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‘Climate Crisis’ Open Letter to Media: Who’s Responded (So Far)
‘Climate Crisis’ Open Letter to Media: Who’s Responded (So Far) Five-point plan on Tyee finds allies in CWA union and top US journos. Now the responses are rolling in, some from beyond Canada’s borders. Here’s how Holman came to write the widely shared letter and what it’s helping to trigger. As record wildfires raged out […]
War is War on Mother Earth
War is War on Mother Earth Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair “In order to achieve the massive systemic and cultural transformations required for mitigating climate change…we’re going to have to deal with the socially sanctioned, institutionalized violence perpetrated by U.S. foreign policy that is pouring fuel on the fire of global warming.” – Stacy Bannerman Climate […]
Timidity and Palliatives While the Planet Burns
Timidity and Palliatives While the Planet Burns Photograph Source: Eric Fisk – Public Domain The best conditions for genuine discussion, for me at least, is during a feast of good food and drink. Ancient Greeks called that symposium. The wisdom behind the tradition of symposium – millennia ago and today — is simple. Friends and […]
Pompeo’s Arctic Shipping Lanes
Pompeo’s Arctic Shipping Lanes Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair America’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking at the prestigious Arctic Council biannual meeting in Finland, christened the Arctic meltdown: “A wonderful economic opportunity for international trade.” In a nutshell, here’s a critique of the Secretary’s advice: An ice-free Arctic reduces travel time for shipping lanes […]
Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of “Deadly” Heat Waves
Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of “Deadly” Heat Waves Photograph Source: Intothewoods7 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Sixteen year old Greta Thunberg’s School Strike for Climate generation seems likely to witness the beginnings of a grueling, traumatizing, brutal, heat-driven reversal of the human population boom. Why? Because we’ve continued to pack the atmosphere with a little more […]
A War Reporter Covers “The End of Ice”–And It Will Change the Way You Think About Climate Catastrophe
2Photos: Getty Images Animation: The Intercept A WAR REPORTER COVERS “THE END OF ICE” — AND IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT CLIMATE CATASTROPHE FOCUSING ON BREATH and gratitude, Dahr Jamail’s latest book, “The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption,” stitches together personal introspection and gut-wrenching […]
Report: Big Oil Is Spending ‘’Too Much’’ On New Oil Production
Report: Big Oil Is Spending ‘’Too Much’’ On New Oil Production Big Oil plans to spend nearly US$5 trillion in capital expenditure over the next decade, much of which would go into adding new production. Yet this money will also bring the world farther from the Paris Agreement climate targets, a report from energy industry-focused […]
The Earth for Their Possession
The Earth for Their Possession Book Cover I was in Hawaii to discuss ‘history from below’ together with that powerful practitioner of said history, scholarly abolitionist, writer, and colleague, Marcus Rediker. How is ‘history from below’ to be distinguished from similar forms of history writing, such as people’s history, radical history, labor history, social history, […]
Still Snowing in the Heart of America – The Longer Winter & Shorter Summer Cycle
Still Snowing in the Heart of America – The Longer Winter & Shorter Summer Cycle COMMENT: Well you said this winter would be long and the summer shorter. It is still snowing here in the heart of America. It looks like your computer is correct again. Instead of funding research for billion dollars to pretend there is […]
Polar Warning: Even Antarctica’s Coldest Region Is Starting to Melt
Polar Warning: Even Antarctica’s Coldest Region Is Starting to Melt East Antarctica is the coldest spot on earth, long thought to be untouched by warming. But now the glaciers and ice shelves in this frigid region are showing signs of melting, a development that portends dramatic rises in sea levels this century and beyond. No […]
Half a degree may make heat impact far worse
Half a degree may make heat impact far worse The US south-west may have more drought and forest fires with 0.5°C more heat. Image: By RD Gray on Unsplash Half a degree of warming doesn’t sound like much. But there is fresh evidence that it could make a huge difference to rainfall and drought. LONDON, 4 April, 2019 − Japanese […]
Climate Research Needs to Change to Help Communities Plan for the Future
Climate Research Needs to Change to Help Communities Plan for the Future Climate change is a chronic challenge — it is here now, and will be with us throughout this century and beyond. As the U.S.government’s National Climate Assessment report made clear, it’s already affecting people throughout the United States and around the world. Warmer temperatures are making heat waves […]
Arctic Permafrost No Longer Freezes … Even in Winter
Arctic Permafrost No Longer Freezes … Even in Winter Global warming is starting to hit hard like there’s no tomorrow, and at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, there may not be a tomorrow, as emissions continue setting new records year-by-year, expected to hit a 62-year record in 2019. So much for the Paris […]
Climate Change, Midwest Floods & Food Shortages
Climate Change, Midwest Floods & Food Shortages The Great Flood of 1927, flooded the lower Mississippi River valley in April 1927. It was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. More than 23,000 square miles of land was submerged, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and around 250 people died. The flooding impacted […]
The methane menace
The methane menace The concentration of methane in the atmosphere has been increasing for more than a decade and now appears to be accelerating. The rising concentration is worldwide, but is more pronounced in the tropics and northern mid-latitudes. What has caused this increase is not yet well understood. It is almost certainly due to […]
