet – Could A Global Food Crisis Be Coming? It looks like global food production could be well below expectations in 2019, and that could spell big trouble in the months ahead. In recent weeks, I have written extensively about the problems that we have been experiencing […]
We Finally Know Where The Scandalous Ozone-Destroying Chemicals Are Really Coming From
We Finally Know Where The Scandalous Ozone-Destroying Chemicals Are Really Coming From It’s been exactly one year since US scientists reported a mysterious surge in ozone-destroying chemicals, known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Banned in 1987 under the globally signed Montreal Protocol, there was only one explanation: somewhere out there, in an unknown location, someone must have gone rogue, setting […]
Monsanto Spied On Both Sides Of Pesticide Debate In At Least 7 European Nations
Monsanto Spied On Both Sides Of Pesticide Debate In At Least 7 European Nations New details have emerged about the recently revealed dossier(s) Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, compiled to sway public opinion on herbicides. The dossier(s) included people from 7 European states and potentially beyond, according to a new report by RT. Monsanto files reportedly listed prominent public figures who […]
The bioenergy delusion
The bioenergy delusion Replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy only takes us backwards, continuing our addiction to burning and extraction, and causing extensive ecological damage. The bioenergy industry gives the impression of being at the forefront of tackling climate change. Every wood pellet that’s burned communicates the illusion of innovative progress away from fossil fuels and towards […]
Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability
Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability Academic FEDERICO DEMARIA will be addressing staff at the European Commission today in a keynote speech about the crucial issues of economic growth and environmental degradation. He asks, is the well-being of the individual, societies and nations possible beyond economic growth? ‘Growth for the sake of […]
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming Photograph Source: Charles Marion Russell – Public Domain A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article’s premise of impending runaway global warming (“RGW”) is off the mark, by a lot. More to the […]
Failure to Plant Crops
Failure to Plant Crops COMMENT: Good day from Chatham, Ontario Canada (50 miles east of Detroit 42.4048° N, 82.1910° W);Interesting your models are warning of the next year’s results in climate change. Our location is always the first to plant in Canada as it is the same latitude as northern California.A few climate tidbits; – As […]
How Removing Asphalt Is Softening Our Cities
How Removing Asphalt Is Softening Our Cities Greening alleys reclaims public space, reconnects urban dwellers to one another, and invites nature deep into cities. Rachel Schutz hated watching the kids play outside, and not because she was a curmudgeon. As director of an after-school program in a Latino neighborhood near Portland, Oregon, she likes the […]
THE MASSIVE 46 STORY TALL STRUCTURE: The Penasquito Mine Tailings Dam
THE MASSIVE 46 STORY TALL STRUCTURE: The Penasquito Mine Tailings Dam The colossal Penasquito Mine’s tailings dam will reach a stunning height of a 46 story skyscraper over the next decade. That is, if the mine reopens and is allowed to continue business as usual. Newmont-Goldcorp suspended operations at Mexico’s second largest silver mine on […]
WHO’s 2050 Prediction: 10 Million People Could Die from Mutated Superbugs And We’ll Have No Drugs to Fight Them
WHO’s 2050 Prediction: 10 Million People Could Die from Mutated Superbugs And We’ll Have No Drugs to Fight Them The discovery and widespread use of antibiotics many decades ago have saved millions of lives. Infections that were once a death sentence were easily treated with the medications. Unfortunately, many antibiotics are now becoming ineffective because […]
Climate Change was No Accident
Climate Change was No Accident Years ago, tobacco companies discovered the link between their products and lung cancer. Did they warn their customers? No — they denied the link entirely, misleading the public for decades while killing their customers. Similarly, ExxonMobil scientists made startlingly accurate predictionsabout climate change as early as 1982 — and then spent millions […]
The Interlocking Crises: War and Climate Chaos
The Interlocking Crises: War and Climate Chaos U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin Climate change is the apex crisis of all time and the US military is the prime crisis […]
Radioactive ‘Nuclear Coffin’ May Be Leaking Into The Pacific
Radioactive ‘Nuclear Coffin’ May Be Leaking Into The Pacific UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has sounded the alarm over a giant concrete dome built 40 years ago in the Marshall Islands to contain radioactive waste from Cold War-era atomic tests. According to Guterres, the dome – which houses approximately 73,000 cubic meters of debris on Runit island, […]
From despair to repair
From despair to repair I belong to an online climate discussion group that today asked three questions: what is the state of the movement, do we need climate change or system change, and do we need a meta-movement? Keying off the insights from the Earth Repair Conference, I wrote the following – and have added […]
