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BIG NEWS: ‘Global warming stopped 16 years ago’ (If only it were true)
Every few months a member of the press who is either honestly confused about climate science, or whose mission is to deliberately misrepresent it, publishes an article claiming that global warming is a hoax (a ploy by scientists to get fat research stipends), or that global warming is real but insignificant (nothing here to worry [...]
Arctic ice melt linked to extreme weather events to the south [UPDATED]
The above images from NASA illustrate that the Arctic’s oldest and thickest sea ice has “diminished by almost 50 percent between 1980 and 2012,” as air and ocean temperatures have increased. TreeHugger reports on recent polar research, quoting the University of Manitoba’s David Barber, who says his three-year study found that “climate change in the [...]
The new normal… or the prelude to TEOTWAWKI? [UPDATED]
The drought and record-breaking heat affecting vast areas of the planet have gotten the attention of many who previously all but ignored climate change. The media are quoting several scientists who describe these climatological conditions as the “new normal.” We will be fortunate indeed if that is the case, because the alternative is that we [...]
Earth at tipping point. What — Me Worry?
“Scientists uncover evidence of impending tipping point for Earth,” is the alarming headline of the UC Berkeley News Center website. “A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere, a planet-wide [...]
Is it too late to prevent ‘civilization-threatening climate disruption’?
As noted elsewhere on truthalyzer.com, Sir James Lovelock, perhaps best known for his Gaia Theory of Earth as a living system, was one of the first to say, in his books, lectures, and interviews, that Earth’s climate is past the point of no return and destined for runaway “global heating,” as he prefers to call [...]
(Half) Life in the Atomic Age [UPDATED]
Reportedly, North Americans, especially those of us on the West coast, are breathing in or ingesting a few “hot particles” every day from the meltdown at the nuclear power plant about 5,000 miles away in Fukushima, Japan [following the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011]. This is not the feared radioactive cloud of post-apocalyptic-nuclear [...]
Multiple, simultaneous crises [UPDATED]
In Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines, Richard Heinberg addresses “a frightening array of peaks” mankind faces in the new century: oil, natural gas, coal, uranium and other crucial metals and minerals, as well as peak population, climate stability, fresh water, arable land, and grain and wild fish harvests. Heinberg notes the [...]
Too big to jail
“Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail,” asks Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone.”Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars [...]
Does human nature make war inevitable? [UPDATED]
“Throughout prehistoric, written, and recent history, human warfare has been commonplace. Nearly all societies engage in regular or periodic war. In many examples, human warfare has characteristics similar to chimpanzee war: an in-group fights with and kills members of the out-group.” (From overview of MCDB 150, a course at Yale University.) It is not surprising [...]
Garbage Planet [UPDATED]
Garbage. On average, each of us deposits over four pounds of garbage every day in waste baskets around the house. That’s about 30 pounds of garbage per person, per week. If we didn’t take the trash out, it would soon fill up our houses and apartments. If garbage trucks didn’t haul it away, it would [...]
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