After the Arctic Ice Melts
Its my opinion that the intent of this interview is to understate the severity of the problem. What is the point of making a few extra dollars when you’re on death’s doorstep? Make no mistake — this is a
Tag: Habitat Loss
The Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than We Thought!
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
Is Greenland Adjusting To Abrupt Climate Change? Can We???
Climate change is a daily reality up in Greenland. This week we look at the winners and losers in this global adaptation challenge and get a glimpse of what’s coming our way in the next few years.
Water Scarcity – A Looming Predicament!
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
Busting Climate Change (Denial) Myths
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
In Maryland Sea Level Rise Is Happening Now
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
Climate Change Is Already Irreversible
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…
Why Everything Will Collapse
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.
Abrupt Anthropogenic Climate Change
If I had a motto it would be “Habitat, Habitat, Habitat” because that’s what really matters to all animals and plants — to all organisms in fact — including human animals.
Scientific Reticence: A Threat to Humanity and Nature
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
15,372 Scientists Just Signed a Letter Calling Climate Change Impact ‘Catastrophic’
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
What Happens When The Permafrost Thaws?
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.