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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 […]
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis With the release of leaked documents from the TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) ‘trade’ deal Greenpeace framed its conclusions more diplomatically than I will: the actions of the U.S. political leadership undertaken at the behest of American corporate ‘leaders’ and their masters in the capitalist class make it among the […]
Shock impacts hit Greenland’s ice
Shock impacts hit Greenland’s ice An aerial view of icebergs floating in Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord. Image: Mark Garten/UN Photo New research indicates that melting of the Northern Hemisphere’s biggest ice sheet is being accelerated by the seismic impact of waves crashing against Greenland’s coastline. LONDON, 14 May, 2016 – Seismic waves that race through Greenland’s bedrock may […]
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe Part of the global warming/climate change deals, many people do not realize that in Europe there will be no more gasoline and diesel cars on the streets come 2020. From Norway to India the year 2020 will mark the end of petrol or […]
As Climate Warms, How Do We Decide When a Plant is Native?
As Climate Warms, How Do We Decide When a Plant is Native? The fate of a tree planted at poet Emily Dickinson’s home raises questions about whether gardeners can — or should — play a role in helping plant species migrate in the face of rising temperatures and swiftly changing botanical zones. On rare occasions, the […]
Global Warming and the Planetary Boundary
Global Warming and the Planetary Boundary Climate change is on a fast track, a surprisingly fast, very fast track. As such, it’s entirely possible that humanity may be facing the shock of a lifetime, caught off-guard, blindsided by a crumbling ecosystem, spawning tens of thousands of ISIS-like fighters formed into competing gangs struggling for survival. […]
Drought, El Niño, Blackouts and Venezuela
Drought, El Niño, Blackouts and Venezuela It’s fashionable these days to blame everything that goes wrong with anything on human interference with the climate, and we had yet another example last week when President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela fingered drought, El Niño and global warming as the reasons Venezuela’s lights keep going out. In this […]
Exclusive: Climate Hustle’s Marc Morano Turns Down $20k Global Warming Bets From Bill Nye The Science Guy
Exclusive: Climate Hustle’s Marc Morano Turns Down $20k Global Warming Bets From Bill Nye The Science Guy One of America’s most outspoken deniers of the link between fossil fuel burning and global warming has refused $20,000 in bets that the planet will keep getting hotter. Offering the two bets to Marc Morano, of the conservative think […]
False Solutions? 3 Ways To Evaluate Grand Climate Proposals
False Solutions? 3 Ways To Evaluate Grand Climate Proposals The climate news gets scarier by the day. February obliterated all records as the warmest seasonally-adjusted month since measurements began. At this rate, we’re on a path to blow through the 1.5º C temperature rise the nations of the world set as a goal at COP21, not in decades but […]
Oregon says yes to coal-free electricity
Oregon says yes to coal-free electricity The Oregon legislature has adopted a first-in-the-nation plan to phase out electricity from coal, a major source of climate-changing greenhouse gases. The state’s environmental community had been gearing up for a ballot initiative this year that would have forced the state’s utilities to abandon coal as a fuel for electricity. But negotiations between […]
February’s global temperature spike is a wake-up call
February’s global temperature spike is a wake-up call Global temperatures for February showed a disturbing and unprecedented upward spike. It was 1.35℃ warmer than the average February during the usual baseline period of 1951-1980, according to NASA data. This is the largest warm anomaly of any month since records began in 1880. It far exceeds the records set […]
Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate?
Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate? On Monday this week, and rather late in the day, Dr Colin Summerhayes from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left this lengthy comment at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen’s post called Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science. I wanted to respond to some of the […]
Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life
Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life Subsistence hunters in the Arctic have long taken to the sea ice to hunt seals, whales, and polar bears. But now, as the ice disappears and soaring temperatures alter the life cycles and abundance of their prey, a growing number of indigenous communities are facing food shortages. An […]
