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Goldman Strikes Again: Did A Probe Into “Global Warming” Fraud Cost A Prime Minister’s Job
Goldman Strikes Again: Did A Probe Into “Global Warming” Fraud Cost A Prime Minister’s Job When Tony Abbott became Australia’s prime minister in September 2013, the chain of events that would prematurely end his tenure may already have been in motion: just a few months later China would order its out of control shadow banking […]
Forest loss and land degradation fuel climate crisis
Forest loss and land degradation fuel climate crisis UN studies show that the combined effects of degraded farmland and the felling and burning of trees are costing the planet trillions of dollars in ecosystem losses. The planet’s forests have dwindled by 3% − equivalent almost to the land area of South Africa − in the last 25 years, […]
The world could completely abandon fossil fuels by 2050
The world could completely abandon fossil fuels by 2050 Climate summit commitments judged insufficient to avoid warming, divestment from fossil fuel investment soars into the trillions, and the world could be running on 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050. Warming unavoidable? Just over two months from now, representatives from nations around the world will […]
Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist
Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist Paul Ehrlich writes in Nature Climate Change that Francis is wrong to fight climate change without also addressing the strain from population growth on resources One of America’s leading scientists has dismissed as “raving nonsense” the pope’s call for action on climate […]
Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same?
Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same? Two years ago when he was 14, my son Matthew grew six inches. Last year he only grew two inches, and this year he has only grown half an inch. Should I be worried? Of course not. At a certain stage of maturity, quantifiable physical growth […]
Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns
Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns An astonishing 720 million people around the world face falling back into extreme poverty unless we tackle climate change immediately, warns a new report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at […]
California Lake Mysteriously Runs Dry Overnight, Thousands Of Fish Dead
California Lake Mysteriously Runs Dry Overnight, Thousands Of Fish Dead Perhaps it is because the world has grown habituated to its unique set of “liquidity” problems, but California’s record, and ongoing, drought has not been receiving much media coverage in recent weeks. Perhaps it should be, because according to a report by CBS Sacramento, the mystery that […]
Arctic thaw would cost half of world’s annual earnings
Arctic thaw would cost half of world’s annual earnings If Arctic soils melt and release frozen carbon, the impact would cost almost half the world’s annual gross domestic product, researchers say. LONDON, 22 September, 2015 – The melting permafrost in the Arctic could cost the world dearly. New research calculates that the economic damage that would […]
Nuclear Power Kills: the Real Reason the NRC Canceled It’s Nuclear Site Cancer Study
Nuclear Power Kills: the Real Reason the NRC Canceled It’s Nuclear Site Cancer Study Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. After spending some $1.5 million and more than five years on developing strategies to answer the question of increases of cancer near nuclear facilities, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) last week reported that they would not […]
Fukushima disaster was preventable, new study claims
Fukushima disaster was preventable, new study claims © Kimimasa Mayama / Pool / Reuters Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster in Japan’s history was preventable, a new USC study claims. Design problems, negligence and inadequate pre-tsunami surveys all contributed to the failure that led to the nuclear catastrophe, the study claims. According to the research carried […]
Groundwater Recharging
Groundwater Recharging It’s a rainy Monsoon day. Today, it’s water, water everywhere, but soon there will not be a drop to drink. Think forward to April & May. Dry times ahead. And for some, water problems could come as early as February & March. Every monsoon, Goa receives around 3000mm of Monsoon rainwater. That’s a […]
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade Anti-desertification sand fences in Morocco. (Anderson Sady / CC BY-SA 3.0) Fifty million refugees fleeing hunger and poverty could be created in the next decade unless the world’s land degradation crisis is addressed, according to a new U.N.-backed study. The report, titled “The Value of Land,” estimates that […]
The state of the climate movement
The state of the climate movement This is the text of a talk I gave today at Save the Children as part of their #changehistory series, organised by Campaigns Director (and fellow GlobalDashboard contributor) Kirsty McNeill. Kirsty’s opening talk in the series is here; see also @changehistory on Twitter. I. It’s the afternoon of 28 June 1988. NASA […]
Why America’s Deadly Love Affair with Bottled Water Has to Stop
Why America’s Deadly Love Affair with Bottled Water Has to Stop Last year, Americans drank more than 10 billion gallons of bottled water. Wildlife and the environment paid. This spring, as California withered in its fourth year of drought and mandatory water restrictions were enacted for the first time in the state’s history, a news story broke revealing that […]
