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Climate Change and Wildfires: The New Western Travesty
Climate Change and Wildfires: The New Western Travesty Photo Source BLMIdaho | CC BY 2.0 The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank’s new book, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink. As my wife Chelsea and I drove through Arizona on our annual pilgrimage from California to Montana, orange smoke […]
November Snow In Texas? Experts Warn Decreased Solar Activity Will Shatter All Global Climate Models
November Snow In Texas? Experts Warn Decreased Solar Activity Will Shatter All Global Climate Models Our sun has been behaving very strangely, and this unusual behavior is really starting to affect our weather patterns. There have been virtually no sunspots in 2018 as solar activity has dropped to alarmingly low levels. As a result, our […]
Build in a Fire Plain, Get What You Deserve
Build in a Fire Plain, Get What You Deserve Photo Source Robert Couse-Baker | CC BY 2.0 My girlfriend and I are trying to figure out a place to live, build a cabin. Somewhere in our native country probably, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, the land we know best, beloved to us. We […]
Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden
Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden Your backyard could be the next front in the war against global warming. During World War I, Americans were encouraged to do their part in the war effort by planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and storing their own fruits and vegetables. The food would go to allies in Europe, where there […]
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges We will not solve climate change and other pressing global threats until we admit, and learn from, the repeated failures of past proclamations and promises. The general public, the American news magazine proclaims in its cover story, ‘The ravaged environment’, ‘has been seized with such anger […]
Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity
Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity Photo Source Ninara | CC BY 2.0 Let me tell you about why I woke up crying today. It has to do with just how close we are to full-blown climate disaster. I was thinking about children who are already experiencing the horrible consequences […]
Connected and vulnerable: Climate change, trade wars and the networked world
Connected and vulnerable: Climate change, trade wars and the networked world The increasing connectedness of the global economic system has long been touted as the path to greater prosperity and peaceful relations among nations and their peoples. There’s just one hitch: Complex systems have more points of failure and also hidden risks that only surface […]
The Colonial Logic of Geoengineering’s “Last Resort”
The Colonial Logic of Geoengineering’s “Last Resort” As panic starts to set in about what little time we have to avert catastrophic climate change, elites have begun in earnest to drum up support for geoengineering fixes – including the fix of injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere. The basic idea behind this relatively cheap, “cost […]
Fracking in the UK
Fracking in the UK Burning fossil fuels is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), and, greenhouse gas emissions (water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O)) are the principle cause of man-made climate change. Given this fact, governments throughout the world should be moving away from fossil fuels and investing […]
In Major Defeat For Trump, Judge Blocks Construction Of Keystone XL Pipeline
In Major Defeat For Trump, Judge Blocks Construction Of Keystone XL Pipeline In a setback for the Trump administration, a federal judge in Montana temporarily halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline late on Thursday on the grounds that the U.S. government did not complete a full analysis of the environmental impact of the […]
Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change
Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change The warning from the world’s top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is both a due and dire recognition of the great task in front of us. What must […]
The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking
The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking I want to believe in eternal economic growth. Given what humanity is facing with climate change and other consequences of our collective consumption, it must be awfully comforting to have faith in a cornucopian future where no one ever goes wanting. Especially if all we have to […]
New findings on ocean warming: 5 questions answered
New findings on ocean warming: 5 questions answered The ocean absorbs about 90 percent of the excess heat produced as climate change warms the earth. Editor’s note: A new study by scientists in the United States, China, France and Germany estimates that the world’s oceans have absorbed much more excess heat from human-induced climate change than […]
Why Permaculture Puts Food First
Why Permaculture Puts Food First “Had we heeded Malthus’s warning and kept the human population to less than one billion, we would not now be facing a torrid future.“ There are seven popular food crops in this picture When I teach permaculture, and now having done more than 50 full design courses, I try to […]
Tree Teachings: How Forests and Wildfires Are Critically Linked
Tree Teachings: How Forests and Wildfires Are Critically Linked First in a series about the work of famed botanist . Diana Beresford-Kroeger: The global forest ‘forecasts our future in every breath it takes.’ I have called up Diana Beresford-Kroeger, the famed Irish botanist and bestselling author, to ask about the megafires that carpeted much of […]
