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Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See
Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See “The decision to release this damning report when families are beginning to celebrate the holidays and newsrooms are short-staffed is a brazen attempt to bury the truth.” A house burns during the Woolsey Fire on November 9, 2018 in Malibu, California. […]
Coldest Thanksgiving In 150 Years As Northeast Hit By “Siberian” Temperatures
Coldest Thanksgiving In 150 Years As Northeast Hit By “Siberian” Temperatures Most of the Northeastern United States feels like Siberia right now due to a blast of Arctic air that is pushing temperatures 15 to 25 degrees colder below trend. As a result, people spending time outdoors during Thanksgiving Day into Black Friday may face some of the coldest […]
Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works
Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works Errors in a recent ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay evidence for human-caused climate change. The study by researchers from the U.S., China, France and Germany concluded, “ocean warming […]
My Top 10 Books That Inspired Our Project
MY TOP 10 BOOKS THAT INSPIRED OUR PROJECT At the beginning of 2017 Permanent Publications sent us an email expressing an interest to publish a book on our polyculture trials and experiences. I’d been thinking about writing this book for some time and responded with gleeful enthusiasm. I’m happy to announce that we have signed the publishing […]
Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action across the UK as protesters demanded the government treat the threats posed by climate change as a crisis and take drastic steps to cut emissions to net zero […]
The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know
The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know It is widely agreed that today’s global agriculture system is a social and environmental failure. Business as usual is no longer an option: biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution are exceeding planetary limits, and catastrophic risks of climate change demand immediate action. Most concede that […]
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch Photo Source Gunvor Røkke | CC BY 2.0 “As soon as you are a scientist … you take a political side [because] you must necessarily choose to ask only certain questions. Many scientists … produce risk assessment for forest management [which] asks ‘how much can we cut, graze, salvage, spray, […]
Predicting the next global pandemic
Predicting the next global pandemic The nature and likelihood of the next pandemic presents many challenges to governments and health organisations, as it could be an unknown pathogen that the world is ill-equipped to contain. The risks associated with such a pandemic has secondary effects as it not only affects human health, but also causes […]
Debunking One “Global Cooling” Argument
Debunking One “Global Cooling” Argument Preface: Our approach is to build bridges in the climate debate (see the postscript, below). But one of our duties as investigative journalists is to debunk unscientific claims, from whichever side they come from. This article helps to debunk one particular recent claim about global cooling. Numerous websites have claimed […]
‘Time is Running Out,’ American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
‘Time is Running Out,’ American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change The warning is clear and dire — and the source unexpected. “This report unquestionably will fan emotions, raise fears, and bring demand for action,” the president of the American Petroleum Institute (API) told an oil industry conference, as he described […]
Scott Tinker: Can The World Energy Supply Become Fully Sustainable?
Scott Tinker: Can The World Energy Supply Become Fully Sustainable? Just possibly, but we’ll have to make HUGE changes As we claim often here at PeakProsperity.com: Energy is everything. Will our global society be able to transtiton off of its extreme dependence on fossil fuels? And if so, can we do so without too much […]
How to save the world from climate catastrophe – the IRENA study
How to save the world from climate catastrophe – the IRENA study IRENA, the International Renewable Agency, has just published a study showing how the world can meet the not-to-exceed-2°C emissions goal set by the Paris Agreement. It’s not a 100% renewables study – it still includes a little oil, gas and nuclear – but […]
Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming: Review
Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming: Review Drawdown was a major collaborative effort involving 70 research fellows from 40 countries. It’s not so much a cohesive plan as a list of partial solutions: 80 that are tested and in use at least somewhere in the world, and another 20 that […]
