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Climate Change and Wildfires: The New Western Travesty
Climate Change and Wildfires: The New Western Travesty Photo Source BLMIdaho | CC BY 2.0 The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank’s new book, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink. As my wife Chelsea and I drove through Arizona on our annual pilgrimage from California to Montana, orange smoke […]
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 […]
The Difference Between Climate Change Caused By Humans and Those of Milankovitch Cycles
The Difference Between Climate Change Caused By Humans and Those of Milankovitch Cycles As I knew would happen, my review of the very serious and heavily documented book, Unprecedented Crime (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/10/26/global-warming-is-real-the-threat-is-real-ecocide-is-on-the-horizon/ ) resulted in condemnations from the fossil fuel industry’s trolls and from libertarians who think that global warming is a scheme for government to […]
UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between “Mad Max and Hunger Games”
UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between “Mad Max and Hunger Games” Humanity, we’re essentially told, is doomed lest people concede their freedom to the experts, lawmakers, and bureaucrats who can save us. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a special report detailing all the ways climate change is predicted to […]
The New IPCC Report Offers Climate Solutions That Depend on Magic
THE NEW IPCC REPORT OFFERS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS THAT DEPEND ON MAGIC To solve the crisis, we’d have to slow growth. And no one wants to admit that. (Photo: Roxanne Desgagnés/Unsplash) Over the past couple of decades, climate scientists have warned government leaders that global warming could pose an extinction-level threat to humanity. In response, policymakers […]
‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate
‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate The United Nations (UN) climate science panel is being accused of ignoring research into fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns that have been key to holding back action on global warming. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — an […]
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It’s Too Late
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It’s Too Late In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth […]
UN Puts $2.4 Trillion Annual Price Tag On Mitigating Climate Change
UN Puts $2.4 Trillion Annual Price Tag On Mitigating Climate Change Climate scientists are not known for giving good news, and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that convened in South Korea was no exception: the scientists that compiled a special report on the climate situation on the planet slapped optimists in the face: […]
The 19th-Century Tumult Over Climate Change – And Why It Matters Today
The 19th-Century Tumult Over Climate Change – And Why It Matters Today Back in the 19th century, when tractors were still pulled by horses and the word “computer” meant a person hired to carry out tedious calculations, climate science made front-page news. One European forester remarked in 1901 that few questions had “been debated and addressed […]
A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival
A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival There is almost unanimous agreement among climate scientists and organizations – that is, 97% of over 10,000 climate scientists and the various scientific organizations engaged in climate science research – that human beings have caused a dramatic increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and […]
Climate science’s official text is outdated. Here’s what it’s missing.
Climate science’s official text is outdated. Here’s what it’s missing. The first-ever courtroom tutorial of climate science this week went about as you’d expect. The scientists representing Oakland and San Francisco had Powerpoint problems, and the oil industry’s lawyer cherry-picked his facts. For all their differences, both sides drew from a common source: The Intergovernmental Panel […]
Climate Science Part 9 – Jet Stream
Climate Science Part 9 – Jet Stream In this ninth part of our mini-series on climate science, we turn to one of the key suspects in extreme weather events we have experienced in recent years—the shifting shape of the North Atlantic jet stream. And the fingerprints of the changing jet stream can be found in […]
How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims Much of the public discussion about climate science consists of a stream of assertions. The climate is changing or it isn’t; carbon dioxide causes global warming or it doesn’t; humans are partly responsible or they are not; scientists have a rigorous process of peer review […]
Defying Dystopia: Shaping the Climate Future We Want
Defying Dystopia: Shaping the Climate Future We Want We live in an age of dystopias on demand. Whether it’s Black Mirror, The Hunger Games or The Handmaid’s Tale, there is no limit to satiating our desires for dark, apocalyptic visions of the future. Unfortunately the scariest experience does not involve the world of the imaginary; […]
