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Notes From Underground #4: Emergency Democracy
Notes From Underground #4: Emergency Democracy It’s late in 1940, six months since the fall of France. Still a year to go before America joins the war. Meanwhile, Britain soldiers on alone – or so it likes to tell itself, the vastness of Empire folded conveniently into the background. Through the crackling of the wireless, […]
New Study Finds Far Greater Methane Threat from Fossil Fuel Industry
New Study Finds Far Greater Methane Threat from Fossil Fuel Industry The gas plays a powerful role in driving up global temperatures. A new study published in Nature may have ended a long scientific debate about the key source of rising methane levels in the atmosphere. It found that methane emissions from human activities — mainly fossil fuels […]
Guest post: The irreversible emissions of a permafrost ‘tipping point’
Guest post: The irreversible emissions of a permafrost ‘tipping point’ Across vast swaths of the northern hemisphere’s higher reaches, frozen ground holds billions of tonnes of carbon. As global temperatures rise, this “permafrost” land is at increasing risk of thawing out, potentially releasing its long-held carbon into the atmosphere. Abrupt permafrost thaw is one of […]
Global warming was blamed for evaporating the Great Lakes, now blamed for high water levels in Chicago’s ‘climate emergency’ – Updated 2
Global warming was blamed for evaporating the Great Lakes, now blamed for high water levels in Chicago’s ‘climate emergency’ – Updated 2 “What we are seeing in global warming is the evaporation of our Great Lakes.” That was Illinois Senator Dick Durbin in 2013 when Lake Michigan was at a record low. You can find plenty of […]
Even The Mainstream Media Is Now Admitting That Humanity Is Facing “A Perfect Storm”
Even The Mainstream Media Is Now Admitting That Humanity Is Facing “A Perfect Storm” Over the last several decades, have we ever seen a year start as strangely as 2020 has? Global weather patterns have gone completely nuts, large earthquakes are popping off like firecrackers, it looks like the plague of locusts in Africa could […]
Burning Trees For Heating Won’t Help With Climate Change: UK Think Tank
Burning Trees For Heating Won’t Help With Climate Change: UK Think Tank A suggestion by the UK Committee on Climate Change to burn more wood and plant replacement trees as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels has drawn criticism from think tank Chatham House, which says this is hardly the best approach to reducing emissions. “Expanding forest cover […]
IMF Slashes Global GDP Forecast For 6th Consecutive Time, Warns “Climate Change” Will Hit Economy
IMF Slashes Global GDP Forecast For 6th Consecutive Time, Warns “Climate Change” Will Hit Economy After the IMF cut its global economic outlook for 2019 to 2.9% in October, the lowest since the financial crisis, and warned that global trade growth would be “close to a standstill”, moments ago the IMF once again downgraded its […]
Europe Leads The World In Environmental Protection
Europe Leads The World In Environmental Protection Earlier this week, the European Union unveiled their European Investment Plan aimed at shifting 1 trillion euros into making the economy more environmentally friendly over the next 10 years. Statista’s Willem Rpoer reports that the investment plan is in line with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s Green Deal, which looks to make the […]
It’s the hottest decade–ever
It’s the hottest decade–ever As the decade comes to a close, environmentalists are looking back over the last ten years of supposedly ‘natural’ disasters and extreme weather. It’s alarming: there are absolutely no signs that the global climate crisis is under control. It just keeps on getting hotter. While Canadians are enjoying a balmy […]
Dave Collum’s 2019 Year In Review: “I Fought The Fed, And The Fed Won”
Dave Collum’s 2019 Year In Review: “I Fought The Fed, And The Fed Won” Authored by David B. Collum, Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology – Cornell University (Email: dbc6@cornell.edu, Twitter: @DavidBCollum), “I hope David comes to his senses.” ~ Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb), best-selling author and Professor at NYU Every year, David Collum writes a detailed […]
“The UN’s ‘Woke’ Climate Change Propaganda Is An Insult To Science”
“The UN’s ‘Woke’ Climate Change Propaganda Is An Insult To Science” I was always a ‘middle-grounder’, rather than a ‘denier’ – until I discovered the extent of the dishonesty The climate change “emergency” is fake news. Many will roll their eyes in exasperation at the conspiratorial bombastry of yet another “denier”. But for years I have been […]
When Climate Striking Stops ‘Sparking Joy.’ What Comes Next?
When Climate Striking Stops ‘Sparking Joy.’ What Comes Next? Youth activists pause to plan a fresh wave of action. On a cold Friday in Winnipeg two weeks ago, ten people gathered in a circle outside city hall singing “Happy Birthday.” They were celebrating the one-year anniversary of the city’s first student climate strike. “We’re all […]
Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters
Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters Greenpeace’s Yeb Saño explains what a Philippines human rights investigation means for the fossil fuel industry in Canada. Four years ago, the Philippines Commission on Human Rights began posing an incendiary question. Should 47 of the planet’s most polluting companies have to answer legally for the […]
Our Entangled Future: Excerpt
Our Entangled Future: Excerpt Ed. note: This piece is an excerpt from the book Our Entangled Future: Stories to Empower Quantam Social Change, edited by Karen O’Brien, Ann El Khoury, Nicole Schafenacker, and Jordan Rosenfeld. You can find out more about the book and download a free copy here. (Direct quotes and references for this excerpt […]
Our climate is like reckless banking before the crash—it’s time to talk about near-term collapse
Our climate is like reckless banking before the crash—it’s time to talk about near-term collapse Our food, finance, and logistics systems are worryingly vulnerable to climate shocks, Aled Jones and Will Steffen write. These are not distant existential issues raised by uncertain and abstract models of future climatic risk. They are urgent questions that humanity […]
