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Uniting for a Green New Deal
Uniting for a Green New Deal Support is growing in the United States for a Green New Deal. Though there are competing visions for what that looks like, essentially, a Green New Deal includes a rapid transition to a clean energy economy, a jobs program and a stronger social safety net. We need a Green […]
More vegetables, less meat for all our sakes
More vegetables, less meat for all our sakes Spanish market: Vegetable-rich diets make for a healthier planet. Image: By ja ma on Unsplash Researchers are clear: the healthy diet for a healthy planet is more vegetables, less meat. What matters is the food that’s served, and the way it’s produced too. LONDON, 17 January, 2019 […]
Climate Disaster Is Upon Us
Climate Disaster Is Upon Us The question is no longer whether or not we are going to fail, but how are we going to comport ourselves in the era of failure? Ice falls from Margerie Glacier into Glacier Bay, Alaska. (Kimberly Vardeman, CC BY 2.0) I’m standing atop Rush Hill on Alaska’s remote St. Paul […]
Warmer waters leave Irish anglers fishless
Warmer waters leave Irish anglers fishless Anglers’ prize: But the salmon is not doing well in Irish waters. Image: Via Wikimedia Commons [public domain] Irish anglers are having little luck as fish feel the effects of warmer waters − which are also increasing greenhouse gases. WEST OF IRELAND, 16 January, 2019 − Unusually high temperatures […]
Jorg Friedrichs: The future is not what it used to be. climate change and energy scarcity
Jorg Friedrichs: The future is not what it used to be. climate change and energy scarcity Preface. This book ranges across many topics and I’ve only included a few bits and pieces. Friedrichs discusses what to do, recovery, denial, migration, historically how Japan, North Korea, and Cuba reacted to sudden energy decline and based on […]
Rising Sea Levels – by How Much, and Why? A Current Commentary.
Rising Sea Levels – by How Much, and Why? A Current Commentary. The following was published in the journal Science Progress recently, of which I am an editor. Since this blog typically covers issues of environment and energy, I am including the present topic, which I hope will be of interest to its regular readers, […]
Migrant birds face risk in earlier springs
Migrant birds face risk in earlier springs A great tit preys on a pied flycatcher. Image: By Maurice van Laar Spring in the high latitudes is arriving ever earlier. But migrant birds from the tropics may not realise that, and faulty timing could cost them their lives. LONDON, 11 January, 2019 – Biologists have identified […]
Climate Change Debunked: No Sign Of Warming In 900 Years
Climate Change Debunked: No Sign Of Warming In 900 Years A new study finds no trace of modern-day global warming. In a new study published in the journal Climate of the Past, a team of geophysicists at UMass Amherst have reconstructed the highest resolution temperature record for New England, stretching back 900 years to the […]
14 New Massachusetts State Reps Support 100% Renewable Energy by 2050
14 New Massachusetts State Reps Support 100% Renewable Energy by 2050 With the swearing in of new members last week, the Massachusetts legislature, not unlike the U.S. Congress, is receiving an infusion of brand-new state representatives who already are pushing an aggressive agenda focused on addressing climate change and transitioning to 100 percent renewable electricity […]
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 […]
Why are We Still Logging Our Forests?
Why are We Still Logging Our Forests? Anyone who accepts true science realizes that today’s big forest fires are driven far more by climate warming than by a lack of “active forest management” as claimed in previous editorial opinions. Active forest management, more honestly called “logging,” has always been the timber industry’s cure-all for every […]
Why should I sacrifice when big companies are to blame for climate change?
ASK UMBRA Why should I sacrifice when big companies are to blame for climate change? Q.Why should I feel guilty for flying abroad for vacation or having a child when 100 companies are responsible for 71 percent of CO2 emissions? And how do I hold those companies responsible for climate change when every facet of […]
An Optimist’s Guide to Climate Change
Tom Werner/Getty Images An Optimist’s Guide to Climate Change Grim environmental news is nothing new, but 2018 brought a deluge of it, and some now argue that the world has reached the point of no return for climate change. But new research shows that it is not too late to change course. WASHINGTON, DC – […]
Lakes run dry from too much water extraction and climate change
Lakes run dry from too much water extraction and climate change Source: Hannah Osborne. Feb 8, 2016. Bolivia’s vanishing Lake Poopó: ESA images show fully evaporated lake from space. International Business Times. Preface. It’s bad enough that aquifers are being depleted that won’t recharge until after the next ice age, or in some places like […]
Supreme Court Blocks ExxonMobil’s Effort to Conceal Decades of Documents in Probe of Oil Giant’s Climate Deception
Supreme Court Blocks ExxonMobil’s Effort to Conceal Decades of Documents in Probe of Oil Giant’s Climate Deception The high court’s ruling means the company must hand over records to the Massachusetts attorney general for her ongoing investigation In a win for climate campaigners and Massachusetts’ Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey on Monday, the U.S.Supreme Court rejected […]
