As did the Dodo, so shall we go-go
The IPCC has been criticized for being “too alarmist.” If anything, it is the opposite. With their latest report, they have been overly conservative. A decade ago, the “father of global warming”—the first scientist to sound the alarm on
In places around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to go dry, people are being forced to confront a growing crisis. Much of the planet relies on groundwater. And in places
You know things are really bad when even the pope is warning that unless governments take ACD seriously, Earth will be nothing more than “rubble” and “refuse.”
Chat about how to live at the edge of extinction at SOAK 2018, regional burning man in the White Valley in Oregon.
It turns out that while the Arctic and Greenland get most of the press attention partly because of their proximity to Canada and the United States, it’s actually Antarctica all the way at the other end of the globe
Carbon capture paper: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S… – Solomon paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1704 – Further paper on carbon capture: http://science.sciencemag.org/content… – Species extinction due to climate change: http://science.sciencemag.org/content… and https://www.theguardian.com/environme…
If you sense that the future looks bleak, that there is little chance that this whole mess will end in joy and good humor, that there is a tiny chance that we will escape a systemic collapse of the thermo-industrial civilization, you are not far from reality.
James Hansen, Pam Peterson, and Philip Duffy discuss how the hesitancy among scientists to express the gravity of our situation is a major block to our understanding and response to climate change. The reticence arises from political pressure, institutional
More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries released a letter earlier this week warning about the escalating dangers of climate change. The letter is meant to reaffirm another letter signed by more than 1,700 scientists 25 years ago. The nearly 10-fold increase
Almost half of Canada sits on permanently frozen land called permafrost, but climate change is causing it to thaw and erode rapidly. W5’s Avery Haines investigates a looming ecological disaster that poses a threat to the entire world.
If a picture is worth a thousand words… Credit to Global Citizen & Joe McCarthy
Dr. James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, discusses the urgent need to radically change our relationship with the planet. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the accelerating pace of