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Mitigation, Adaptation & Suffering
Mitigation, Adaptation & Suffering In this conversation, the Climate Disobedience Center’s Tim DeChristopher looks at how the progressive movement’s strategies need to change in now that climate change’s real impacts are more obvious to the American public. He addresses the focus on carbon mitigation (policies for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions) in light of the […]
Factcheck: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming
Factcheck: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming A new study published in the Nature Geosciences journal this week by largely UK-based climate scientists has led to claims in the media that climate models are “wrong” and have significantly overestimated the observed warming of the planet. Here Carbon Brief shows why such claims are a […]
Adjusting Measurements to Match the Models – Part 3: Lower Troposphere Satellite Temperatures
Adjusting Measurements to Match the Models – Part 3: Lower Troposphere Satellite Temperatures Except for small gaps over the poles the satellite temperature series are the only truly global temperature series we have; their defect is that they do not begin until 1979. Published series are constructed using raw records from different satellites that require […]
The Military’s Warning on Global Warming
The Military’s Warning on Global Warming The U.S. military, which gets called on to cope with unrest tied to global warming, is taking the climate threat seriously as opposed to civilian politicians who are pandering to special interests, says ethicist Daniel C. Maguire. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The really neat American idea […]
Merkel Furious With Trump After “Unprecedented” G-7 Failure To Reach Consensus On Climate Change
Merkel Furious With Trump After “Unprecedented” G-7 Failure To Reach Consensus On Climate Change In the end it was not mean to be. As discussed on Friday, during Trump’s first G-7 summit, world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and new French President Emmanuel Macron, had hoped to persuade the the US president to endorse […]
Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door
Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door Pair of new studies show how American climate refugees will ‘reshape’ population landscape of the nation The Chelan Butte fire encroaches on homes in coastal Washington state. (Photo: Ben Brooks/cc/flickr) Americans in many cases have been slow to acknowledge the real threats posed by […]
Climate Change Has Already Had a Negative Impact on Animals on Every Continent
CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ALREADY HAD A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON ANIMALS ON EVERY CONTINENT A new study has revealed that we have underestimated the impact climate change has had on endangered species around the world. These effects have been particularly traumatic for mammals and birds on the endangered species list – even species included on the […]
Carbon Taxes, Cow Farts, And Central Planning
Carbon Taxes, Cow Farts, And Central Planning Submitted by Erico Matias Tavares via Sinclair & Co., In a centrally planned economy decisions on what to produce, how to produce and for whom are taken primarily by the government. The term is usually associated with communist economies. However, since US President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented a […]
Yes, the Arctic’s Freakishly Warm Winter is Due to Humans’ Climate Influence
Yes, the Arctic’s Freakishly Warm Winter is Due to Humans’ Climate Influence For the Arctic, like the globe as a whole, 2016 has been exceptionally warm. For much of the year, Arctic temperatures have been much higher than normal, and sea ice concentrations have been at record low levels. The Arctic’s seasonal cycle means that the lowest […]
Toward a More Reflective Planet
Toward a More Reflective Planet CAMBRIDGE – The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about three million years ago – a time when sea levels were 10-30 meters higher than they are now. Climate models have long struggled to duplicate those large fluctuations in sea levels – […]
Ice free Arctic could occur this year, warns expert
Ice free Arctic could occur this year, warns expert The last time the Arctic was ice-free was 100,000 years ago. © Svebor Kranjc / Reuters Sea ice in the Arctic could be a thing of the past, a leading scientist has warned. For the first time in 100,000 years the chilling landscape known for its snow-capped […]
The Boiling Pot
The Boiling Pot On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper prices […]
Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy
Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy “We’re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the ground…that’s not a position.” This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was asked what he thought of the “growing movement of keeping oil […]
Global Warming Accelerates
Global Warming Accelerates New climate data shows that the global warming crisis is worse – and accelerating at a faster pace – than was understood as recently as last year’s climate-change conference in Paris, writes Nicholas C. Arguimbau. The participants at the Paris climate change conference saw themselves produce “an agreement hailed as ‘historic, durable […]
We are all Albertans now
We are all Albertans now It would be easy–too easy–to point to the wildfires which have devastated huge areas of northern Alberta near Fort McMurray, the hub of tar sands mining in Canada, and say that Albertans are reaping what they have sown. Yes, it’s true that climate change is coming to one of the very […]
