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As the World Burns: Hurtling Towards an Unlivable Planet
As the World Burns: Hurtling Towards an Unlivable Planet Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The media and political establishments are diddling while the planet burns. Are we really supposed to take their games seriously as humanity veers ever more dangerously off the environmental cliff? In 2008, James Hansen, then head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space […]
Only 12 Years Left to Readjust for the 1.5 Degree Climate Change Option – says IPCC Report. Current Commentary.
Only 12 Years Left to Readjust for the 1.5 Degree Climate Change Option – says IPCC Report. Current Commentary. 1. Introduction. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently published a report1 (abbreviated as SR15) which concludes that humankind has a mere twelve years left, during which time sufficient and dramatic carbon-emission mitigation […]
Green New Deal Flunks the Limits Lesson
Green New Deal Flunks the Limits Lesson The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman claims to have invented the idea of the Green New Deal in 2007.[1]He’s back to enlighten us about what it should mean now. Friedman deserves credit as one of the few mainstream pundits who takes climate breakdown seriously. But mainstream methods created the […]
Climacide: Survival Rebranding
Climacide: Survival Rebranding A 15-year old Swedish girl bitch slapped the world’s representatives at the recent climate conference in Poland. She stood before them and called them frauds and fakers, while they sat in limp silence. She said they’d had their chances to do something effective about the climate crisis, and they had failed. It […]
Native Shrubs and Why They’re Essential for Carbon Sequestration
Native Shrubs and Why They’re Essential for Carbon Sequestration Sand prairie merging into shrubland in southeast Wisconsin. Credit: The Prairie Botanist “Shrubbiness is such a remarkable adaptive design that one may wonder why more plants have not adopted it.” (H. C. Stutz, 1989) In light of the newest IPCC and US climate change reports, coupled with […]
Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change?
Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change? Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth survived an existential climate crisis. But that Earth had a distinct advantage. No rich. We either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or all of us are going to fry. So essentially posits still another new blockbuster study on climate […]
Climate Scientist: World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe
Climate Scientist: World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe Watch Full Show LINKS Kevin Anderson on Twitter Greta Thunberg on Twitter The 24th United Nations climate summit comes amid growing warnings about the catastrophic danger climate change poses to the world. In October, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that […]
Countries that Blocked ‘Welcoming’ of Major Climate Science Report at UN Talks have Dozens of Delegates with Ties to Oil, Gas, and Mining
Countries that Blocked ‘Welcoming’ of Major Climate Science Report at UN Talks have Dozens of Delegates with Ties to Oil, Gas, and Mining Dozens of delegates from four countries that forced the UN climate negotiations to weaken language around the acceptance of a major climate science report have ties to the oil, gas and mining industries. […]
Is This The Answer To Global Warming?
Is This The Answer To Global Warming? In my previous article – Indisputable Facts On Climate Change – I addressed some of the things we know to be true as it relates to carbon dioxide and global temperatures. Note that I didn’t try to connect any number of potential threads, nor make dire predictions. My article was […]
Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden
Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden Your backyard could be the next front in the war against global warming. During World War I, Americans were encouraged to do their part in the war effort by planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and storing their own fruits and vegetables. The food would go to allies in Europe, where there […]
My IPCC take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat.
My IPCC take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat. For those who care about the world and the people and creatures we share it with, the last 6 weeks has offered a barrage of dire news. The new IPCC report called for “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”. We learnt that since the […]
Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change
Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change The warning from the world’s top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is both a due and dire recognition of the great task in front of us. What must […]
Why Permaculture Puts Food First
Why Permaculture Puts Food First “Had we heeded Malthus’s warning and kept the human population to less than one billion, we would not now be facing a torrid future.“ There are seven popular food crops in this picture When I teach permaculture, and now having done more than 50 full design courses, I try to […]
The Climate Crisis is Back in the News
The Climate Crisis is Back in the News Photo Source Peter Prokosch | CC BY 2.0 The prospect of drastic climate change is back in the news. But, for all too many people it is just that, a news item. It is like other eye-grabbing stories: a bit scary, but also happening somewhere else and […]
