As did the Dodo, so shall we go-go
The announcement that 11 billion tons dropped off the Greenland Ice Sheet in one day turned out to be a made-for-television example of the effects of climate change. Dramatic videos of water pouring off the glaciers went viral. But apart from
The most rapidly changing state in the U.S. has no sea ice within some 150 miles of its shores, according to high-resolution sea ice analysis from the National Weather Service. The big picture is clear: After an Arctic summer with well above-average
Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, just as the US, Europe, and India are experiencing this Summer
Europe’s historic heat wave is heading north this weekend, to the relief of the continent, but its path will send it right towards the Arctic — where it could speed up the melting of sea ice and coincide with
MIT scientist Daniel Rothman explains that the Earth’s oceans may be at the ‘precipice of excitation’ due to carbon in the oceans, which would unleash a mass extinction of life.
In just 30 years, one city in five will find themselves “in a climatic regime that does not currently exist on the planet today.”
Acidification is proceeding extremely fast today, in what is a human-caused sixth mass extinction. Some of the rapidly rising carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reacts with water forming carbonic acid, dissociating to bicarbonate ions, then carbonate ions, making the oceans much more acidic.
A methane burst from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could happen at any time and needs only a trigger. That’s the conclusion of the world’s leading research scientist in that region – Natalia Shakhova. On 5th June Shakhova and
I’m assaulted by the smell of lawn chemicals as soon as I go in the door of Lowe’s or Home Depot. At Costco, I found myself in line at the checkout counter behind a man who had a huge bag of grass seed that was already treated with fertilizer and Roundup.
On our current trajectory, the report warns, “planetary and human systems reaching a ‘point of no return’ by mid-century, in which the prospect of a largely uninhabitable Earth leads to the breakdown of nations and the international order.”
Global Warming and Climate Change have reached tipping points we may not be able to recover from. Does this mean that human civilization won’t survive rising temperatures caused by CO2 Emissions? Author and activist Dahr Jamail explains what the
Mother Nature bats last — and She’s coming out swinging.