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Collapsing Rainforest Ecosystems
Collapsing Rainforest Ecosystems Photo Source A.Davey | CC BY 2.0 The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently issued a report on the status of arthropods in rainforests (Bradford C. Lister and Andres Garcia, Climate-Driven Declines in Arthropod Abundance Restructure a Rainforest Food Web, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722477115). The report’s shocking analysis […]
World wakes up to scale of climate challenge, so what should a Labor government do?
World wakes up to scale of climate challenge, so what should a Labor government do? Quite suddenly, in the wake of the recent IPCC report, it’s become commonplace to talk about a global climate emergency. Al Gore told PBS on 12 October: “We have a global emergency. You use a phrase like that and some […]
Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences
Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences Photo Source Sakeeb Sabakka | CC BY 2.0 …We can’t save the world by playing by the rules because the rules have to change. Everything needs to change and it has to start today….To all the politicians that pretend to take the climate question seriously, to all […]
Time Out for Nukes!
Time Out for Nukes! With 122 nations having voted last summer to adopt a treaty for the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons, just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons, its seems that the world is locked in a new Cold War time-warp, totally inappropriate to the times. We were warned last week […]
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 […]
Climate catastrophe: The median is NOT the message
Climate catastrophe: The median is NOT the message Anyone who has followed the climate change issue in the last 30 years knows that official forecasts provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are quickly upended by developments and have often been obsolete before they were issued. The latest report from the IPCC is […]
Climate Crisis is Upon Us
Climate Crisis is Upon Us One of the more useful allusions hidden in plain sight in the recent IPCC / UN report on climate crisis is the distinction between the pre-industrial and industrial ages that defines the era of climate crisis. Industrial capitalism, a/k/a capitalism, is the cause of climate crisis. Plenty of pseudo-scientific rubbish […]
‘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 […]
The IPCC Special Report – mountain or molehill?
The IPCC Special Report – mountain or molehill? According to a number of media sources the just-released IPCC Special Report confirms that climate change is about to fry us (We need massive changes to avoid climate hell says Wired Magazine). In fact it adds nothing of significance to what the IPCC concluded in its 2014 […]
Is There Hope and a World Warming at 1.5 Degrees Celsius
Is There Hope and a World Warming at 1.5 Degrees Celsius Photo Source NASA’s Earth Observatory | CC BY 2.0 The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded the finalization of a special report on the impact of a 1.5 degree Celsius global warming above preindustrial levels. Meeting in Incheon, South Korea (October 1-5), its three working […]
Peak Carbon Emissions By 2020, or Else!
Peak Carbon Emissions By 2020, or Else! Photo Source David Burke | CC BY 2.0 World greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2020, or it’s lights out! That’s the message from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which has come out from under the shadows of Paris 2015 swinging like a heavyweight champion boxer, […]
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: […]
Some Thoughts On Climate Change
Some Thoughts On Climate Change A new IPCC report written and edited by 91 scientists from 40 countries who analyzed more than 6,000 scientific studies says we’re looking at climate catastrophe as early as 2040 unless changes are made worldwide on a scale and speed which has no historic precedent. $54 trillion worth of damage is predicted […]
