Welcome to Pre-Revolutionary America
Sooner or later a critical mass of the American public are going to understand this reality – and, when they do…
The Mound of Sound
44-Thousand Years of Warming in Just Two Centuries
We’re learning all sorts of things from the disappearing Arctic ice. Scientists have figured out that it’s warmer in the Arctic today than it has been for 44-thousand years. How…
Un, Bill, What About Your Own?
Bill Gates says there’ll be no poor countries by 2035. Really, Bill? What about the United States of America? Then again, isn’t this the same guy who claimed that 64K…
E.U. Confirms 40% Emissions Cuts by 2030. Canada Heads In Opposite Direction.
Just when observers thought they were going wobbly, the European Union overcame British opposition to implement a deal that commits the member states to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40%…
85 Richest People on Earth = Bottom Half of Mankind
Take mankind, all 7+-billion of us. Then take the collective wealth of the bottom 3.5 billion. Compare that to the net worth of the wealthiest 85-individuals on the planet. Bingo,…
First They Came For DFO’s Libraries, Now They’re Shutting Down Health Canada’s.
The main Health Canada research library is being shut down, sending scientists scrambling.Recently retired Health Canada pathologist, Rudi Mueller, put it this way, “I look at it as an insidious…
California Balancing on a Knife Edge
California’s Monterey Basin oil field is believed to hold reserves of more than 13-billion barrels. That, for California, is the good news. After that, the news is all bad. The…
Canadian Support for Keystone XL Pipeline Wavers
52% of Canadians still register support for the Keystone XL pipeline but that’s down 16-points from the 68% approval we gave it in April. Opposition to the pipeline during that…
Sometimes the Low Numbers Matter Too
2013 was the hottest year in Australia’s recorded history. We know that the country is setting new records this year. Sometimes, though, there’s as much to be learned by looking…
You’ll Pay For Climate Change One Way or The Other.
One thing climate change will probably bring you is higher insurance premiums. Last year Canadian insurers forked over $3.2-billion in payouts, a record. For the first time, flooding-related claims exceeded…
China Says Arctic Up For Grabs
When it comes to the South China Sea, as far as Beijing is concerned, it’s China’s. Ask Japan or Vietnam or the Philipinnes. When it comes to the Arctic Ocean,…
Is It Really This Simple?
Why does government keep steering us away from green energy development? Put another way, why does government keep us slavishly tied to fossil fuel energy? For some time I’ve put…
Making Sense of What’s Going on in California
These two satellite photographs from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration present the problem very clearly. Here’s what you need to remember. Last winter’s snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas, shown…
So Much For the Arab Spring. Egyptians Tossed Back Into The Pressure Cooker of Unrest.
Consider it a return to the bad-old days. Egypt’s military and financial elites have retaken control of the country. The return to power of the political and economic class aligned…
This You Have to See. Sunrise Over Tiananmen.
Here it is: If you want to enjoy sunrise in Tiananmen Square the Chinese government is there to help. On this massive screen they’re televising what you can’t see for…
Gwynne Dyer Says – Geo-Engineering Will Kill Millions
It sounded like a plan. When runaway global warming got bad enough we’d just hurl huge amounts of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere and cool the planet right back down.…
Your Daily Apocalypto
This actually came out yesterday but I had maxed out my quota for this stuff so I put it off to today. From Deutsche Welle news service comes news of…
A Cautionary Tale of Black Gold Fever
A week ago it was announced that Norway’s North Sea oil fund had amassed enough that every Norse had become (symbolically) a millionaire. That’s a million Krone or about $118,000…
You May Think It’s Been a Cold Year, But Nah! 2013 Fourth Warmest.
North America’s deep freeze experience with the dreaded Polar Vortex got a lot of pinheads like Donald Trump and other rightwingers squawking about how global warming was over, a myth.…
This Is a New One for Me
From the West Seattle Herald. An ‘air stagnation alert’ has been issued by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. The National Weather Service has issued an air stagnation…