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Have tipping points already been passed for critical climate systems? (5) Coral Reefs: A death spiral
Have tipping points already been passed for critical climate systems? (5) Coral Reefs: A death spiral Great Barrier Reef bleaching 2016 Ecosystems, including coral reefs, mangroves and kelp forests in Australia, are degrading fast as the world’s sixth mass extinction gathers pace.Coral polyps are invertebrates similar to minute jellyfish, which build limestone structures, and live […]
Experts Say Nuclear Energy as Climate Solution Is Total ‘Fiction’
A protestor gestures during an anti-nuclear demonstration on October 1, 2016 in Siouville-Hague, northwestern France. (Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images) Experts Say Nuclear Energy as Climate Solution Is Total ‘Fiction’ “The reality is nuclear is neither clean, safe, or smart; but a very complex technology with the potential to cause significant harm.” As global […]
Don’t Make Me Watch
Don’t Make Me Watch The new climate film celebrates malpractice martyrdom, and enviros of all stripes are cheering it on I had to force myself to watch Don’t Look Up. It was painful. Just as painful as it’s been to watch the litany of reviews extolling its virtues, with one righteous climate scientist and environmentalist after […]
Spot The Illusions We Tell Ourselves
Spot The Illusions We Tell Ourselves Whitewater Falls, North Carolina Recently there have been a rather large number of occurrences which shine a light on some positive progress being made on ecological overshoot. Unfortunately, many outlets and even scientists have made claims about so-called “solutions” which are anything but, and generally they’re simply not true. […]
Beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate, whether the challenge is drought or floods
Beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate, whether the challenge is drought or floods It’s no accident that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology claim the beaver (Castor canadensis) as their mascots. Renowned engineers, beavers seem able to dam any stream, building structures with logs and mud that can flood […]
Climate scientists: Ban solar geoengineering
Climate scientists: Ban solar geoengineering ‘The risks are poorly understood and can never be fully known’ The following open letter was issued by an international coalition of prominent scientists and governance scholars on January 17, 2022. It calls for an international treaty to outlaw attempts to reduce global heating by blocking sunlight from reaching earth. […]
Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year
Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year Ocean heating driven by human-caused climate crisis, scientists say, in sixth consecutive year record has been broken An oil platform stands offshore as cargo shipping container ships wait in the Pacific Ocean to enter the port of Los Angeles. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images The world’s oceans […]
Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann
Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann And why the climate change conversation isn’t helping A post-carbon world could be our opportunity to so better—and make the difficult transition much harder to swallow. That’s the message of Alice Friedemann on this week’s episode, author of When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation. The […]
Losing It
Losing It Faced with the gathering collapse of the biosphere, and governments’ refusal to take the necessary action, how do we stop ourselves from falling apart? No wonder journalists have slated it. They’ve produced a hundred excuses not to watch the climate breakdown satire Don’t Look Up: it’s “blunt”, it’s “shrill”, it’s “smug”. But they […]
Oceans Break Heat Record for Third Year in a Row
Oceans Break Heat Record for Third Year in a Row 2021 broke the record from 2020 by about 14 zettajoules, or 20 times the world’s annual energy consumption An Arvor float is deployed from the RV Pourquoi Pas to capture ocean temperature data. The oceans are absorbing more heat as climate change advances. Credit: Argo Program […]
Social Cohesion Is Vital, and We’re Losing It
An American flag in front of a damaged school area in Dayton, Ohio on May 28, 2019. (Photo: Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images) Social Cohesion Is Vital, and We’re Losing It As with climate change, inequality, and our other collective problems, solutions will entail confronting and reining in power—whether the power of wealth, of outsized […]
Why Pundits ‘Don’t Look Up’ from Progress
Why Pundits ‘Don’t Look Up’ from Progress The new film about a total apocalypse of the human race is being slammed by many film reviewers. But when I chat to people who have seen it they think it brilliant. And my Facebook wall is full of friends writing versions of OMG what a film! So […]
Wishes for a beautiful, safe, and productive 2022 for you and your gardens!
Wishes for a beautiful, safe, and productive 2022 for you and your gardens! This week is the end of 2021 and the start of the new year. What a year 2021 has been! Without even talking about politics, COVID-19, sports, or the economy, it was certainly one to remember from the standpoint of weather and […]
Why the Arctic Sea Ice Matters to All Complex Life on the Planet
Why the Arctic Sea Ice Matters to All Complex Life on the Planet “President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’” Clearly we have lost the Arctic as one of our major planetary thermostats. Myself, Beryl Sirmacek, John Doyle and Arctic Oceanographer Jim Massa discuss the unravelling in the Arctic and […]
