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Will Any Humans Become Post-Carbon?
Will Any Humans Become Post-Carbon? Probably nobody will read this because it is far too long, far too full of horrifying details, and far too realistic for most tastes. I write it anyway, to fulfill a promise I made. Photo by Roxanne Desgagnés Back in 2007 I read the book High Noon by J. F. Rischard (also available in German). Rischard’s […]
Planetary Gas Chamber not “Climate Change”
Planetary Gas Chamber not “Climate Change” We have been aware that burning fossil fuels would alter, destabilise and warm the atmosphere since at least 1847 and the narrative has been controlled since shortly thereafter. Had we described the phenomenon as creating what it is, a “Planetary Gas Chamber” for most, if not all complex life on the […]
Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?
Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall? Forecast cloudy: Solar panels are wiped off for peak performance at The Wash Basket Laundromat, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, in 2011. The business qualified for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Energy for America Program assistance to add 72 photovoltaic panels to reduce electrical demand by a […]
The climate movement was built for a world before climate change—it’s time for a new approach
The climate movement was built for a world before climate change—it’s time for a new approach We need a mass movement that can deal with climate disasters by training people to both protect and mobilize their communities. We are past the point where “stopping” climate change is really possible. With global temperature rise already above […]
Logging industry targeted B.C. old-growth forests for more than a century, SFU study finds
Logging industry targeted B.C. old-growth forests for more than a century, SFU study finds Ken Lertzman’s paper shows between 1860 and 2016, 87 per cent of logging took place in old-growth forests A man walks past an old growth tree in Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew, B.C. A new paper published by Simon Fraser University […]
Humanity’s Biggest Crisis Since WW2?
Humanity’s Biggest Crisis Since WW2?
UCSB Scientists See the End of ‘Normal’ Climate
UCSB Scientists See the End of ‘Normal’ Climate Researcher Asks: ‘What Happens If You Know the Drought Is Never Going to End?’ Credit: Courtesy In August, Governor Gavin Newsom and officials from the Department of Water Resources released a new Water Supply Strategy, saying that because of California’s “hotter, drier climate,” the state needed to find […]
Global ‘Stilling’: Is Climate Change Slowing Down the Wind?
Global ‘Stilling’: Is Climate Change Slowing Down the Wind? As carbon dioxide levels rise and the Earth’s poles warm, researchers are predicting a decline in the planet’s wind speeds. This ‘stilling’ could impact wind energy production and plant growth and might even affect the Gulf Stream, which drives much of the world’s climate. Last year, […]
Intense heat and flooding are wreaking havoc on power and water systems as climate change batters America’s aging infrastructure
Intense heat and flooding are wreaking havoc on power and water systems as climate change batters America’s aging infrastructure The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of infrastructure development in the U.S., with the expansion of the interstate system and widespread construction of new water treatment, wastewater and flood control systems reflecting national priorities in public […]
Risk of passing multiple climate tipping points escalates above 1.5°C global warming
Risk of passing multiple climate tipping points escalates above 1.5°C global warming 09/09/2022 – Multiple climate tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a major new analysis published in the journal Science. Even at current levels of global heating the world is already at risk of […]
As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them?
As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them? Temporary foreign workers from Mexico plant strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., on May 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes As droughts, deteriorating farmland and rising sea levels push people around the world from their homes, advocates in Canada are calling on the […]
Taming The Greedocracy
Taming The Greedocracy American elites want magical technological fixes to climate change because they refuse to confront the truth that seriously addressing the problem would require limits to their own power and luxury. Few of us want to face the climate mess. The numbers are scary and confusing, and the facts have never been reported […]
‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?
‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown? Record high temperatures and extreme weather events are being recorded around the world. Photograph: Ian Logan/Getty Images Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading […]
