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Drill, Baby, Drill: The U.S. Added 38 Percent More Oil and Gas Rigs Last Year
Drill, Baby, Drill: The U.S. Added 38 Percent More Oil and Gas Rigs Last Year Burn, baby, burn: Experts express fear about the enormous climate impact of this boom in new fossil fuel development. The number of oil and gas rigs in the United States has increased an astonishing 38 percent over the past year. […]
Devil’s Bargain
Devil’s Bargain We already have planet-cooling technology. The problem is, it’s killing us. A trope of sci-fi movies these days, from Snowpiercer to Geostorm, is that our failure to tackle climate change will eventually force us to deploy an arsenal of unproven technologies to save the planet. Think sun-deflecting space mirrors or chemically altered clouds. […]
The 11 Cities Most Likely To Run Out Of Drinking Water
The 11 Cities Most Likely To Run Out Of Drinking Water As of Sunday afternoon, the dreaded “day zero” – the day residents of the city of Cape Town, South Africa, will need to begin queuing for drinking water after supplies sink below the threshold of sustainability – was estimated to be Nov. 11, 2018. […]
How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims Much of the public discussion about climate science consists of a stream of assertions. The climate is changing or it isn’t; carbon dioxide causes global warming or it doesn’t; humans are partly responsible or they are not; scientists have a rigorous process of peer review […]
Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.
Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself. From Salt Bae, via Facebook I’m a permaculture farmer. My goal is to develop natural ecosystems that produce food. My dream is a world with ready access to a diet that nourishes the body of the consumer, provides a living for the producer, and […]
Blowout Week 215
Blowout Week 215 This week’s lead story highlights the perils of basing policy decisions on speculative computer models. It seems that the ozone layer isn’t healing as predicted after all, so the dangers of man-made CFC radiation are still with us. And if radiation doesn’t do the job other computer models now tell us that […]
Long-term climate variability ‘could fall’ as the world warms
Long-term climate variability ‘could fall’ as the world warms Long-term climate variability is the range of temperatures and weather patterns experienced by the Earth over a scale of thousands of years. New research suggests it could fall as the world warms. A study using data taken from fossils and ice cores finds that long-term temperature […]
America Dumps Its Fracking Waste in My Ohio Town
America Dumps Its Fracking Waste in My Ohio Town My southeastern Ohio town in the Appalachian foothills is a small, rural place where the demolition derby is a hot ticket, Walmart is the biggest store, and people in the surrounding villages must often drive for 30 minutes to grocery shop. We hold the unfortunate distinction of being […]
EPA head Scott Pruitt says global warming may help ‘humans flourish’
EPA head Scott Pruitt says global warming may help ‘humans flourish’ EPA administrator says ‘There are assumptions made that because the climate is warming that necessarily is a bad thing’ Scott Pruitt: ‘It’s fairly arrogant for us to think we know exactly what [the ideal surface temperature] should be in 2100.’ Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA Scott […]
Worst Drought in Capetown in 112 Years – Part of the Cycle
Worst Drought in Capetown in 112 Years – Part of the Cycle QUESTION: Marty, Any thoughts/comments regarding the impending water shortage in Capetown? As a person who has much historical knowledge, are you aware of a major city such as Capetown ever running out of water? Or is this truly a historical first? Love your blog […]
Is it possible for everyone to live a good life within our planet’s limits?
Is it possible for everyone to live a good life within our planet’s limits? Imagine a country that met the basic needs of its citizens – one where everyone could expect to live a long, healthy, happy and prosperous life. Now imagine that same country was able to do this while using natural resources at a […]
This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells
This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells If you’d met John Werring four years ago, he wouldn’t have been able to tell you what an abandoned gas well looked like. “We had no idea whether they were even accessible,” said the registered professional biologist. That was before the summer of 2014, […]
Before climate change: Falling rocks set fire to 10% of land, trigger mini ice age for 1000 years
Before climate change: Falling rocks set fire to 10% of land, trigger mini ice age for 1000 years Another day, another apocalypse. Life in a perfect climate Poor sods. After 90,000 dismal cold years things were finally just warming up when a bunch of comet fragments from a a 62 mile-wide comet, crashed into our […]
