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What Kind of a World do We Want? (…really?)
What Kind of a World do We Want? (…really?) Although this question is both enduring and familiar, its present urgency is fully accentuated in a typically brilliant, but viscerally terrifying, exposition by Noam Chomsky on the current frangible condition of the world, and its near-term prognosis. However, I am also reminded of the strapline from the International Permaculture […]
The Criminology of Global Warming
The Criminology of Global Warming Pulp mill, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Some – like Exxon since 1957 – have been aware that the world is facing global warming that has all the signs to render earth uninhabitable. At least with United Nations’ IPPC and NASA reporting on global warming, others have realised that we also face an unprecedented threat. Potentially, all […]
Climate scientists should admit failure and move on – writes Dr Wolfgang Knorr
Climate scientists should admit failure and move on – writes Dr Wolfgang Knorr TIME FOR ACCEPTANCE The climate crisis demands new ways of thinking – scientists should be first to admit failure and move on. A universal policy failureInarguably, one of the most significant and long-lasting legacies of the 50-year old Apollo programme was the life-changing […]
Bigger cuts for Manchester – in its annual greenhouse gas emissions
Bigger cuts for Manchester – in its annual greenhouse gas emissions Manchester now needs to make bigger cuts to its annual greenhouse gas emissions: A commentary on Manchester Climate Change Agency’s Annual Report A brief Annual Report for 2020 has been issued by Manchester Climate Change Agency. It is not a long report so we encourage you to read […]
Guest post: Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out
Guest post: Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out After four years of labour and detailed discussions by an international team of scientists, we are able to quantify better than ever before how the world’s surface temperature responds to increasing CO2 levels. Our findings, published in Reviews of Geophysics, narrow the likely range in […]
‘Overt Bastardization of the Truth’: Valve Turner Listed as ‘Extremist’ by U.S. Government Faces Upcoming Trial
‘Overt Bastardization of the Truth’: Valve Turner Listed as ‘Extremist’ by U.S. Government Faces Upcoming Trial The valve turners recently listed by Homeland Security as “extremists” believe their action of shutting down 15 percent of the daily U.S. oil supply on Oct. 11, 2016 was their only option of fighting the climate crisis. Valve turner Ken Ward of Climate Direct Action is […]
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years?
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years? A US lawsuit wants the oilsands producer to pay for global warming havoc. Did Canada’s largest oil producer learn about climate change as early as 1959, develop a massive bitumen industry in northern Alberta knowing the atmospheric damage it would cause, and then take part […]
Cogs in the climate machine
Cogs in the climate machine A short course in planetary time, for planetary survival This is less of a blog post, and more of a howl. The planetary climate clock, in human time Let’s start by some human and planetary timescales. I don’t know why we don’t learn them in grade school (I never learned […]
European Civil Unrest Erupting in Germany & the Netherlands
European Civil Unrest Erupting in Germany & the Netherlands Riots are erupting all over Europe. In Stuttgart, a total of 400 to 500 people participated in the riots since Sunday night with 19 police officers injured. The same is unfolding in the Hague in the Netherlands. These politicians know nothing about human nature. Our studies of time […]
What’s Next For Big Oil?
What’s Next For Big Oil? The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant role to play in Big Oil’s shift towards cleaner energy. Three of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies are planning to become net-zero carbon emitters by 2050. Tech will not only help Big Oil become more efficient–it may turn out to […]
Is Trudeau Hiding Environmental Data Calling Top Secret Because it Exposes his Government?
Is Trudeau Hiding Environmental Data Calling Top Secret Because it Exposes his Government? In Canada, the Trudeau government is refusing to release carbon tax data, saying it is top secret so that Canadians are unable to see the findings of the report. This is pretty standard for if it supported their agenda, they would be […]
The Great Reset – The Final Battle Against Marxists
The Great Reset – The Final Battle Against Marxists The rising civil unrest is starting to take notice of Bill Gates and his consortium hell-bent on changing the world economy. They have used the coronavirus as a ploy to shut down the world economy all for their Climate Change Agenda. There is a mountain of […]
Human over-consumption causes far more biodiversity loss than climate change
Human over-consumption causes far more biodiversity loss than climate change Preface. Human ancestors began reducing biodiversity 4 million years ago, when large carnivores in Africa began disappearing, probably due to our ancestors stealing food predators had caught, starving them to death and eventually driving some of them extinct (Faurby, S., et al. 2020. Brain expansion […]
Three crises, one solution
Three crises, one solution The paroxysm of anger that has erupted across the US in the wake of the murder of George Floyd has been called by some observers “a tipping point”. A multicultural younger generation is showing that it is genuinely concerned about social injustice, racial inequality, and the climate crisis. The astonishing scenes […]
