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Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming Photograph Source: Charles Marion Russell – Public Domain A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article’s premise of impending runaway global warming (“RGW”) is off the mark, by a lot. More to the […]
Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction
Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction The world is in the throes of an extinction crisis unlike any throughout paleoclimate history, aka: the Sixth Mass Extinction, keeping in mind that the normal “background rate” for extinction is 1-to-5 species gone per year. But, what if it is five (5) every 24 hours? Answer: It’s a lot […]
The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems
The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems Photograph by P J Hansen – CC BY-SA 2.0 Sometime in the near future it is highly probable that the Arctic will no longer have sea ice, meaning zero ice for the first time in eons, aka: the Blue Ocean Event. Surely, the world is not prepared for the […]
Arctic Permafrost No Longer Freezes … Even in Winter
Arctic Permafrost No Longer Freezes … Even in Winter Global warming is starting to hit hard like there’s no tomorrow, and at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, there may not be a tomorrow, as emissions continue setting new records year-by-year, expected to hit a 62-year record in 2019. So much for the Paris […]
Yes, The Paris Climate Agreement Sucks
Yes, The Paris Climate Agreement Sucks Image Created by L.tak The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 was a big deal as 195 nations agreed to take steps to mitigate global temperatures to +2°C, but preferably +1.5°C, post-industrial or over the past 250 years. When temperatures exceed those levels, all hell breaks loose with our precious […]
Global Warming’s Monster Awakens
Global Warming’s Monster Awakens The planet’s biggest nightmare is coming to life. It may be a bigger threat much sooner than ever before realized simply because it’s accelerating! East Antarctica, the world’s largest body of water trapped in ice, is knocking the socks off expectations. Along the way, it’s the world’s most horrifying surprise, yet […]
CO2 on Track for Largest Rise in 62 Years
CO2 on Track for Largest Rise in 62 Years Around the world, atypical climate change grows increasingly threatening to all life on the planet, principally because of excessive CO2 emissions. Paradoxically, this is happening on the heels of the Paris 2015 climate accord among nations of the world. But, didn’t almost all of the countries […]
End Times, Dead Ahead
End Times, Dead Ahead “It is time we consider the implications of it being too late to avert a global environmental catastrophe in the lifetimes of people alive today.” (Jem Bendell) In other words, the world is coming to an end. Of course it is… but when? Professor Jem Bendell’s brilliant seminal work, “Deep Adaptation: […]
The Deathly Insect Dilemma
The Deathly Insect Dilemma Photo Source Ryan McGuire | CC BY 2.0 Insect abundance is plummeting with wild abandon, worldwide! Species evolve and go extinct as part of nature’s normal course over thousands and millions of years, but the current rate of devastation is off the charts and downright scary. Moreover, there is no quick […]
Carbon Capture – Does it Work?
Carbon Capture – Does it Work? Photo Source Nicholas A. Tonelli | CC BY 2.0 Harken! Good news (maybe) “encouraging news” is a better description, as Negative Emissions Technology (“NET”) starts coming into focus. Conceptually, carbon removal or direct air capture removes CO2 from the atmosphere, which would be great for suppressing climate change. In […]
Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal
Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal Photo Source NASA ICE | CC BY 2.0 On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: “For criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse.” According to the scientists, now is […]
Collapsing Rainforest Ecosystems
Collapsing Rainforest Ecosystems Photo Source A.Davey | CC BY 2.0 The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently issued a report on the status of arthropods in rainforests (Bradford C. Lister and Andres Garcia, Climate-Driven Declines in Arthropod Abundance Restructure a Rainforest Food Web, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722477115). The report’s shocking analysis […]
The Great Drought
The Great Drought Photo Source NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 The most hazardous global warming risk for society at large is widespread loss of grain production because of a synchronized worldwide drought. It would be a colossal killer. It’s happened before, known as The Great Drought 142 years ago. Unmistakably, droughts […]
Peak Carbon Emissions By 2020, or Else!
Peak Carbon Emissions By 2020, or Else! Photo Source David Burke | CC BY 2.0 World greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2020, or it’s lights out! That’s the message from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which has come out from under the shadows of Paris 2015 swinging like a heavyweight champion boxer, […]
Drought-Laden Rainforests
Drought-Laden Rainforests Photo Source Mike Goren | CC BY 2.0 The world’s rainforests are under attack at a rate of 2.5 acres per second. Global warming and clear-cutting for growing palm oil and raising cattle are some of the biggest annihilators. The repercussions are devastating. For example, one of the consequences is harmful alteration of […]
