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The Myth of Climate Smart Agriculture – Why Less Bad Isn’t Good
The Myth of Climate Smart Agriculture – Why Less Bad Isn’t Good The “modern” intensive agricultural system does the climate more harm than good. That’s a fact, no matter how much Big Data or precision farming you throw at it. We need to look outside that system for solutions. In this excerpt from an evidence-based […]
Tao of Degrowth
Tao of Degrowth I am a degrowther and a doomer but this is not what your first reaction indicates. We are taught to be optimistic and so forth. People loath pessimist and doomers. People tire of people who cry wolf constantly. This is what the doom movement has done for decades now. There is some […]
Reality of Climate Change v People Believe What They Want to Believe
Reality of Climate Change v People Believe What They Want to Believe QUESTION: You have been against the global warming agenda and often say that climate responds to standard cyclical events. Do you have any examples of this? PL ANSWER: If you look at the data objectively, you will see that from the great period […]
Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream
Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream Mill, Halsey, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Having written about the media for several years now, I have become ever more sensitive to how we, as news consumers, are subject to ideology – the invisible, shifting sands of our belief system. […]
“Code Red For Humanity” – UN Warns Climate Change Likely Can’t Be Stopped, And China Is Biggest Contributor
“Code Red For Humanity” – UN Warns Climate Change Likely Can’t Be Stopped, And China Is Biggest Contributor Paging Greta Thunberg… On Monday morning millions of smartphone users awoke to a flurry of push alerts from news organizations touting urgent, ground-breaking news: what Bloomberg described as an “epochal” new report from “the world’s top climate scientists” warned […]
The Threat of an Ice Age is Real
The Threat of an Ice Age is Real Most people have NEVER heard of the Beaufort Gyre, a massive wind-driven current in the Arctic Ocean that actually has far more influence over sea ice than anything we can throw into the atmosphere. The Beaufort Gyre has been regulating climate and sea ice formation for millennia. Recently, however, something has changed; […]
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached?
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached? Media reports frequently claim that the world is facing “committed warming” in the future as a result of past emissions, meaning higher temperatures are “locked in”, “in the pipeline” or “inevitable”, regardless of the choices society takes today. The best available evidence shows […]
Is Earth’s climate about to pass the tipping point?
Is Earth’s climate about to pass the tipping point? Ed. note: This article first appeared in Spanish here. This is an interview with an expert (Ferran Puig Vilar) and award-winning author of a climate blog on tipping points. Photo credit: Ferran Puig Vilar. CEDIDA POR EL ENTREVISTADO The straw that breaks the camel’s back. The last time the […]
Are we Headed into Another Ice Age?
Are we Headed into Another Ice Age? Our model has projected we are entering another “grand-minimum,” which will overtake the sun beginning in 2020 and will last through the 2050s, resulting in diminished magnetism, infrequent sunspot production, and less ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth. This all means we are facing a global cooling period in […]
Guardian Promotes ‘Global Lockdown’ Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change
Guardian Promotes ‘Global Lockdown’ Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change We told you this was coming next… The London Guardian has suggested that global lockdowns will be needed every two years in order to save the planet. The outlet used the (now changed) alarmist headline ‘Global Lockdown Every Two Years Needed To Meet Paris […]
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2)
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2) This is part two of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org here) argues that money is not scarce. Part two argues that control of […]
Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux
Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux Giorgione The Tempest 1508“Mankind’s only chance to not destroy its planet lies in diverging from all other species in that not all energy available to it, is used up as fast as possible. But that’s a big challenge. It would, speaking from a purely philosophical angle, truly separate us from […]
un-Denial Manifesto: Energy and Denial
un-Denial Manifesto: Energy and Denial Six years ago this essay launched and defined un-Denial.com. I’m featuring it on the home page to celebrate 500 posts. This is the story of the two most important things that enabled the success and possible demise of humans: energy and denial. Simple single cell (prokaryotic) life emerges as a gradual […]
Global Food Shortages Beginning
Global Food Shortages Beginning There is a serious food shortage we have been warning about which our computer has been projecting for the 4.3-year wave into 2024. Our sources from Asia and Europe have been confirming what we have been getting from Australia and the United States. Now it is starting to be reported in Germany by […]
Climate explained: why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate
Climate explained: why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate I heard that carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%! How can it be so important in global warming if it’s such a small percentage? I am often asked how carbon dioxide can have an important […]
