As did the Dodo, so shall we go-go
What is the IPCC and what does the 2018 special report mean for us? The report describes the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of
“We thought this was a relatively pristine environment.”
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
Chat about how to live at the edge of extinction at SOAK 2018, regional burning man in the White Valley in Oregon.
For those who watched the original of this video, this is a revision to correct an error I made in the first version. I stated that there were 80 Billion livestock animals on earth. In fact the figure is
More about the Robbers Cave Experiment: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2… More about the fossil fuel industry and tobacco companies using the same tactics: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar… Peter Doran’s Climate Science Survey: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c… Climate change consensus same as smoking and cancer: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar… Why CO2 alone
We continue to pollute the air and the oceans as if that is our God-given right. We find the most bizarre excuses to abuse and to fight each other. Nation states install “eyes in the sky” with the capacity to monitor individuals’ every movement, and execute them at whim with drone-delivered precision.
In Maryland’s Dorchester County sea level rise has already profoundly altered the landscape, and how people go about their daily lives. The similarities of their landscape with the low lying “reclaimed” marshlands in South Dunedin and in Thames are
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.
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
If a picture is worth a thousand words… Credit to Global Citizen & Joe McCarthy