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With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival
With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival This week, scientists and representatives from every country on Earth are gathering in South Korea to put the finishing touches on a report that, if followed, would change the course of history. The report is a roadmap for possible ways to keep climate […]
Help Stop Radioactive Waste Dump and Thousands of Dangerous Shipments Across the US
Help Stop Radioactive Waste Dump and Thousands of Dangerous Shipments Across the US The private company Waste Control Specialists (WCS) or “Interim Storage Partners” wants to place a high-level radioactive waste dump site (called a “centralized interim storage facility”) in West Texas. If approved, opening this high-level waste dump would launch nation-wide transports of a […]
Clavichords and Climate Change
Clavichords and Climate Change Bainbridge Island, Washington. The Cascade Mountains were dusted with snow this week, less a harbinger of the coming winter than of ominous larger changes in the climate. According to many, the snow came “too early,” especially considering the apocalyptic smoke from the fires of summer just gone. The Washington of my […]
Drought-Laden Rainforests
Drought-Laden Rainforests Photo Source Mike Goren | CC BY 2.0 The world’s rainforests are under attack at a rate of 2.5 acres per second. Global warming and clear-cutting for growing palm oil and raising cattle are some of the biggest annihilators. The repercussions are devastating. For example, one of the consequences is harmful alteration of […]
Is Global Warming A Significant Contributor to Washington State Wildfires, Now or in the Future?
Is Global Warming A Significant Contributor to Washington State Wildfires, Now or in the Future? During the past several summers there have been major wildfires in Washington State producing a lot of smoke. And many people have been asking an important question: To what degree is anthropogenic global warming contributing to Washington State wildfires? […]
LNG Canada project called a ‘tax giveaway’ as B.C. approves massive subsidies
Canada and British Columbia have put “the right fiscal framework” in place for LNG Canada to go ahead, according to Shell. What that means is more than $5 billion in subsidies. Photo: Province of British Columbia / Flickr LNG Canada project called a ‘tax giveaway’ as B.C. approves massive subsidies Fracked gas export project will […]
How to communicate the climate emergency
How to communicate the climate emergency Download guide as PDF What are effective ways of engaging people in conversation about the gathering climate crisis and the need for an emergency response? Let’s start with some key content: 1. Urgency and courage The Earth is already too hot: we are in danger now, not just […]
A Child at World’s End
A Child at World’s End “I don’t want to live in a world without cheetahs, Mom.” Seamus loves cheetahs and what’s not to love — unless you are a Thomson’s gazelle? Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on the planet, formidable predators, sleek, saucy looking, and they even have spots. My six-year-old boy can’t imagine a […]
Charting a Jagged Course Through the Apocalypse
Charting a Jagged Course Through the Apocalypse Photo Source NASA’s Earth Observatory | CC BY 2.0 “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop” -Economist Herbert Stein Those who live in the reaches of the Arctic Circle tend to convey the same humbling lesson: Mother Nature calls the shots and survival depends upon preparing […]
The Trump administration knows the planet is going to boil. It doesn’t care
The Trump administration knows the planet is going to boil. It doesn’t care Trump’s team used last week to sneak in disastrous, linked policies on climate change and child refugee camps The Trump years are a fantasy land where we pretend we can go on living precisely as in the past, unwilling even to substitute […]
Paying the True Costs of Living
Paying the True Costs of Living We’re in trouble. We as in the people of the Earth, which is all the people there are, notwithstanding theories of extraterrestrials munching their popcorn equivalents while watching us flail about. Our planet is only so big and has only so much in the way of natural resources to offer […]
South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change
South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change South Carolina was spared the worst of Hurricane Florence’s fury when the storm made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, but did not escape its catastrophic impacts. Nearly two weeks later, the state was still contending with historic flooding. Flooded house in Socastee, […]
Chemical Deceit
Chemical Deceit Photo Source CGP Grey | CC BY 2.0 www.CGPGrey.com A friend recently put me in touch with Janet Brown (not her real name). This is a woman from Chicago who had the misfortune of renting an apartment that had been sprayed with the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Dow/DuPont produces this deleterious substance. In late […]
Solar Minimum – Biggest Decline Maybe Ever
Solar Minimum – Biggest Decline Maybe Ever The sun is entering perhaps one of the deepest Solar Minima in thousands of years. Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018. This is really alarming. Since the start of 2018, there have been totally spotless days for weeks. The sun’s ultraviolet output has sharply declined and […]
U.S. government embraces climate catastrophe, but is it a ‘crisis’?
U.S. government embraces climate catastrophe, but is it a ‘crisis’? The United States government has now officially embraced climate change as a catastrophe in the making. Only it contends that the catastrophe is now inevitable no matter what humans do…and so, we should do nothing at all since whatever we do won’t matter much. That, […]
