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Blowout Week 241
Blowout Week 241 This week’s lead story features YouTube, which is fighting what it considers to be the misinformation on videos posted by global warming dissenters with fact-checking boxes (inset), with the data sourced from Wikipedia. We continue with Saudi Arabia’s oil production – is it up or down?; the Saudi/Canada standoff; US LNG and […]
Climate, politics and the narrow vision of futurists
Climate, politics and the narrow vision of futurists Most people know the tale of the blind men and the elephant. Each describes a part of the elephant. The elephant is said to be like a pillar by the blind man touching the elephant’s leg. The one touching the elephant’s tail says the elephant is like […]
Climate Change Bites Big Business
Climate Change Bites Big Business “Electoral politics is not the solution to the Earth-threatening problems we face.” – Jeffrey St. Clair, 10 August 2018, Counter Punch There is now no non-violent way to reverse climate change. Even with morally unrestrained action, it is probable that there is now no physical possibility of reversing climate change. […]
New study on the collapse of Mayan civilization should be climate wake-up call
New study on the collapse of Mayan civilization should be climate wake-up call Under Trump’s policies, the megadrought that devastated the Mayans will become the new normal. MAYAN CIVILIZATION RUINS, QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO, FEBRUARY 2016. CREDIT: DEAGOSTINI/GETTY IMAGES A new study finds that it was a severe and long-lasting megadrought that destroyed the great Mayan […]
Neoliberalism drives climate breakdown, not human nature
Neoliberalism drives climate breakdown, not human nature Attempts by the New York Times to blame humanity as a whole for climate change let the real culprits off the hook. Image: Quarrie Photography, some rights reserved. Many zoos have an exhibit like this: a wall with a hatch, and under the hatch words like “Do you […]
The Healthcare Crisis Behind the Curtain – Are We Importing New Plagues?
The Healthcare Crisis Behind the Curtain – Are We Importing New Plagues? Charles Dickens wrote about how corrupt the courts were out of control in Bleak House published back in 1859. He began in his first chapter on Chancery: “This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in […]
The Lasting Condition: Drought in Australia
The Lasting Condition: Drought in Australia Humans are a funny species. They create settlements along fault lines that, on moving, can create catastrophe, killing thousands. They construct homes facing rivers that will, at some point, break their banks, carrying of their precious property. Importantly, they return in the aftermath. Existence continues. The same follows certain […]
Today we’ve consumed more resources than the planet can renew in a year
Today we’ve consumed more resources than the planet can renew in a year Our economies are operating a giant planetary Ponzi scheme: borrowing far more from the Earth’s ecosystems than they can sustain. Photo by Jenny Tañedo Today is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when we have taken more from nature than it can renew […]
10 Haunting Photos As California’s Largest Wildfire Ever Spirals Out Of Control
10 Haunting Photos As California’s Largest Wildfire Ever Spirals Out Of Control On Monday, the twin fires being treated as one incident north of San Francisco became the largest wildfire in state history, destroying 443 square miles (1,148 square kilometers), nearly the size of the city of Los Angeles and 45% greater than New York […]
In defense of using ‘the new normal’ to describe climate change
WHAT IS NORMAL ANYWAY? In defense of using ‘the new normal’ to describe climate change It’s been an unusual summer, to say the least. Heat maps keep taking on a red-orange glow, with some veering into rare magenta territory. The Carr Fire, one of the most severe in California history, has burned down 1,000 homes […]
Massive “Fire Tornado” Blaze Started By A Flat Tire; White House Declares “Major Disaster” In California
Massive “Fire Tornado” Blaze Started By A Flat Tire; White House Declares “Major Disaster” In California One the most destructive wildfires in California history, the Carr fire, is still raging with only about 40% of it contained while elsewhere in the state, especially in the north, fires continue to expand. Overnight a seventh person was reported […]
Portland, Oregon Wins Court Battle to Ban New Oil Infrastructure
Portland, Oregon Wins Court Battle to Ban New Oil Infrastructure In a big win for the City of Portland, Oregon, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued a ruling that the city had not violated the U.S.Constitution’s Commerce Clause by voting to ban any new fossil fuel terminals within its borders. “This is a major victory for […]
Is the Climate Change Preparation for the Pole Shift?
Is the Climate Change Preparation for the Pole Shift? A reader sent this is where ice storms are happening daily this summer in Calgary, Canada. In Bavaria, where I am currently, it is the hottest in 200 years. The temperature is in the 90s (32c) and hotels, restaurants do not have air conditioning because it […]
CA Wildfire Surges 25% Overnight As Exhausted Firefighters Battle On
CA Wildfire Surges 25% Overnight As Exhausted Firefighters Battle On A rapidly growing wildfire that has forced thousands to evacuate in Northern California surged overnight into Saturday – growing over 25% in size according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). The “Mendocino Complex Fire” which consists of two fires had […]
Time For Some Climate Honesty
kienyke.com Time For Some Climate Honesty Half-truths are doing no good Let’s assume that you have doubts about ‘global warming’. Some people do and, truthfully, we utterly lack the ability to accurately model how much warming will happen, where and by when (emphasis on accurately). The reason is not for lack of trying or continual learning […]
