Ocean Warming: the Most Dangerous Challenge
Up to now, most of the heat being generated by our industrial civilization has been being quietly absorbed by the oceans. But the oceans are now at a tipping point.
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Climate Change: from War to Brain Damage
As climate change accelerates, our warming planet is driving crises that range from war on one side of the globe to brain-damaged babies on the other. A few reports from recent…
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Climate News to Make Your Blood Boil
What a week for climate change. A blizzard of new studies and reports. Let’s start in the Middle East – you know, that place where we dig up more oil than anywhere else in…
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Ocean Circulation May Be Shutting Down
Remember the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow, where fresh water from melting polar ice pours into the North Atlantic, pushing down the warm salt water and causing ocean currents…
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Almost Toast
You might reasonably assume that the red line in this diagram illustrates what happens if humankind takes no action at all on climate change. But no, what the red line actually…
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What Really Sparked the War in Syria
Satellite image showing Syria at focal point of Middle East drought. It’s horrific, intractable, seemingly endless … and quite possibly the shape of other wars to come.…
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Climate Change for Dummies
Global Warming As Sung by a Violin
Move Over, H7N9 – Here Comes MERS
The Crystal Catastrophe Cruise
What do you call a luxury ship with 1,070 people paying up to $120,000 each for a cruise through the once-impenetrable Northwest Passage?
Floods, Fires & Earth Overshoot Day
Overall, there was hardly anywhere that didn’t have some kind of weather-related drama going on.
Meanwhile, on the South China Sea . . .
A classic case of international greed in the name of economic “progress” that’s destroying vast numbers of animals and their homes.
The New Tree of Life
The Tree of Life, a diagram that shows branches of life on Earth, has just changed radically. The dominant life form on Planet Earth is actually bacteria.
Top Scientist Predicts RAPID Ocean Rise
World-renowned climate scientist Dr. James Hansen is predicting a rapid ocean rise of 20 to 30 feet – enough to submerge every coastal city on Earth – along with catastrophic shutting down of ocean circulation, leading to massive storms and other climate upheavals. And the key word is RAPID.
Climate Change: from War to Brain Damage
As climate change accelerates, our warming planet is driving crises that range from war on one side of the globe to brain-damaged babies on the other. A few reports from recent days …
The Zuckerberg Syndrome
Mark Zuckerberg plans to donate most of his wealth (currently valued at about $45 billion) to the cause of “personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and…
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During the GOP debate last night on the Fox Business channel, moderator Maria Bartiromo put this word cloud up on the screen. “We asked Facebook to…
Climate News to Make Your Blood Boil
What a week for climate change. A blizzard of new studies and reports. Let’s start in the Middle East – you know, that place where we…
Flash Flood!
It’s an El Niño year, and so despite the fact that we’re in a long term drought here in the Southwest, it’s been a rainy summer.…
Ocean Circulation May Be Shutting Down
Remember the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow, where fresh water from melting polar ice pours into the North Atlantic, pushing down the warm salt water…
Almost Toast
You might reasonably assume that the red line in this diagram illustrates what happens if humankind takes no action at all on climate change. But no,…
Climate Change: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t & What’s Next
The People’s Climate March in New York City was the biggest march in history, demonstrating that more people than ever are now saying that concern about…
Southwest Lurches from Drought to Flood
What’s behind the massive floods in Phoenix and Las Vegas that caused unprecedented death and destruction this week, along with the deepening megadrought in California, the…
Previous Extinction Was Largely Bad Timing
Their reign lasted roughly 170 million years, and the latest news is that what finally did them in wasn’t simply the notorious asteroid that slammed into…
How the Weather Is Like Fido
The new Cosmos series continues to take down those who prefer to believe that the Earth is flat, that we were all created in six days,…
U.S. Military Warned about Climate Change
Climate change-denying senators scramble to respond Yet another major report this week on climate change. This latest, published on Tuesday by the CNA Corporation Military Advisory…
Climate Crisis? Who Cares When Coal Miners Need Jobs!
You’d think that the very ominous tone of the National Climate Assessment, with its devastating, point-by-point analysis of how climate change is already wreaking havoc in…
The Great Irony in Showtime’s Climate Show
There’s a terrible irony right there in the opening sequence of the first episode of the new Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously. Nelly Montez describes…