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Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis With the release of leaked documents from the TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) ‘trade’ deal Greenpeace framed its conclusions more diplomatically than I will: the actions of the U.S. political leadership undertaken at the behest of American corporate ‘leaders’ and their masters in the capitalist class make it among the […]
Shock impacts hit Greenland’s ice
Shock impacts hit Greenland’s ice An aerial view of icebergs floating in Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord. Image: Mark Garten/UN Photo New research indicates that melting of the Northern Hemisphere’s biggest ice sheet is being accelerated by the seismic impact of waves crashing against Greenland’s coastline. LONDON, 14 May, 2016 – Seismic waves that race through Greenland’s bedrock may […]
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year to 2 a day. Is the expansion of gas and oil exploration during that same period of time a […]
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing. After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in 2012, Bloomberg published a front page spread proclaiming, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” For years, major storms, droughts, floods and fires have been connected to climate change. The climate […]
California Lawmakers Move to Prevent Another Disastrous Gas Blowout at Aliso Canyon
California Lawmakers Move to Prevent Another Disastrous Gas Blowout at Aliso Canyon On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 380, which requires rigorous testing protocols to prevent another disastrous blowout at the SoCal Gas Aliso Canyon facility north of Los Angeles. And lawmakers said SB 380 will buy time to fix the larger problem […]
Amerigeddon: Are You Ready For The Chaos That Will Ensue When The Power Grid Is Brought Down?
Amerigeddon: Are You Ready For The Chaos That Will Ensue When The Power Grid Is Brought Down? What would America look like with absolutely no electricity? Could you survive in a world with no lights, no cell phones, no computers, no televisions, no ATMs, no cash registers and no refrigerators? Such a world is not […]
Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos
Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos What’s turning northern forests into tinder? Biggest reason is climate change, but that’s not all. A police officer surveys smoldering devastation wrought by wildfire in Fort McMurray on May 5, 2016. Source: RCMP Alberta. A sudden shift in the wind at a critical time of day […]
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History The gigantic wildfire that has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta has been nicknamed “the Beast“, and mainstream news reports are telling us that it is now approximately 25 percent larger than New […]
Groundwater Contamination from Fracking Changes over Time: Study
Groundwater Contamination from Fracking Changes over Time: Study Texas study finds quality fluctuates as nearby industry evolves. A new Texas study is the first to measure groundwater quality from private water wells before, during, and after the expansion of fracking. Water photo via Shutterstock. A new Texas study has found that horizontal oil wells fractured by the injection of […]
Solomons sinking: Five Pacific reef islands swallowed by rising sea levels
Solomons sinking: Five Pacific reef islands swallowed by rising sea levels © Rick Rycroft / Reuters Five reef islands have disappeared from the Pacific’s Solomon Islands and six more have been severely damaged due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, according to new research. Studying the relationship between sea level rise and wave exposure […]
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the […]
“Out Of Control” Canada Wildfire Could Double In Size Today: Fort McKay Evacuated
“Out Of Control” Canada Wildfire Could Double In Size Today: Fort McKay Evacuated Since we first reported on the massive fire (and the fallout) that was burning in Canada’s oil sands gateway, Fort McMurray, things have gone from bad to worse. Today we learn that the fire that has already devastated 600 square miles, growing an additional 50% […]
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe Part of the global warming/climate change deals, many people do not realize that in Europe there will be no more gasoline and diesel cars on the streets come 2020. From Norway to India the year 2020 will mark the end of petrol or […]
More evacuation orders issued for Fort McMurray area
More evacuation orders issued for Fort McMurray area Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates and Fort McMurray First Nation forced to evacuate late Wednesday Many evacuees forced from their Fort McMurray homes by wildfire Tuesday are on the move once again. Three communities south of Fort McMurray, one including an evacuation centre, were ordered to leave as changing weather patterns turned […]
