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As Midwest Freezes, Aussie Heatwave Reaches Record Highs
As Midwest Freezes, Aussie Heatwave Reaches Record Highs While Midwest America hunkers down for the coldest temperatures in a generation, temperature records have also tumbled across South Australia, with the city of Adelaide experiencing its hottest day on record. Life-threatening cold is sweeping across Chicago… As Australians face animal culls, mass fish deaths across the nation, roads […]
Germany Plans to Quit Coal by 2038 ‘But There’s a Problem’
Germany Plans to Quit Coal by 2038 ‘But There’s a Problem’ In an effort to fight climate change, Germany announced plans to quit coal mining and burning by 2038. All 84 of the country’s coal-fired power plants will be shut down over the 19-year time frame, a government-appointed commission announced Saturday, according to The Los Angeles Times. It’s a […]
Declare a Green War Now!
Declare a Green War Now! Struggle has brought man into being. Struggle against nature, against other humans, within himself. Today it is no different. The task now set before us is gargantuan transformation. Nothing less is required than changing humanity’s social and economic relationship to the planet. The good news is that more and more […]
Permafrost thaws as global warming sets in
Permafrost thaws as global warming sets in Stone circles caused by permafrost on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Image: By Hannes Grobe, via Wikimedia Commons Global warming is at work far below the surface, at depths seemingly insulated from the greenhouse effect. This is bad news for the permafrost. LONDON, 29 January, 2019 – Even in […]
Climate Change & Commodities
Climate Change & Commodities QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I love the fact that you look at everything from a pure cyclical perspective. Al Gore who started this whole mess was not a climatologist. He was a politician. You are 100% correct that people will believe what they want to believe. There is no talking to one […]
Treading Water
Treading Water Life on the farm has always presented a comforting predictability. A seasonality of changes: winter’s arrival of lambs, marketing of the hogs come spring and fall, the early spring budding of fruits and vines, planting of the first cabbage beginning in late February or early March. We have built our farming practices around […]
Complacency and the Environmental Catastrophe
Complacency and the Environmental Catastrophe Ask any reasonably well-informed person what the cause of climate change is and the chances are they will say greenhouse gas emissions (GGE’s), but they would only be partially correct. While it is true that man-made GGE’s are clogging Earth’s lower atmosphere, trapping heat and resulting in widespread climate change, […]
Deep Freeze: Dangerously Cold Record Low Temps To Hit Chicago, Midwest
Deep Freeze: Dangerously Cold Record Low Temps To Hit Chicago, Midwest It could be warmer above the Arctic Circle than in Chicago by Wednesday, with Bloomberg reporting that temperatures are forecast to fall in the Windy City to 20-to-25 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus-29 to minus-32 Celsius). “That is pretty amazing,” said Brian Hurley, a senior branch […]
Small Laws, Great Crimes: the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act
Small Laws, Great Crimes: the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act It’s been said that small laws breed great crimes. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act is such a law. The crimes committed against the people in its name are legion. But it got even more criminal last week when the Colorado Supreme Court decided the protection […]
Coffee harvests face risk from rising heat
Coffee harvests face risk from rising heat Many millions of people depend on coffee for a living. Image: By Rodrigo Flores on Unsplash Global coffee harvests, which provide the drink of choice for millions and the livelihoods of many more, are in peril, not least from rising temperatures. LONDON, 28 January, 2019 – Coffee drinkers, be warned. A combination of […]
‘Life-Threatening’ Arctic Blast To Freeze Nearly 200 Million As Polar Vortex Slams Midwest
‘Life-Threatening’ Arctic Blast To Freeze Nearly 200 Million As Polar Vortex Slams Midwest A massive blast of Arctic air will hit the Midwest and Northeast by the middle of this week, bringing temperatures to their lowest levels in years. According to the National Weather Service, the hardest hit zone will stretch from Minnesota and Iowa […]
Alberta Is Playing a Dangerous Game with Pipeline Ad Campaign
Alberta Is Playing a Dangerous Game with Pipeline Ad Campaign The anti-BC PR blitz fuels the anger of right-wing groups like the ‘yellow vests.’ A Tyee investigation revealed the expensive details of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s national public relations effort to scapegoat British Columbia, including dubious claims of pipeline benefits translated into Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Filipino and […]
On the Water-Starved Colorado River, Drought Is the New Normal
CRISIS ON THE COLORADO: PART II On the Water-Starved Colorado River, Drought Is the New Normal With the Southwest locked in a 19-year drought and climate change making the region increasingly drier, water managers and users along the Colorado River are facing a troubling question: Are we in a new, more arid era when there […]
Collapse Is Already Here
Collapse Is Already Here It’s a process, not an event. Many people are expecting some degree of approaching collapse — be it economic, environmental and/or societal — thinking that they’ll recognize the danger signs in time. As if it will be completely obvious, like a Hollywood blockbuster. Complete with clear warnings from scientists, politicians and […]
OPINION: WHAT MY MOTHER’S DEATH TAUGHT ME ABOUT SAVING THE PLANET. WE CAN’T, AND HERE’S WHY.
OPINION: WHAT MY MOTHER’S DEATH TAUGHT ME ABOUT SAVING THE PLANET. WE CAN’T, AND HERE’S WHY. As environmentalists, we often refer to our work as “saving the planet.” This is unhelpful for a couple of reasons. Illustration by Sean Quinn January 24, 2019 — As I look back on 2018, the thing I’ll remember most is […]
