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Methane and climate: 10 things you should know
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know The graph above shows methane concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere over the past 10,000+ years: 8000 BCE to 2018 CE. The units are parts per billion (ppb). The year 1800 is marked with a circle. Note the ominous spike. As a result of increasing human-caused emissions, atmospheric methane […]
Climate Change: What About the Marxists?
Climate Change: What About the Marxists? Photo Source Akuppa John Wigham | CC BY 2.0 Author John Steinbeck in 1962 asked, “Why must progress look so much like destruction?” (1) In fact, ever-expanding production of things – progress, in other words – promotes destruction in the form of climate change. Perpetrators of boundless production dominate […]
Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To “Dangerous” Low Levels
Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To “Dangerous” Low Levels The worst drought in years in the western half of the United States has sparked hundreds of wildfires, has crippled thousands of farms, and has produced what could ultimately be the worst water crisis […]
Old TV Broadcast That Warns Of The End Of Civilization In 2040 Found As The Elite Warn Earth’s Landscape “Set to Undergo Major Transformation”
Old TV Broadcast That Warns Of The End Of Civilization In 2040 Found As The Elite Warn Earth’s Landscape “Set to Undergo Major Transformation” An old television broadcast from 1973 has been discovered that warns that things will start getting really bad on this planet around the year 2020 and that our current civilization will […]
Japan Paralyzed After Strongest Typhoon In 25 Years Makes Landfall, Killing 8
Japan Paralyzed After Strongest Typhoon In 25 Years Makes Landfall, Killing 8 Typhoon Jebi struck the heart of one of Japan’s largest metro areas on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and shutting down Osaka’s main international airport indefinitely, leaving close to 3,000 people trapped inside. The storm – the strongest on earth so far […]
Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec?
Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec? The question of how the Canadian provinces should deal with the issue of greenhouse gas emissions continues to be contentious and occasionally acrimonious. The new provincial government of Ontario has declared its intention to cancel that province’s cap-and-trade system—referring to it as “a punishing, regressive tax that forces low-and […]
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Two of Four)
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Two of Four) The last post introduced this weird and possibly confusing little diagram:1 The diagram frames a pathway from more conventional design processes toward what I believe permaculture is deep down really about. The conventional starting point I’m calling fabricated assembly. The radical alternative the diagram […]
A Pyrrhic Climate
A Pyrrhic Climate What does it mean to fight and win an impossible war? Battle of Chancellorsville, by Kurz and Allison, 1889 Arecent debate in twitter’s climate community illuminated a schism between those arguing that mitigating climate change is impossible and those exhorting others to continue to “fight” climate change. While the debate yielded no […]
Culture and Behavior May Clue Climate Change Response
Culture and Behavior May Clue Climate Change Response Photo Source Dan Costin | CC BY 2.0 Behavior acculturated to ancestral norms, originally necessitated by occupation, is the focus of a new study in China with interesting ramifications for climate change. In general, farming requires more stable relationships than, say, herding with the constant movement of animals. Now the […]
Chemically Induced Frankenstein-Humans
Chemically Induced Frankenstein-Humans Photo Source CGP Grey | www.CGPGrey.com One of the biggest open questions of this century is whether 144,000 different chemicals swirling throughout the world are properly tested and analyzed for toxicity. By almost all accounts, the scale of toxic risk is unknown. This may be the biggest tragedy of all time, a […]
The Upside Of ‘Global Warming’
The Upside Of ‘Global Warming’ An interview from the Russian Ministry for Maritime and River Transport published on website PortNews says that Arctic ports along the Northern Sea Route are experiencing a surge in cargo. Up to August 24th of this year, 9.95 million tons of goods went through ports in the region, an 81 […]
Tropical Cyclone Threatens South Florida, Takes Aim At Gulf Coast
Tropical Cyclone Threatens South Florida, Takes Aim At Gulf Coast “Tropical Storm Gordon formed over the Florida Keys Monday morning and is poised to bring very heavy rainfall to south Florida on this Labor Day. As Gordon pushes into the Gulf of Mexico this week, it will interact with anomalously warm waters as it churns […]
Climate change, water and the infrastructure problem
Climate change, water and the infrastructure problem I was watching an episode of the science-fiction noir thriller “The Expanse” recently. Set hundreds of years in the future, the United Nations has now become the world government and its main rival is Mars, a former Earth colony. The UN is still in New York City and […]
Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History
Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History We will continue to reclaim citizens’ rights, as well as those of small and medium producers, who, despite being crushed by the current market mechanisms, are the only ones providing us with healthy and nutritious food “According to Reuters, the number of lawsuits brought against Bayer’s […]
Earth’s ‘Big Freeze’ Approaches As Sun Remains Devoid Of Sunspots For Most Of 2018
Earth’s ‘Big Freeze’ Approaches As Sun Remains Devoid Of Sunspots For Most Of 2018 Scientists believe that Earth could experience a “big freeze” as the sun goes through what’s known as “solar minimum.” During this time, sunspots are minimal and the globe could be in for a wicked cold snap. Scientists are reporting that the […]
