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Clavichords and Climate Change
Clavichords and Climate Change Bainbridge Island, Washington. The Cascade Mountains were dusted with snow this week, less a harbinger of the coming winter than of ominous larger changes in the climate. According to many, the snow came “too early,” especially considering the apocalyptic smoke from the fires of summer just gone. The Washington of my […]
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know The graph above shows methane concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere over the past 10,000+ years: 8000 BCE to 2018 CE. The units are parts per billion (ppb). The year 1800 is marked with a circle. Note the ominous spike. As a result of increasing human-caused emissions, atmospheric methane […]
Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take to Save the Planet
Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take to Save the Planet Humanity faces a multi-faceted crisis. Endless wars of imperial aggression, both overt and covert– from Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan to Yemen, Palestine and Central and South America. These conflagrations compel those at the bottom of the economic pyramid to fight and die […]
Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along
Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along It took oil company Shell more than 16 years to directly warn its shareholders that climate policy posed a financial risk to the company’s business model despite knowing — in private and for decades — about the relationship between its […]
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us If climate disaster has left us with no future do we still feel responsible to the earth that outlives us? Or do we say “who cares?” If we say “who cares?” then our sense of responsibility was never anything more than […]
Hothouse Earth
Hothouse Earth An interesting new study: “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene,” Will Steffen, Johan Rockström et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Aug. 6, 2018 lays out the pathway for Earth entering a Hothouse Climate State. “Our planet is still in danger of becoming a ‘Hothouse’ Earth despite our […]
Climate change in the Anthropocene: An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?
Climate change in the Anthropocene: An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth? Can the global climate be stabilized before runaway change creates conditions that are too hot for human civilization and deadly for most species? Leading Earth System scientists warn: “The Earth System may be approaching a planetary threshold that could lock in a continuing rapid […]
The Lasting Condition: Drought in Australia
The Lasting Condition: Drought in Australia Humans are a funny species. They create settlements along fault lines that, on moving, can create catastrophe, killing thousands. They construct homes facing rivers that will, at some point, break their banks, carrying of their precious property. Importantly, they return in the aftermath. Existence continues. The same follows certain […]
Is the Climate Change Preparation for the Pole Shift?
Is the Climate Change Preparation for the Pole Shift? A reader sent this is where ice storms are happening daily this summer in Calgary, Canada. In Bavaria, where I am currently, it is the hottest in 200 years. The temperature is in the 90s (32c) and hotels, restaurants do not have air conditioning because it […]
Time For Some Climate Honesty
kienyke.com Time For Some Climate Honesty Half-truths are doing no good Let’s assume that you have doubts about ‘global warming’. Some people do and, truthfully, we utterly lack the ability to accurately model how much warming will happen, where and by when (emphasis on accurately). The reason is not for lack of trying or continual learning […]
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature” The skyline of Manhattan at sunset in New York, May 23, 2018. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images THIS SUNDAY, THE entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s, a […]
Crime of the 21st Century
Crime of the 21st Century Perpetrators of Apocalypse, or, The Seven Circles of Hell Gustave Doré Time to have a talk / it will not be fun / buckle up. Feel free to skip to the end at any point for pleasant pictures of adorable animals. You and I are witnessing the twenty-first century’s great […]
The End of the Line – A Climate in Crisis
The End of the Line – A Climate in Crisis Train Wreck, Montparnasse, 1895 The world of academia is starting to pick up on the concept that humanity is unknowingly cruising on a train ride to doomsday, a surefire encounter with collapse of society based upon climate crises brought on by exponential climate change. The […]
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 […]
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. […]
