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Dangerous climate tipping point is ‘about a century ahead of schedule’ warns scientist

April 13, 2018

Dangerous climate tipping point is ‘about a century ahead of schedule’ warns scientist A slowing Gulf Stream system means catastrophic East Coast flooding will get much worse. TAXIS SIT IN A FLOODED LOT AFTER HURRICANE SANDY OCTOBER 30, 2012 IN HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY. CREDIT: MICHAEL BOCCHIERI/GETTY IMAGES New research provides strong evidence that one of […]

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Climate changes can kick in below 2°C limit

October 19, 2015

Climate changes can kick in below 2°C limit Extensive melting of the snow on the Tibetan plateau could be a tipping point. Image: katorisi via Wikimedia Commons Sudden shifts in settled climates can occur long before global warming reaches the internationally-agreed safety level, European scientists say. LONDON, 18 October, 2015 – Climate change could arrive with startling […]

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More Evidence We’ve Reached a “Peak Water” Tipping Point in California

October 5, 2015

More Evidence We’ve Reached a “Peak Water” Tipping Point in California March in Yosemite, four years running (source; click to enlarge) It may be a see-saw course, but it’s riding an uphill train. A bit ago I wrote, regarding climate and tipping points: The concept of “tipping point” — a change beyond which there’s no turning […]

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“It’s A Tipping Point” Marc Faber Warns “There Are No Safe Assets Anymore”

September 3, 2015

“It’s A Tipping Point” Marc Faber Warns “There Are No Safe Assets Anymore” Markets have “reached some kind of a tipping point,” warns Marc Faber in this brief Bloomberg TV interview. Simply put, he explains, “because of modern central banking and repeated interventions with monetary policy, in other words, with QE, all around the world by […]

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After the encyclical, lessons for climate activism?

July 21, 2015

After the encyclical, lessons for climate activism? Note: This blog is based on and extends a short presentation at aLighter Footprints climate action group monthly meeting in Melbourne on 24 June. Washington Post advertisement When I first heard early this year about the forthcoming papal encyclical on nature and climate change, my first reaction was that this […]

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The coming “tipping point” of the climate perception: enough to solve the problem?

June 16, 2015

The coming “tipping point” of the climate perception: enough to solve the problem? Recognizing the existence of world scale problems takes time. For instance, the above Google “Ngram” search show that world hunger was not recognized as a serious problem until relatively recent times. However, starting in the 1960s, considerable efforts were dedicated to increasing […]

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“We Reached The Tipping Point”: Income Inequality Is Highest Since Records Began

May 21, 2015

“We Reached The Tipping Point”: Income Inequality Is Highest Since Records Began While soaring stock prices do nothing to boost the economy, because as 7 years of hard facts have shown, the only thing “trickle down” QE has done is forced economists to jump the shark and demand not one but two seasonal adjustments to […]

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It’s time to ‘Do the math’ again

April 28, 2015

It’s time to ‘Do the math’ again Have we gone mad? A new reportreleased today explains why contemporary climate change policy-making should be characterised as increasingly delusional. As the deadline approaches for submissions to the Australian government’s climate targets process, there is a flurry of submissions and reports from advocacy groups and theClimate Change Authority. Most of […]

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