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Humanity’s WIPEOUT Foreshadowed? World Health Chief: Global Pandemic Imminent
Humanity’s WIPEOUT Foreshadowed? World Health Chief: Global Pandemic Imminent According to a World Health Organization doctor, a global pandemic is imminent, and no one will be prepared for it when it hits. Dr. Tedros Adhanom, director-general for WHO, has said that the next outbreak that will hit us will be a “terrible” one, causing a large death […]
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke Trees are dying at unprecedented rates. Can we rethink conservation before it’s too late? Each year, the Earth’s trees suck more than a hundred billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That’s an impossibly huge number to consider, about 60 times the weight of all the humans currently on the planet. […]
Fixing Global Warming is Bigger Than Paris ‘15
Fixing Global Warming is Bigger Than Paris ‘15 Photo by NOAA Photo Library | CC BY 2.0 The worldwide effort to harness, slow down, lessen, reduce, remove the threat of global warming is epitomized by the Paris ’15 climate accord. This agreement calls for nations of the world to implement plans to slow down greenhouse […]
Pollution, Invasive Aliens, & Mass Extinction: 20,000 Scientists ‘Warn Humanity’ The End Is Nigh
Pollution, Invasive Aliens, & Mass Extinction: 20,000 Scientists ‘Warn Humanity’ The End Is Nigh A wave of nationalist/populist/anti-globalization, record high debt, nuclear doomsday clock at its highs, soaring financial leverage, and now trade wars. If the world did not have enough to worry about, 20,000 scientists have a few more reasons to believe ‘the end […]
A Dire Warning From The “Doomsday Vault”
A Dire Warning From The “Doomsday Vault” Climate change alarmists are taking full advantage of the “Sudden Stratospheric Warming” (SSW) event, which occurred above the Arctic in mid-February, as further evidence that the world’s unpredictable and sometimes chaotic weather is jeopardizing humanity’s food security. The split of the polar vortex, otherwise known as an SSW event, shifted […]
Beyond Supply and Demand: The Dynamic Equilibrium Between Global Thresholds and Allocations
Beyond Supply and Demand: The Dynamic Equilibrium Between Global Thresholds and Allocations As a monetary adviser, I spent many years questioning bankers on the authenticity of their balances sheets. What stood out most for me in these discussions was this: the social demand for commodities is often claimed by banks as having a direct link with the ecological […]
Spooked by Quakes, Oklahoma Toughens Fracking Rules
Spooked by Quakes, Oklahoma Toughens Fracking Rules Canadian regulators stick with less stringent regulations despite growing risks from mega-fracking. Across North America, fracking-caused earthquakes have led to public concern and protests. Photo by ProgressOhio, Creative Commons licensed. After swarms of earthquakes caused by hydraulic fracturing, Oklahoma has introduced tougher regulations than those used by any […]
Fukushima: A Human-Made Disaster Brought on by Bad Faith
Fukushima: A Human-Made Disaster Brought on by Bad Faith “Nearly seven years after the triple reactor meltdowns, this unique nuclear crisis is still underway,” Greenpeace International’s Shaun Burnie wrote in a blogpost last December. The word “unique” is an understatement but true. The March 11, 2011meltdowns are the world’s first combined earthquake-tsunami-reactor catastrophe. Moreover, while […]
China Reports Outbreak Of Highly Contagious Bird Flu
China Reports Outbreak Of Highly Contagious Bird Flu A dangerous strain of bird flu that has been circulating in 2013 could be on the verge of snowballing into a global pandemic. The Paris-based Organization for Animal Health said Wednesday that a farm in Shaanxi province has reported an outbreak of a highly dangerous pathogen, while […]
Getting Past Trump: This Is How Democracies Die (Part 1)
Getting Past Trump: This Is How Democracies Die (Part 1) Ed note: This piece is part of a 3-part series. Part 1 is also cross-posted on Truthout. Donald Trump’s 13-month tenure (so far) as president of the United States has been an exhausting sprint for onlookers concerned about the state of the global ecosystem and […]
Global CO2 emissions forecast to 2100
Global CO2 emissions forecast to 2100 In his recent post Euan Mearns projected global energy requirements out to 2100. In this brief post I apply Euan’s methodology to carbon dioxide emissions, which are closely correlated with energy consumption. The projections show CO2 emissions peaking around 2075 under the UN low population growth scenario but continuing […]
Canada Covering Up Global Warming Nuts Destroying the Water Supply
Canada Covering Up Global Warming Nuts Destroying the Water Supply COMMENT: When Government turns on its own citizens. Good day, Martin; This climate change movement here in Ontario, Canada has gone too far. Construction of windmills in a small farming area has contaminated 16 residential water wells with that destroyed the pumps and piping that feed […]
Climate Change – Catastrophic or Linear Slow Progression?
Climate Change – Catastrophic or Linear Slow Progression? Indeed, science was turned on its head after a discovery in 1772 near Vilui, Siberia, of an intact frozen woolly rhinoceros, which was followed by the more famous discovery of a frozen mammoth in 1787. You may be shocked, but these discoveries of frozen animals with grass […]
Can we cure the global eating disorder?
Can we cure the global eating disorder? We stayed overnight in Dodson, Montana in a charming Bed and Breakfast owned and managed by Sandra Calk. At breakfast we got a peep view into her fridge. There were fruit and vegetables, cheeses, juices, marmalade, honey pickles, condiments and everlasting tortillas. There were eggs and rhubarb from […]
