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New Analysis: Curbing Pesticides Key to Reversing Insect Apocalypse
New Analysis: Curbing Pesticides Key to Reversing Insect Apocalypse More Than 40 Percent of World’s Insect Species on Fast-track to Extinction PORTLAND, Ore.— Authors of a major new scientific review of the catastrophic decline of insects say a “serious reduction in pesticide usage” is key to preventing the extinction of up to 41 percent of the world’s insects […]
Opinion: Green Tech Metals for Renewable Energy and Other Smart Technologies Need to be Sourced Sustainably and Responsibly. Here’s How.
OPINION: GREEN TECH METALS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND OTHER SMART TECHNOLOGIES NEED TO BE SOURCED SUSTAINABLY AND RESPONSIBLY. HERE’S HOW. Climate change solutions — like solar energy, wind energy and electric vehicles — depend on rare earth elements. How we secure those elements matters. Illustration by Sean Quinn February 1, 2019 — The recent Intergovernmental Panel on […]
Climate Misinformation Researchers Throw Support Behind California Communities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies
Climate Misinformation Researchers Throw Support Behind California Communities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Just in case fossil fuel companies had forgotten when and how much they knew about the impacts their products have had on the climate, a reminder came at them in court this week. On January 29, six researchers studying climate misinformation filed one of eight […]
Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union
Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union Tick Tock. The good folks at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientistshave returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California Governor Jerry Brown and former […]
Will BC’s Budding LNG Industry Spark More Quakes and Shake Northeast Housing Prices?
Will BC’s Budding LNG Industry Spark More Quakes and Shake Northeast Housing Prices? Look at Oklahoma as a possible preview of things to come. B.C. Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could barely contain their glee last year when LNG Canada declared its $40-billion Kitimat export terminal and related pipeline were going ahead. But neither […]
Malnutrition, Obesity and Climate Change Threaten Our Future, Warns Report
Malnutrition, Obesity and Climate Change Threaten Our Future, Warns Report Lancet says three threats are interacting to create a dangerous ‘syndemic.’ The Lancet calls it the “Global Syndemic.” The report’s authors say we’re facing three pandemics — undernutrition, obesity and climate change — that are interacting to form a “synergy of epidemics,” or syndemic, and it’s a […]
The Toxic Legacy of Environmental Neoliberalism
The Toxic Legacy of Environmental Neoliberalism A look at Poland’s growing ecological disaster — and its polluted past — shows how green ideals can wither on the vine. At December’s Katowice Climate Change Conference, Polish President Andrzej Duda proudly opened the proceedings by declaring that coal “does not contradict the protection of the climate and the progress […]
Let’s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go?
Let’s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go? Q.I am not giving up … but if I were to move, where in the United States could I go to minimize climate disruption? — Uneasy in a U-Haul A.Dear Uneasy, So you want to escape climate change. That’s a reasonable impulse — climate change […]
Scientists find that we are living through a record-setting ‘period of significant warmth’
Scientists find that we are living through a record-setting ‘period of significant warmth’ We just lived through the 4 hottest years on record, says scientific nonprofit first funded by billionaire polluter Charles Koch. In 2018, a remarkable 29 countries plus Antarctica set individual records for the hottest year ever. Meanwhile, no country saw a record […]
Q&A: How is Arctic warming linked to the ‘polar vortex’ and other extreme weather?
Q&A: How is Arctic warming linked to the ‘polar vortex’ and other extreme weather? The past week has seen some brutal weather hitting the US and Canada. With cold Arctic air plunging south down to the US midwest, six states have seen temperatures lower than the south pole and at least eight people have died due to the extreme […]
CO2 on Track for Largest Rise in 62 Years
CO2 on Track for Largest Rise in 62 Years Around the world, atypical climate change grows increasingly threatening to all life on the planet, principally because of excessive CO2 emissions. Paradoxically, this is happening on the heels of the Paris 2015 climate accord among nations of the world. But, didn’t almost all of the countries […]
Food shocks increase as world warms
Food shocks increase as world warms Overfishing is one of the most serious threats to marine food supplies. Image: By Fabien Bazanegueon Unsplash Heat extremes harm harvests. So do floods, drought and high winds. Climate change spurs food shocks that threaten the supper table. LONDON, 1 February, 2019 − More than ever, the world’s ways of keeping hunger at […]
Professor Jordan on Climate Change – the Reality
Professor Jordan on Climate Change – the Reality
Vaclav Smil. Making the modern world: materials and dematerialization
Vaclav Smil. Making the modern world: materials and dematerialization Preface. I can’t believe I read this book, it is just a long litany of the gigantic amounts of materials we exploit, with no analysis, implications, or the meaning of what impact this will have on the planet. I certainly don’t expect anyone to read even this […]
Climate Collapse: Wind Chill Temperatures Will Hit -60 In The Midwest This Week As Global Weather Patterns Shift
Climate Collapse: Wind Chill Temperatures Will Hit -60 In The Midwest This Week As Global Weather Patterns Shift The experts are telling us that the Midwest could experience the coldest weather that it has ever seen this week. Wind chill temperatures of -40 and -50 degrees will be common throughout the region, and it is […]
