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Sierra Nevada Snowpack On Track To Collapse 79%, New Study Warns
Sierra Nevada Snowpack On Track To Collapse 79%, New Study Warns A new report by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) examined the headwater regions of California’s ten major reservoirs, representing half of the state’s surface storage, discovered each could experience a 79% decline in peak snowpack water volume by 2100. Berkeley Lab used supercomputers to investigate current warming […]
Five (More) Things You Can do Now to Address Climate Change
Five (More) Things You Can do Now to Address Climate Change Recycle. Eat less meat. Buy electric cars. Have fewer kids. Reduce consumption. Install solar panels on your home. These are just a few of the (primarily middle-class oriented) ideas that the media have offered over the last year to help you figure out “what […]
Ecocide as Creative Destruction
Ecocide as Creative Destruction According to the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), since 1970 60% of the mammals, birds, fish and reptiles on the planet have been driven to extinction. To the extent that the WWF has it right, climate change accounts for less than 10% of these losses (graph below). As important and logistically complex […]
Groomed to Consume
Groomed to Consume With Christmas coming up, household consumption will soon hit its yearly peak in many countries. Despite homely pictures of tranquility on mass-produced greeting cards, Christmas is more about frenzied shopping and overspending than peace on earth or quality time with family and friends. As with so much of our lives, the holidays […]
The Flight from Nature
The Flight from Nature A couple of weeks ago one of my readers pointed me to an op-ed piece on climate change by Canadian journalist David Moscrop, titled “It’s time for climate change defeatists to get out of the way.” If you’ve watched the slow-motion train wreck of climate change activism for more than a […]
The end of the Little Ice Age
The end of the Little Ice Age The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a recent and significant climate perturbation that may still be affecting the Earth’s climate, but nobody knows what caused it. In this post I look into the question of why it ended when it did, concentrating on the European Alps, without greatly […]
California’s Next Calamity: Storms Compounded By High Tides
California’s Next Calamity: Storms Compounded By High Tides The wildfires that have taken their toll on California could be just the beginning of the state’s calamities. Now, the high tides of winter are coming and if those tides are worsened by an incoming storm, they could devastate entire cities on the coasts. On December 10, […]
Developing Country Issues at COP24 … and a Bit of Good News for Solar Power and Carbon Capture
Developing Country Issues at COP24 … and a Bit of Good News for Solar Power and Carbon Capture Photo Source Doman84 | CC BY 2.0 We humans are an interesting species … instead of seeing eye-to-eye, we are inclined to see eye-to-nose. We focus on the present and ourselves, particularly where our comfort is concerned, no […]
Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change?
Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change? Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth survived an existential climate crisis. But that Earth had a distinct advantage. No rich. We either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or all of us are going to fry. So essentially posits still another new blockbuster study on climate […]
U.S. Groundwater in Peril: Potable Supply Less Than Thought
A groundwater well near Estancia, New Mexico. (Photo: Debra Perrone) U.S. Groundwater in Peril: Potable Supply Less Than Thought Drilling deeper wells may not be a good long-term solution to compensate for increasing demands on groundwater, report UA hydrologist Jennifer McIntosh and colleagues. The U.S. groundwater supply is smaller than originally thought, according to a […]
The Impact of OPEC on Climate Change
The Impact of OPEC on Climate Change It is accepted that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a cartel that restrains oil production and keeps prices higher than they would otherwise be. Indeed, this is the premise behind the “OPEC Accountability Act of 2018” in the US Senate. This bill would address […]
Where No Corn Has Grown Before: Better Living Through Climate Change?
Where No Corn Has Grown Before: Better Living Through Climate Change? Photo Source Phil Roeder | CC BY 2.0 The growing season used to be too short to grow corn in Alberta. That’s no longer true, according to a front page story in the November 26 Wall Street Journal: “Warming Climate Pushes Corn North.” Thanks […]
From Obama to Trump, Climate Negotiations are Being Run by the Same Crew of American Technocrats
FROM OBAMA TO TRUMP, CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS ARE BEING RUN BY THE SAME CREW OF AMERICAN TECHNOCRATS ON MONDAY, THE Trump administration hosted an event on behalf of the fossil fuel industry at the United Nations climate talks in Poland, known as COP24. It was almost identical to the one it hosted at last year’s climate […]
