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Winter Storm: Northeast Braces For Next Round Of Harsh Weather This Weekend
Winter Storm: Northeast Braces For Next Round Of Harsh Weather This Weekend Just when Zerohedge readers thought it was time for spring, old man winter has a few more tricks up his sleeve. New weather models show several storms will affect the Northeast over the weekend. The storm system that brought severe weather from California to the Midwest is beginning […]
What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows.
What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows. What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows1. Contents Introduction: the resurgence of New Green Deals. Green Deals, Growth and Material Flows Paying for a Green Deal: monetary flows. Introduction: the resurgence of New Green Deals. With increasing […]
State Warning: Catastrophic Volcanic Eruptions In California Are ‘Inevitable’
State Warning: Catastrophic Volcanic Eruptions In California Are ‘Inevitable’ The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has warned that California’s next big catastrophe might not be a massive earthquake. Instead, they say a massive volcanic eruption could plunge the state into a post-apocalyptic hellscape. In a report released on Monday, the USGS said that at least 10 volcanic eruptionshave taken […]
Here’s how Britain’s changing weather is affecting wildlife
Here’s how Britain’s changing weather is affecting wildlife The Beast from the East, a polar vortex which brought freezing conditions to the UK, arrived on February 26 2018. Two days later there was a minimum temperature of -11.7°C (10.9˚F) at South Farnborough in Hampshire, and a maximum of only -4.8°C (23.4˚F) at Spadeadam in Cumbria. In […]
Another Oil Train Crashes as Alberta Government Gets Into Oil-by-Rail Business
Another Oil Train Crashes as Alberta Government Gets Into Oil-by-Rail Business The government of Alberta, Canada, the heart of tar sands country, recently announced plans to get into the oil-by-rail business. Attempting to work around a lack of pipelines, the provincial government intends to spend $3.7 billion to lease 4,400 oil tank cars and locomotives to export more Canadian tar […]
Game Over? Report Card on Our Planet’s Environment
Game Over? Report Card on Our Planet’s Environment The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report for 2019 indicates that most experts point to environmental problems as being the most serious threats to global stability—just as they found in the previous two years. That report follows on one in October 2018 by the UN Intergovernmental Panel […]
Yes, The Paris Climate Agreement Sucks
Yes, The Paris Climate Agreement Sucks Image Created by L.tak The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 was a big deal as 195 nations agreed to take steps to mitigate global temperatures to +2°C, but preferably +1.5°C, post-industrial or over the past 250 years. When temperatures exceed those levels, all hell breaks loose with our precious […]
Of Insects and Men
Of Insects and Men Photo by John Severns – Source Wikimedia Commons Invisible denizens — everywhere Insects are all over the world – in and over the waters at the edge of the seas, in and over the waters of lakes, rivers and creeks and swamps and irrigation ditches. They thrive in the forests, mountains, […]
Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Crisis Has Now Reached ‘Gold Standard’-Level Certainty, Scientists Say
Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Crisis Has Now Reached ‘Gold Standard’-Level Certainty, Scientists Say “There’s a one-in-a-million chance humans are NOT warming the planet. A new report offers “gold standard”-level certainty that humans are contributing to the climate crisis, leading to rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and extreme weather events. (Photo: Christopher Michel/Flickr/cc) Most Americans now recognize […]
World may hit 56m year carbon level by 2159
World may hit 56m year carbon level by 2159 Next stop the Pole? Crocodiles were once common in Arctic waters. Image: By Balaji Malliswamy on Unsplash Long ago the polar ice vanished and tropical animals swam the Arctic. Greenhouse gases could reach that 56m year carbon level again in 140 years. LONDON, 26 February, 2019 – Humankind could be about […]
Is this the Coldest Winter in 83 years?
Is this the Coldest Winter in 83 years? Vancouver, where it rarely snows, has had five snow storms this year. It has even been reported that snow has fallen in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Now that is an extremely rare event by itself in addition to Vancouver. The winter cold has been severe this […]
‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts words to a future you don’t want to live in
‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts words to a future you don’t want to live in Prepare yourself for grisly descriptions of how the body breaks down in overwhelming heat, predictions of prehistoric plagues springing back to life beneath melting permafrost, and the possibility of an economic collapse several times worse than the Great Depression. David Wallace-Wells’ […]
Global Warming’s Monster Awakens
Global Warming’s Monster Awakens The planet’s biggest nightmare is coming to life. It may be a bigger threat much sooner than ever before realized simply because it’s accelerating! East Antarctica, the world’s largest body of water trapped in ice, is knocking the socks off expectations. Along the way, it’s the world’s most horrifying surprise, yet […]
Cities muscle up
Cities muscle up Action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and to tackle climate change can be organised more rapidly and have greater impact when it’s taken at the local level. Communities are urging their elected officials on municipal councils to introduce and implement measures to transition to renewable sources of energy, curb emissions of […]
