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From drought to deluge: an ecological approach to California’s water crisis
From drought to deluge: an ecological approach to California’s water crisis Dry creek bed in California. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Climate change is the greatest threat to human civilization and a major driver of droughts, floods, fires, food system collapse and economic destabilization. Basing our infrastructure on fossil fuel technology that is imposed upon rather than […]
What does Climate Change Look Like?
What does Climate Change Look Like? “Our goal is not to amass information or satisfy curiosity, but rather to become painfully aware, to dare turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it” –Pope Francis Several weeks ago, I […]
Wisconsin Groundwater Dispute Is a Warning Signal for the Eastern United States
Wisconsin Groundwater Dispute Is a Warning Signal for the Eastern United States Water problems in states east of the Mississippi River mirror those of the dry American West. Photo © Codi Kozacek / Circle of Blue Caroline Lake sits near the Lake Superior shore in northern Wisconsin. The state is one of many east of […]
River Supplying Water To Alberta Oil Sands Operations At Risk From Drought
River Supplying Water To Alberta Oil Sands Operations At Risk From Drought A new study casts doubt on the long-term ability of the Athabasca River to supply the water Alberta’s oil sands industry relies on. Water is allocated to oil sands operations based on river flow data collected since the 1950s, but that doesn’t necessarily […]
More Evidence We’ve Reached a “Peak Water” Tipping Point in California
More Evidence We’ve Reached a “Peak Water” Tipping Point in California March in Yosemite, four years running (source; click to enlarge) It may be a see-saw course, but it’s riding an uphill train. A bit ago I wrote, regarding climate and tipping points: The concept of “tipping point” — a change beyond which there’s no turning […]
California Lake Mysteriously Runs Dry Overnight, Thousands Of Fish Dead
California Lake Mysteriously Runs Dry Overnight, Thousands Of Fish Dead Perhaps it is because the world has grown habituated to its unique set of “liquidity” problems, but California’s record, and ongoing, drought has not been receiving much media coverage in recent weeks. Perhaps it should be, because according to a report by CBS Sacramento, the mystery that […]
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade Anti-desertification sand fences in Morocco. (Anderson Sady / CC BY-SA 3.0) Fifty million refugees fleeing hunger and poverty could be created in the next decade unless the world’s land degradation crisis is addressed, according to a new U.N.-backed study. The report, titled “The Value of Land,” estimates that […]
Why America’s Deadly Love Affair with Bottled Water Has to Stop
Why America’s Deadly Love Affair with Bottled Water Has to Stop Last year, Americans drank more than 10 billion gallons of bottled water. Wildlife and the environment paid. This spring, as California withered in its fourth year of drought and mandatory water restrictions were enacted for the first time in the state’s history, a news story broke revealing that […]
Anthropocene climate, part two: Four degrees of devastation
Anthropocene climate, part two: Four degrees of devastation If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t stopped soon, unprecedented and deadly heat waves will become the new normal in most of the world Part one of this article discussed James Hansen’s demonstration that a relatively small increase in global average temperature – under 1°C – has already produced a significant […]
Shock Videos from California: Wildfire Evacuation as a Small Town Burns to the Ground
Shock Videos from California: Wildfire Evacuation as a Small Town Burns to the Ground However prepared you think you are for an emergency wildfire evacuation, when it looks like you’re driving through the outer edges of Hell, it’s going to be a scary ride. Wildfires are a real threat every year in California, but this […]
Harper’s Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
Harper’s Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record Scorching effects of rising temperatures add to chaos in the Middle East, scientists say. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is right about the Syrian refugee crisis, for all the wrong reasons. His government is being battered by outrage over Canada’s wretched response to this humanitarian emergency. […]
Cities Are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, Not a Nuisance
Cities Are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, Not a Nuisance From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising ways urban areas are dealing with water woes Memorial Day barbecues and parades were thwarted this year in Houston when a massive storm dumped more than 10 inches of rain in two days, creating a Waterworld of flooded […]
Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change?
Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change? Smokey haze, intense heat, encampments of evacuated residents next to the highway: these were the conditions that greeted Renee Lertzman when she recently drove through Oregon. It’s no wonder why the environmental psychology researcher and professor resorts to the term “apocalyptic” to describe […]
California Drought and Strengthening El Nino Accelerate Statewide Water Transition
California Drought and Strengthening El Nino Accelerate Statewide Water Transition New infrastructure, laws, and practices help the state respond to hydrologic extremes, but more are needed. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue California’s canal system moves water hundreds of miles from the Sierra Nevada foothills to Los Angeles and San Diego. Adapting […]
Why Has The Government Stopped Reporting Lake Mead Water Levels?
Why Has The Government Stopped Reporting Lake Mead Water Levels? For months we have been warning that “Vegas is screwed” as water levels continue to plunge in its most crucial reservoirs. Non-government experts are waving red flags that something must be done (and even NASA scientists fear the worst) while the government remains quiet. And then just 3 months […]
