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.
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.
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 …
Election 2016 and the End of a World Age
Thomas Berry writes about the real choices we face this year and the Great Work upon which we should be embarking.
Planet Fireball and the Paris Climate Talks
“By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle,” said George Monbiot, climate writer for The Guardian. “By comparison to what it should have…
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…
Anything Missing from This Word Cloud?
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…
Why Our Brains Can’t Understand Climate Change
In his new book Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, George Marshall tells the story of what happened…
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…
When Paradise Turns Deadly
The gentle creek that flows down Water Canyon turned deadly this week as it exploded into a flash flood killing 15 people, most of them children.…
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.…
Is the Stock Market a Global Ponzi Scheme?
Well, everything seems to be back to normal on Wall Street after a rocky start to the week. So what happened? Are we OK? We’re certainly…
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…
Mass Extinction and the Confederate Flag
I’m as horrified as anyone else at the terrorist attack that left nine people dead at a historic South Carolina church. And I’m disgusted by the…
Pope Francis and Mother Earth
Those who say that the Pope shouldn’t get involved in the issue of what’s happening to Planet Earth and all its inhabitants are either very stupid…
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,…
The Sinkhole Swallowing Southern Utah
The road to a planned development that’s been scrapped because the water table is drying up and creating sinkholes. Here in the beautiful red rock country…
California’s Dark Drought Secret
As usual when it comes to the topic of drought, there’s a giant elephant in the room that almost no one wants to talk about. In…