Climate Change: Lines of Evidence Parts 3 & 4
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New Zealand – Australia’s Climate Change Lifeboat
Australia is somewhat ahead of the global average for climate change temperature rise. The country just passed the 1C mark. There’s obviously plenty more heat on the way in the…
She Looks At a World Reeling from Extreme Weather and Sees a Silver Lining
Record-breaking heat waves and droughts, flooding and the Polar Vortex have pummeled most of the Earth in recent years and, we’re told, this is a glimpse of even more extreme…
Climate Change: Lines of Evidence Parts 1 & 2
The National Research Council has created a series of short videos offering a very clear explication of climate and the irrefutable evidence that it is changing. While you can click…
It’s Not Just Woolly Mammoths Surfacing from Climate Change
The retreat of glaciers has been turning up all sorts of stuff such as the remains of woolly mammoth that have been preserved in ice for thousands of years. Turns…
How to Explain Climate Change to Your Cranky Old Uncle
Relax, the hard work has been done for you. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with Britain’s equally prestigious Royal Society, have reduced the science to a handy…
Perspective
This puts things into perspective. Happy World Wildlife Day! * And for some more perspective, here’s George Carlin on “saving the planet”.
The Big Ice Hole and the Con Climate Change Deniers
In the 1970's a Nimbus satellite first revealed a giant hole in the sea ice around Antarctica, which appeared every winter for three years.Only to disappear and not be seen…
400 peaceful Keystone XL pipeline protesters arrested at White House
by: Obert Madondo Nearly 400 youth were arrested on March 2 outside the White House during the XL Dissent, a non-violent, student-led action to stop TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. The…
What Climate Change?
Don Maroc We probably didn’t notice, during the years George W. Bush and his Flat Earth gang tried to rule the world from the Washington, D.C., beltway, how we slowly…
The Cult of Living Large
2015, we’re told, is the year the developed world (that’s us) and the emerging economies (China, India, etc., etc., etc.) will close ranks to formulate an effective plan of action…
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Elevator Joy Bomb:
Science + Good Policy = Averting Climate Breakdown: Go!
Can you do it? Can you be inspired by the strong possibility that we can move to a post-carbon energy infrastructure, like I wrote about yesterday? Can you not reject…
The Alberta tar sands’ criminal assault on water, Athabasca River
by: Obert Madondo A new study by Environment Canada confirms what First Nations and environmentalists have been telling us all along: the Alberta tar sands are increasingly becoming a threat…
Cullen calls out Harper govt over climate change, dead scallops
NDP House Leader Nathan Cullen challenges the Harper government in question period over its failure to act on climate change and 10 million scallops that died in BC recently from…
Staples Redux: Oil and Honey
Oil is a staple. Honey isn’t. That’s the point. The odd coupling comes from Bill McKibben’s most recent book, which is titled “Oil and Honey.” Oil is crude. Honey is…
How We Keep the Tarsands in the Ground
NOT actually science-fiction. In your science-fiction news today: Imagine a power system that could harness the energy of 2,000 suns and provide fresh water and air conditioning in remote locations.…
If the 1% Has Russell Brand Killed…
If the 1% has Russell Brand killed, we will see it in the corporate media as a drug OD relapse, or a freak accident. Why? He is dangerous because he…