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Climate scientists: Ban solar geoengineering
Climate scientists: Ban solar geoengineering ‘The risks are poorly understood and can never be fully known’ The following open letter was issued by an international coalition of prominent scientists and governance scholars on January 17, 2022. It calls for an international treaty to outlaw attempts to reduce global heating by blocking sunlight from reaching earth. […]
The IPCC Report: Key Findings and Radical Implications
The IPCC Report: Key Findings and Radical Implications Beyond the headlines: what climate science now shows about Earth’s future. Can we act in time? The UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its latest comprehensive report on the state of the earth’s climate. The much-anticipated report dominated the headlines for a few days […]
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset It’s a corporate takeover of global governance that affects our food, our data and our vaccines Last year’s WEF summit had the theme ’the Great Reset’ EThamPhoto / Alamy Stock Photo ‘The Great Reset’ conspiracy theories don’t seem to want to die. The theories […]
Facing the Anthropocene: An Update
Facing the Anthropocene: An Update Recent scientific work strengthens and extends the arguments in Ian Angus’s pathbreaking book on fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth System I’ve been pleased and deeply honored by the international response to my book Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016). […]
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean.
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves “Triple Crisis” has been published in three parts Part One: Corrosive Seas Part Two: Running Low on Oxygen Part Three: The […]
Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life
Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life Worldwide, there are now over a thousand coastal areas where fish can’t breathe. The nitrogen that makes crops grow is also destroying offshore ecosystems. “Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on […]
Nitrogen glut: Too much of a good thing is deadly for the biosphere
Nitrogen glut: Too much of a good thing is deadly for the biosphere Abbreviations in this articleCBD UN Convention on Biological Diversity.CO2 carbon dioxide.N nitrogen.N2 dinitrogen (inert nitrogen gas). N2O nitrous oxide.NH3 ammonia.NO, NO2, NOx nitrous oxides.NO3 nitrate.Nr reactive nitrogen.O3 ozone.P phosphorous.PM particulate matter Part Two of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself. […]
Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth’s life support systems
Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth’s life support systems Planetary Boundaries. Nitrogen and biodiversity are farther out of safe limits than any others (Rockstrom et. al, Nature, 2009) Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself. Continuing our series […]
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 Keeling Curve at 60: A portrait of climate crisis
The Keeling Curve at 60: A portrait of climate crisis If you’ve ever wondered what a scientific representation of metabolic rift might look like, check out this graph. We are approaching the sixtieth birthday of the Keeling Curve. It is such a stunning example of important and clearly presented science that it has been designated […]
The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world
The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world Andreas Malm’s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action Andreas Malm THE PROGRESS OF THIS STORM Nature and society in a warming world Verso Books, 2018 reviewed by Ian […]
Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has “direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind.” Two days ago, C&C published a reply to a biology professor who shrugged off species extinction as unimportant because evolution will replace the lost organisms. This report, adapted from a Technical […]
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 […]
Anthropocene climate: The new (deadly) normal
Anthropocene climate: The new (deadly) normal A temperature increase of less than one degree has already disrupted the global climate system, and this is only the beginning. Will the Anthropocene bring a totally new climate regime? Part One: HOW BAD CAN ONE DEGREE BE? Climate negotiators have adopted 2°C as the maximum increase in the global average temperature. […]
