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Unstable Planet: Anchorage, Alaska Is Devastated By A Giant 7.0 Earthquake – Is The West Coast Next?
Unstable Planet: Anchorage, Alaska Is Devastated By A Giant 7.0 Earthquake – Is The West Coast Next? We just got more evidence that our planet is becoming increasingly unstable. On Friday a magnitude 7.0 earthquake destroyed homes, ripped apart roads and destroyed infrastructure all throughout Anchorage, Alaska. According to the USGS, the earthquake hit at […]
Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch
Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee, based in part on research the institute conducted in the 1950s. “The substance of the report is that there is still […]
We broke down what climate change will do, region by region
Grist / Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images We broke down what climate change will do, region by region Yeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don’t have to. Look, at this point, even the most stubborn among us know that climate change is coming for our asses. We really don’t […]
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power”
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power” In my Nov. 16 column, I reported on potential radiation risks posed by California’s Woolsey wildfire having burned over parts or all of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory—south of Simi Valley, Calif., 30 […]
The End of Illusion
The End of Illusion Photo Source Christopher Michel | CC BY 2.0 The following is the Epilogue from Jeffrey St. Clair’s and Joshua Frank’s new book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink, available now from CounterPunch Books. In the spring of 2017, the carbon dioxide readings at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai’i cracked […]
Scientists: Weak Ocean Circulation Could Signify Incoming Mini Ice Age
Scientists: Weak Ocean Circulation Could Signify Incoming Mini Ice Age A weak circulation of ocean waters in the North Atlantic could signify that a mini ice age is just around the corner. Scientists have discovered the weakening currents look similar to those that happened right before the Little Ice Age, a cold spell observed between about […]
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal Nearly a decade ago, in late 2009, a server at the University of East Anglia was hacked and thousands of emails from the university’s Climatic Research Unit were subsequently released in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate talks. Within these […]
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy Photo Source Andy Powell | CC BY 2.0 Oligarchy is bad for children’s health All past civilizations protected children. It was self-evident that healthy children assured continuity, security and happiness. However, machine-powered civilizations give the illusion corporations, oligarchies, and the government control everything. Children fade in this confused […]
Humanity is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, Not ‘Capitalism’
Humanity is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, Not ‘Capitalism’ Photo Source N i c o l a | CC BY 2.0 Cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover But what he saw made him start to cringe and stutter Cause he was starring into the eyes of his own mother — […]
Global Cooling – not Global Warming, that we should Fear the Most.
Global Cooling – not Global Warming, that we should Fear the Most. It is incredibly important to understand that as the weather turns bitterly cold in the north, people will begin to migrate south. This not merely caused the ancient Greeks to become the Sea Peoples, but also during the Year without a Summer in […]
Weather Channel: “It’s Been One Of The Most Miserable Starts To Winter On Record”
Weather Channel: “It’s Been One Of The Most Miserable Starts To Winter On Record” Across the Northeast, Midwest, and Plains, it has been one of the coldest and snowiest starts to the winter season on record. “Winter has gotten off to a fast start across a majority of the United States, particularly across the Northeast. Early season […]
Highest Greenhouse Gasses in Millions of Years
Highest Greenhouse Gasses in Millions of Years Atmospheric greenhouse gasses absorb infrared radiation from the sun, releasing it, including the sun’s heat. As natural and man-made greenhouse gasses increase, more heat is retained in the atmosphere instead of escaping into space. Heating the earth is called the greenhouse effect – from water vapor, carbon dioxide, […]
Polish Government Issues Terrorism Alert in Katowice Days Before Start of UN Climate Talks
Polish Government Issues Terrorism Alert in Katowice Days Before Start of UN Climate Talks The Polish government has implemented a terrorism alert in the province where the annual UN climate talks are about to start. Climate campaigners are warning of a “tense atmosphere” in and around the city of Katowice in southern Poland, where the global climate negotiations, […]
Scientists Want to Synthetically Create a Volcanic Winter – Are they Just Nuts?
Scientists Want to Synthetically Create a Volcanic Winter – Are they Just Nuts? Believe it or not, pretend Scientists are actuall proposing to create a synthetic Volcanic Winter by spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth’s atmosphere the same as a volcanoe when it erupts. These pretend research scientists at Harvard and Yale universities have published in […]
Saving the Environment: Is Degrowthing the Answer?
Saving the Environment: Is Degrowthing the Answer? Photo Source Anahi Patricia Jasso Aleman | CC BY 2.0 A friend recently sent me a piece by Jason Hickel, arguing that growth can’t be green and that we need to move away from growth oriented economics. I am not convinced. It strikes me both that the piece misrepresents what growth […]
