Explaining the Anthropocene
“We don’t know how long we have before climate change goes from dangerous to extremely dangerous, but we know that continuing with business as usual makes such a shift increasingly likely.”
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Film review: ‘This Changes Everything’
Although the title is ‘This Changes Everything’, you are left with the sense that very little is actually changing for the better at all.
What Does the Paris Agreement Mean for the Oceans
The world’s oceans absorb about a quarter of the CO2 and more than 90% of the heat that accumulates in the atmosphere because of human activity, modulating the climate changes we see at the surface. But they do so at huge cost.
Millions of Americans Now Claim Donald Trump Does Not Exist
Perhaps partly in response to Trump’s and Cramer’s climate views, surveys now suggest that millions of Americans doubt Donald Trump’s existence.
We are all Albertans now
Vilifying Alberta’s tar sands operations because of the climate-change related wildfires now scorching the province is a misreading of how climate change proceeds and a facile strategy for shifting blame away from all of us who continue to create demand for the oil the tar sands produce.
Breaking Free: 12 Days of Protest Open a Summer of Environmental Discontent
On May 3 some of the biggest ever global actions against climate change began, and are running for 12 consecutive days through Sunday, May 15.
How Rising CO2 Levels May Contribute to Die-Off of Bees
As they investigate the factors behind the decline of bee populations, scientists are now eyeing a new culprit — soaring levels of carbon dioxide, which alter plant physiology and significantly reduce protein in important sources of pollen.
How Climate Change and Failed Agricultural Policies have Contributed to Conflict in Syria
The conflict in Syria and the rise of Isis have displaced half a nation of people and generated the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today.
Leading the Public into Emergency Mode: A New Strategy for the Climate Movement: Excerpt
Emergency mode is the mode of human psychological functioning that occurs when individuals or groups respond optimally to existential or moral emergencies.
Climate Democracy for Rural Communities
There is a common misconception that you can’t talk about climate change in rural communities because the issue is considered too polarizing.
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas.
The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning
The movement to stop fossil fuel development just keeps winning.
