climate change
Where’s the tax in BC’s carbon tax?
British Columbia’s carbon tax has been getting some high praise lately. A recent article in the Atlantic called it “the crown jewel of North American climate policy”. Such assessments need…
UN Scientific Panel Releases Report on Climate Change
In this Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 photo, a flock of Geese fly past the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets near Emmett, Kan.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Krugman compares the U.S.’ longtime recognition that concentrated wealth can do massive social harm to the Republicans’ recent efforts to claim that…
Ecopathy: The environmental disease
Besides the many diverse costs resulting from our environmental damage to nature, we are now beginning to suffer a loss of reputation. Under a new category of study called “ecopsychology”,…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dean Starkman writes about the media’s failure to see and report on the culture of corruption and manipulation that led to the…
Climate change is having impact across the globe
Residents walk across the frozen Songhua River in front of smoke stacks at Jiamusi, in China’s northeast Heilongjiang province Sunday Dec. 4, 2005. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) | ASSOCIATED PRESS This…
Saturday At The Movies
There’s so much about animals we don’t understand. Check out this story of Max the wonder dog who saved his mistress’s life with his sense of smell.
Our Acidic Ocean
The last time Earth's oceans were this acidic, a six mile-wide asteroid had just smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula: gizmodo.com/how-global-war…— Extinction Symbol (@extinctsymbol) March 26, 2014 It’s incalculably high what…
UN panel warns about climate change
A Polar Bear walks on the frozen tundra next to Hudson Bay ahead of the freeze-over 12 November 2007 outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada. | PAUL J. RICHARDS via Getty Images…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Yves Smith notes that a short-sighted focus on returns for shareholders generally represents a poor allocation of resources even on the level of…
Saturday At The Movies
Amazing interaction between a wild raven needing help, and a helpful human.
NASA study: Inequality will lead to famine, collapse of civilization
Hungry for change: Tunisian bread riots led to a government overthrow in 2011 Read this March 18 National Post story on a new NASA-funded study that predicts the utter collapse…
Obama teams up with web companies to illustrate the effects of climate change
Observed changes in sea level relative to land elevation in the United States between 1958 and 2008 (Photo: USGCRP 2009). by Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama…
May could be the first time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels peak
The Keeling Curve shows monthly carbon dioxide concentrations at Mauna Loa Observatory (Photo: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory/Scripps Institute of Oceanography). Read this March 18th article from the Huffington Post…
American Association for the Advancement of Science Says It’s Time To “Brake 4 Climate”
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest non-government general science membership organization and the executive publisher of Science, a leading scientific journal. Its mission…
David Suzuki: We can’t geoengineer our way out of climate change
Seawater is sprayed into clouds to make them reflect more sunlight (Illustration: Nasa) Because nature doesn’t always behave the same in a lab, test tube or computer program as it…
Yes, Your Parents’ Standard of Living Was Better
Ugh. We’re so much poorer than our parents! Yes, your parents’ standard of living was better, so what are you going to do about it? When I was growing up…