As did the Dodo, so shall we go-go
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
A leading British global investment firm has a warning for its clients: Our planet is on course to experience a rise in global average temperatures of nearly 8℃ (14℉) by the end of the century.
If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. It is, I promise, worse than you think.
I’m often accused of downplaying the horrors associated with the breakdown of this type of living arrangements. In a similar vein, I am accused of failing to provide the mechanism by which 7.5 billion people will soon die. I’m here to set both records straight.
Bill McKibben (http://350.org), Jim Hansen, Katharine Hayhoe, and others give us an update on the science and solutions to climate change. You can find Bill’s books at Amazon.com.
A key idea in climate science is that the system contains multiple feedback loops, that can make warming worse. For instance, as white, reflective ice is replaced by dark, heat-absorbing water – more of the sun’s warmth is absorbed
The US national security industry is planning for the impact of an unprecedented global food crisis lasting as long as a decade, according to reports by a government contractor. The studies published by CNA Corporation in December 2015, unreported until now,
Berkeley Lab Scientist, Bill Collins, discusses what we know about climate change, how we know it, and what we can do about it. Collins serves as the director for the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab. He
Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences,reviews up-to-date data on temperatures of air and water, rates of ice losses and of sea-level rise and illustrate the driving forces of greenhouse gases in an energy-balance model of Earth.
“The Crisis of Civilization” highlights the overwhelming amount of scientific information pointing to human extinction by 2030.
There is a lot of debate about the so-called tipping point for the Earth’s climate, where scientists say warming the atmosphere two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels may cause irreversible changes that could lead to global disasters. While the
Every hour, Louisiana loses a football field worth of land to the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to rising sea levels and canals dredged by oil and gas companies. At this rate, most of southeastern Louisiana not protected by levees