climate change
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…
Another Informed Star Reader
Christine Penner Polle of Red Lake offers some observations that I suspect few but the most ardent ideologues would dispute: Re: Ottawa plans cuts to climate programs, March 12 Have…
Stephen Harper, the Melting Planet, and the Collapse of the Capitalist System
He has tried to deny the reality of climate change as long as any crazed person could.Even as he torched the planet, and turned Canada into a hellish place.But the…
Saturday At The Movies
It’s astonishing how little we know about communicating with other life forms. Here’s an example of a dolphin in trouble “asking” some divers for help:
New column day
Here, on how Brad Wall is again joining Stephen Harper in putting oil lobbying over the public interest – making excuses for doing absolutely nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
Stop Listening to the Big Oil Spin!
Do the math. Please. For a great long time, I’ve been talking about how we must dump the oil, gas, fracking, tankers, pipelines, coal…all the carbon-based energy systems because of…
The Window Of Opportunity Is Growing Increasingly Short
So says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if we are to take action to limit the global average temperature increase to two degrees Celsius: Six…
Saturday At The Movies
A Norwegian children’s charity left a thinly-dressed 11-year-old boy shivering at a bus stop in the winter cold to test how many people would spontaneously help him. * The advert…
Climate Change: Lines Of Evidence Part 7
If you missed the previous parts, you can click here to view them: Part 7: Natural Cycles Recommend this Post
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Hall notes that Brad Butt’s admitted fabrications can only hurt the Cons’ already-lacking credibility when it comes to forcing through their…
Climate Change: Lines of Evidence Parts 5 & 6
If you missed the previous segments, you can click here to see them. Part 5: How Much Warming? Part 6: Solar Influence Recommend this Post