A Year in the Life of Earth’s CO2
An eerily beautiful video, created by a NASA super-computer, showing how human-generated carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere in winter and retreats in summer as…
Psychologists Explain Why So Many Republicans Are Climate Science Deniers
If you care about the animals and nature, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma is the climate science denier you love to hate. The senator, in turn,…
Whose Temperature Should You Be Taking?
While passengers arriving from West Africa at Dulles International Airport last week were having their temperatures taken, this woman was sitting on the other side of…
Half the World’s Wildlife Destroyed in the Last 40 Years
In a sane world, it would be headline news. Everything else would immediately come to a screeching halt to make way for a massive, worldwide attempt…
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…
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…
Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet Irreversible
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that…
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…
Hope Springs Eternal
In this week’s climate-change quiz, we ask: Who wrote the following when discussing how to avoid the growing global catastrophe? The glass is either half empty…
Endgame – What We Can Do
Derrick Jensen is one of the few people you’ll come across who are passionate about both the “environment” and all the living creatures. (Climate change activists…
"The Evidence Is Overwhelming"
Scientists tend to err on the side of being ultra-conservative. It’s built into the system. Their work is always being reviewed and picked apart by other…
Climate Change for Dummies
I’ve read enough to know that much of the damage climate change will do is now irreversible, and that we’ve already gone over several tipping points.…
Meet the (Brain-Dead) Press
Various blogs, including this one, have noted that the Sunday morning network news shows have been devoting no more than a few minutes each year to…
What Does Near-Term Extinction Mean?
By now, more people are at least beginning to understand that we have a serious problem with climate change. Scientists used to tell us that we…
It Really Is the Sixth Great Extinction
This movie from Last Hours only takes 10 minutes to watch and is one of the clearest, simplest explanations of what’s now taking place on Planet…
‘The End of Antibiotics – Period.’
For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about “The end of antibiotics? (question mark)” Well, now I would…
Glacier Before and After
This was the Muir Glacier in Alaska in 1882. And here it is side-by-side with a photo from the exact same spot, taken by Bruce F.…