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Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 1
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 1 Research has powerfully illustrated that a lack of knowledge in domains such as energy and the environment can lead to bad decisions and erroneous beliefs that hinder a society’s ability to create change in domains that require it KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING Rather self-evident, isn’t it? Certainly that […]
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity While we’re discussing education, the theme of the current series of posts here on The Archdruid Report, it’s necessary to point out that there are downsides as well as upsides to take into account. The savant so saturated in abstractions that he’s hopelessly inept at the business of […]
Toward a More Reflective Planet
Toward a More Reflective Planet CAMBRIDGE – The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about three million years ago – a time when sea levels were 10-30 meters higher than they are now. Climate models have long struggled to duplicate those large fluctuations in sea levels – […]
Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to cope with climate change, a ground-breaking scientific study has found. The broad valleys formed by rivers flowing from […]
Disconnect: Congressional hawks hate sustainability, but love military that seeks it
Disconnect: Congressional hawks hate sustainability, but love military that seeks it Recently, I toured a U.S Navy mine sweeper and destroyer during Fleet Week. Just before the tour entrance line a tent with exhibits caught my attention. On the first table were a set of small bottles containing various kinds of liquid fuels, a sampling […]
Oil-Funded Groups Have Spent $2.7 Million To Defeat California Candidates Who Want Climate Action
Oil-Funded Groups Have Spent $2.7 Million To Defeat California Candidates Who Want Climate Action Groups funded largely by oil companies have spent $2.7 million in California to defeat candidates for the state legislature who support strong climate action. The groups are targeting lawmakers who supported S.B. 32 and S.B. 350, both pieces of legislation designed to rein in California’s greenhouse […]
The Boiling Pot
The Boiling Pot On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper prices […]
The faux insurgency of the climate change deniers and the need for closure Climate change deniers like to style themselves as latter-day Copernicuses and Galileos, lone visionaries bucking the established wisdom of the ages embodied back then in the teachings of the Catholic Church. There is a certain appeal to imagining oneself as isolated and embattled but unbowed. […]
Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy
Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy “We’re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the ground…that’s not a position.” This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was asked what he thought of the “growing movement of keeping oil […]
Global Warming Accelerates
Global Warming Accelerates New climate data shows that the global warming crisis is worse – and accelerating at a faster pace – than was understood as recently as last year’s climate-change conference in Paris, writes Nicholas C. Arguimbau. The participants at the Paris climate change conference saw themselves produce “an agreement hailed as ‘historic, durable […]
Climate change impacts on transportation 2008 U.S. Senate hearing
Climate change impacts on transportation 2008 U.S. Senate hearing Senate 110-1199. June 24, 2008. Climate change impacts on the transportation sector. U.S. Senate Hearing. Excerpts from this 135 page document follow. DANIEL K. INOUYE, U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII The transportation sector is a major indicator of the overall economic health of our Nation. Given that fact, […]
We are all Albertans now
We are all Albertans now It would be easy–too easy–to point to the wildfires which have devastated huge areas of northern Alberta near Fort McMurray, the hub of tar sands mining in Canada, and say that Albertans are reaping what they have sown. Yes, it’s true that climate change is coming to one of the very […]
Shock impacts hit Greenland’s ice
Shock impacts hit Greenland’s ice An aerial view of icebergs floating in Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord. Image: Mark Garten/UN Photo New research indicates that melting of the Northern Hemisphere’s biggest ice sheet is being accelerated by the seismic impact of waves crashing against Greenland’s coastline. LONDON, 14 May, 2016 – Seismic waves that race through Greenland’s bedrock may […]
