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Cli-fi is all the rage
Cli-fi is all the rage The Four Horsemen: Eco-apocalypse appeals to writers – and readers. Image: Viktor M Vasnetsov via Wikimedia Commons Need a last-minute present? Stuck for some new year reading material? Then how about a thriller on a world in climate-caused turmoil? LONDON, 26 December, 2015 – It’s some time in the not too distant future. […]
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind? A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored. Climate change is a global process that plays out on the ground in dramatically different ways based on where, and how, we live on that […]
Terror, climate chaos, financial crisis are the costs of ‘doing business’
Terror, climate chaos, financial crisis are the costs of ‘doing business’ The techno-narcissism of predatory neoliberal capitalism is locked into an endless war with the bastard monster of its own creation – Islamic State Fifteen years into the 21st century, humanity has made little progress in addressing major threats to civilisation. In fact, on terrorism, climate […]
Too Little, Too Late
Too Little, Too Late Last week, after a great deal of debate, the passengers aboard the Titanic voted to impose modest limits sometime soon on the rate at which water is pouring into the doomed ship’s hull. Despite the torrents of self-congratulatory rhetoric currently flooding into the media from the White House and an assortment of groups […]
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter Summer and winter, wet and dry, high and low, the Arctic tundra continues to emit methane. Image: Bureau of Land Management (Delta WSR) via Wikimedia Commons Methane, a key greenhouse gas, is released from Arctic soils not only in the short summer period but during the bitterly cold winters […]
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too? Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 180 KB) As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising. Each new release of data on melting glaciers and extreme weather seems more dire than […]
Warming lakes speed up methane emissions
Warming lakes speed up methane emissions A fishing trip on Lake Tanganyika ends: The reduced productivity caused by warming may cut the amount of food available to fish. Image: Worldtraveller via Wikimedia Commons The world’s lakes are heating up fast, threatening the fish on which millions depend and rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions. LONDON, 21 December, 2015 – […]
ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals
ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals The day before global leaders and diplomats passed a climate change deal in Paris at the United Nations climate summit, the U.S. House of Representatives — in a 256-158 vote — authorized the final text of a bill that has a provision preventing climate change to […]
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind? A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored. Climate change is a global process that plays out on the ground in dramatically different ways based on where, and how, we live on that […]
Why Are People Cheering Alberta’s Climate Plan?
Why Are People Cheering Alberta’s Climate Plan? Notley didn’t slay province’s CO2 dragon. She blinked, aiding pipelines and bitumen. Albert Premier Rachel Notley: on close inspection, her NDP government’s plan is geared to warming public to new pipelines. Photo: Dave Cournoyer via Flickr. Creative Commons licensed. I had to do a bit of a personal […]
Everyone is the Mother of Victory
Everyone is the Mother of Victory Everyone is the mother of victory; No one is the father of defeat. Do we claim COP21 as a success, and risk watching it being used by fossil fuel failures to carry on burning humanity, and so become complicit in defeat? Do we claim COP21 was a failure, and risk being […]
Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism
Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism Faith in an ideology based on a desire for power over others and the need to feel personally superior without any legitimate accomplishment is perhaps the most dangerous state of being an individual or society can adopt. I would refer to such a mindset as “zealotry,” an […]
Answering For Climate Change: A Peruvian Farmer Sues an Energy Giant
ANSWERING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: A PERUVIAN FARMER SUES AN ENERGY GIANT Saul Luciano Lliuya lives near Huaraz, a city in the Andes. Huaraz may not exist much longer, thanks to the swiftly melting Churup Glacier. The glacier feeds a lake which has grown more than thirty times in volume over the past four decades, and […]
COP21 and “4 per thousand” – Storing Carbon in the Soil.
COP21 and “4 per thousand” – Storing Carbon in the Soil. It would have been a remarkable oversight, had not our use of the land and its soils featured among the discussions about climate change mitigation in Paris at COP21. However, at the conference was hosted a side-event and official launch of the “4 per thousand” […]
