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What Reporting Looks Like at the End of the World
What Reporting Looks Like at the End of the World Photo source Neville Wootton | CC BY 2.0 This summer has seen another spate of deadly wildfires, from Oregon to Sweden to Greece. The Greek fires encapsulated a popular beach resort killing scores of trapped tourists and pensioners on holiday. Many were forced into the […]
The Burning Planet
The Burning Planet Photo source NOAA Photo Library | CC BY 2.0 A recent UK newspaper headline read “The World’s On Fire,” which is literally true as extraordinary continent-wide wildfires consume the planet, accompanied by unbearable, insufferable, oppressive heat. Europe, North America, Japan, and North Africa are all experiencing unprecedented scorching heat. All of which […]
Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact
Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact Continuing from Part 1: Monster #2 Greenhouse Gases (“GHG”) alter ecosystems. The biggest impact of anthropogenic GHG hits the oceans. There is no doubt about the importance of the oceans as a great sink, 2/3rds of the planet. After all, the oceans have saved humanity’s butt ever since industrialization […]
The Sinister Underbelly of Climate Change Denial
The Sinister Underbelly of Climate Change Denial The last few days of June 2018 saw most people in the United States sweltering in an epic heat wave. High temperatures were uniformly between 90 and 110 degrees in a mind-boggling 17 states [1]. Heat indices in parts of the East and Midwest approached 120 degrees. Heat […]
Diet, Ignorance and the Environmental Catastrophe
Diet, Ignorance and the Environmental Catastrophe Climate Change sounds vast and impersonal, but it’s really a very personal matter; a global crisis caused by the individual actions humanity has collectively taken. All too often such actions proceed from a position of ignorance selfishness and habit, and are undertaken with little or no understanding of the […]
Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact
Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact Photo by Logan Fulcher | CC BY 2.0 Three monster climatic events are currently shaping up to collide. It’ll be like an asteroid collision. In that regard, this article, in two parts, explores real, already happening, indisputable climate change that is starting to take down ecosystems throughout the biosphere. […]
Caught in a Trap of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame, and Denial
Caught in a Trap of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame, and Denial Photo by Marco Verch | CC BY 2.0 Come morning, I throw my covers aside, throw my legs over the edge of the bed, turn on my bedside lamp, turn on my bedside radio for a first dose of the daily news, […]
Oil Companies and Lobbyists Say They’re Ready To Solve Climate Change. Check The Fine Print.
Oil Companies and Lobbyists Say They’re Ready To Solve Climate Change. Check The Fine Print. On Wednesday, former senators Trent Lott (R-MS) and John Breaux (D-LA) announced, with a big public relations blitz, a new campaign, Americans for Carbon Dividends, to address the threat of climate change. The effort is being heralded as a breakthrough by some […]
30 Years Ago Global Warming Became Front-Page News – and Both Republicans and Democrats Took It Seriously
30 Years Ago Global Warming Became Front-Page News – and Both Republicans and Democrats Took It Seriously June 23, 1988 marked the date on which climate change became a national issue. In landmark testimony before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Dr. James Hansen, then director of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies, stated that […]
Our energy challenge in 6 eye-popping charts
Our energy challenge in 6 eye-popping charts Renewable energy is winning and coal is on the skids. Disruption of the fossil fuel industry is well under way, and the global energy system is being decarbonised. We’re right on track, right? To avoid dramatic climate system tipping points, the world needs to decarbonise very quickly and […]
Leaked U.N. climate change report shows inverted thinking on growth
Leaked U.N. climate change report shows inverted thinking on growth The Reuters news service managed a genuine journalistic coup by getting an advance copy of a U.N. climate change report not due out until October. Given what the report says—it’s dire—and the fact that the climate isn’t going to stop changing while the report gets […]
State of the Climate – It’s Alarming!
State of the Climate – It’s Alarming! Photo by Akuppa John Wigham | CC BY 2.0 Stuart Scott of Climate Matters.TV recently interviewed Dr. Peter Wadhams, emeritus professor, Polar Ocean Physics, Cambridge University and author of the acclaimed highly recommended: A Farewell To Ice (Oxford University Press, 2017). In response to the question “what’s your […]
The Battle To Save Our Dying Soil
The Battle To Save Our Dying Soil This camp in southern Spain is finding ways to restore degraded land LA JUNQUERA, Spain ― In this sparsely populated region of rural Murcia in southern Spain, fields of thirsty almond trees eek sustenance out of the dusty soil and pale rocks tumble down slopes onto the sides of […]
The True Cost of Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet, Publishing in June 2018
The True Cost of Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet, Publishing in June 2018 The following is an excerpt from Nourished Planet: Sustainability in the Global Food System, published by Island Press in June of 2018. Nourished Planet was edited by Danielle Nierenberg, president of Food Tank, and produced with support from the Barilla Center […]
Trump Skipping G7 Meeting on Climate, Clean Energy, Oceans
Trump Skipping G7 Meeting on Climate, Clean Energy, Oceans President Donald Trump headed for the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada on Friday but will be leaving before Saturday’s meeting on climate change, clean energy and oceans. The White House said an aide will take Trump’s place, CNN reported. The announcement of his early departure comes amid a brewing war on tariffs. […]
