Tuesday
Jul202010
Earth's Upper Atmosphere Collapses - Nobody Knows Why
July 20, 2010 The thermosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction, the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads.
Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
Entries in Climate Change (215)
July 20, 2010 Tuesday
Jul202010
Chris Hedges: Calling All Future-Eaters
July 20, 2010 In the past when civilizations went belly up through greed, mismanagement and the exhaustion of natural resources, human beings migrated somewhere else to pillage anew. But this time the game is over. There is nowhere else to go. The industrialized nations spent the last century seizing half the planet and dominating most of the other half.
Thursday
Jul152010
Dyer’s Convincing Global-Warming Vision
July 15, 2010 Until very recently, global warming never struck me as the great issue of the day.However, a new book, "Climate Wars," by the London-based journalist Gwynne Dyer, has abruptly changed my mind. For if Dyer's warnings are correct, the greatest dangers from global warming are the ones that most concern me in the present: more destructive wars with higher casualties and an even greater widening of the divide between rich and poor, with the former able to buy protection and the latter unable to do so.
Wednesday
Jul072010
Over 25% of flowers face extinction – many before they are even discovered
July 7, 2010 Scientists say human activity could spell end for a quarter of all flowering plants, with huge impact on food chain
Tuesday
Jul062010
Global Emissions Targets Will Lead to 4C Temperature Rise, Say Studies
July 6, 2010 Studies predict major extinctions and collapse of Greenland ice sheet with temperatures rising well above UN targets
Friday
Jun252010
Human race 'will be extinct within 100 years', claims leading scientist
June 25, 2010 Professor Frank Fenner has warned that the human race can not survive. As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction.
Thursday
Jun172010
Paul Wapner: Humility in a Climate Age
June 17, 2010 There is a battle going on for the soul of environmentalism. How it plays out will determine our ability to respond to a whole host of environmental dilemmas, especially climate change.
Monday
Jun142010
Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy of Doubt
June 14, 2010 For years, free-market fundamentalists opposed to government regulation have sought to create doubt in the public’s mind about the dangers of smoking, acid rain, and ozone depletion. Now they have turned those same tactics on the issue of global warming and on climate scientists, with significant success.
Thursday
Jun102010
Dennis Kucinich: We Have Disassociated Ourselves from Nature
June 10, 2010 I rise in support of the resolution to name June 8th as World Ocean Day, but for the last fifty days, and for the next six months at least, every other day is going to be ‘Ruin our Ocean’s Day.’
Thursday
Jun102010
Bill McKibben: Missing the Real Drama of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout
June 10, 2010 When a well started spewing oil off Santa Barbara in 1969, it spurred the first Earth Day, which in turn launched the environmental movement and a fundamental questioning of the balance between humans and the rest of nature. It turned out, in other words, to be a real Moment.
