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An Unprecedented Future
An Unprecedented Future I can see The Age of Consequences from my home. We live on a former ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico, that is now a subdivision with more than two thousand houses. Due to its proximity to a center of colonial Spanish, Mexican, and American administrations, as well as the Santa Fe Trail, the […]
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 […]
Leaving Our Children Nothing
Leaving Our Children Nothing Our generation has a unique opportunity. If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse-gas emissions, no poverty, and no biodiversity loss. That is the course that world leaders set when they met at the United Nations in […]
A New Global Tinderbox: The World’s Northern Forests
A New Global Tinderbox: The World’s Northern Forests Rapidly rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increased lightning strikes are leading to ever-larger wildfires in the northern forests of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, with potentially severe ecological consequences. Ted Schuur has spent the better part of his career making the connection between climate change and wildfires that […]
Leading Cause of Climate Change is Animal Agriculture, not Fossil Fuels
Leading Cause of Climate Change is Animal Agriculture, not Fossil Fuels There is some kind of “cowspiracy” going on… Animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change, but no one seems to want to address it. The documentary Cowspiracy, available on Netflix and through the film’s website, etc., does, and is worth a watch, particularly for […]
Mark Carney wants business to calculate the fossil fuel future: Don Pittis
Mark Carney wants business to calculate the fossil fuel future: Don Pittis Bank of England governor’s climate change warning puts the focus on the bottom line No doubt Bank of England governor Mark Carney has personal views on whether or not climate change is a danger to his children’s future. Most thoughtful people do. But when the […]
The Exxons of agriculture
The Exxons of agriculture Credit: Pawel Kuczynski (http://www.pawelkuczynski.com). Read the media release about this report here It goes without saying that oil and coal companies should not have a seat at the policy table for decisions on climate change. Their profits depend on business-as-usual and they’ll do everything in their power to undermine meaningful […]
Tim Flannery: ‘The Next Decade Is Going to Be Really Tough’
Tim Flannery: ‘The Next Decade Is Going to Be Really Tough’ A brutally honest conversation with the world-leading climate thinker, who speaks in Vancouver Oct. 14. Tim Flannery didn’t become one of the world’s most influential climate thinkers by sugar-coating the truth. “If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century,” […]
Goldman Strikes Again: Did A Probe Into “Global Warming” Fraud Cost A Prime Minister’s Job
Goldman Strikes Again: Did A Probe Into “Global Warming” Fraud Cost A Prime Minister’s Job When Tony Abbott became Australia’s prime minister in September 2013, the chain of events that would prematurely end his tenure may already have been in motion: just a few months later China would order its out of control shadow banking […]
Forest loss and land degradation fuel climate crisis
Forest loss and land degradation fuel climate crisis UN studies show that the combined effects of degraded farmland and the felling and burning of trees are costing the planet trillions of dollars in ecosystem losses. The planet’s forests have dwindled by 3% − equivalent almost to the land area of South Africa − in the last 25 years, […]
The world could completely abandon fossil fuels by 2050
The world could completely abandon fossil fuels by 2050 Climate summit commitments judged insufficient to avoid warming, divestment from fossil fuel investment soars into the trillions, and the world could be running on 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050. Warming unavoidable? Just over two months from now, representatives from nations around the world will […]
Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist
Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist Paul Ehrlich writes in Nature Climate Change that Francis is wrong to fight climate change without also addressing the strain from population growth on resources One of America’s leading scientists has dismissed as “raving nonsense” the pope’s call for action on climate […]
Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns
Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns An astonishing 720 million people around the world face falling back into extreme poverty unless we tackle climate change immediately, warns a new report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at […]
There Are 800 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Around The World
There Are 800 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Around The World There are 800 different programs around the world that subsidize fossil fuels, according to a new report from the OECD. The OECD released the report ahead of the international climate change negotiations set to take place in Paris in December, where the world has a “moral imperative to […]
