Energy Crunch: Avoiding a new dash for gas
Nearly half the UK is now open to fracking. The latest onshore oil and gas licensing round opened up most of England and the Midland Valley of Scotland for applications to drill…
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Dark Age America: The Rising Oceans
The vagaries of global climate set in motion by our species’ frankly brainless maltreatment of the only atmosphere we’ve got, the subject of last week’s post here, have another dimension that bears close watching.
Courtney White: Grass, Soil, Hope Interview
What if the solution for reducing our collective carbon footprint were right under our feet?
California Experiencing Most Severe Drought Ever Recorded
One of the worst North American droughts in history could be getting a whole lot worse.
What’s so Funny About Climate Change
Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman uses humor to explain carbon tax, cap and trade and the ‘Five Chinas’ theory.
Giant Craters in the Siberian Permafrost
Russian scientists have determined that a massive crater discovered in a remote part of Siberia was probably caused by thawing permafrost.
People’s Climate March—Largest Climate March in World History—Launched in Times Square
Scheduled for Sept. 21 in New York City, the People’s Climate March will coincide with September’s UN Climate Summit, where world leaders including President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in attendance in answer to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon summons to consult on climate change.
Dark Age America: Climate
One of the most important factors that will shape the history of North America over the next five centuries and is particularly amenable to a systems analysis is climate.
Why Restoring Wetlands Is More Critical Than Ever
With sea levels rising, coastal communities…in the U.S. and Europe are realizing the value of wetlands as important buffers against flooding and tidal surges.
Our watershed moment
We humans need water for life, we love it for leisure, we make art out of it; yet we also waste it, dirty it, privatise it, use it as a weapon and, most dangerously, stir it up brutally in the form of manmade climate change.
A Framework For Assessing Country-Level Resilience
With no meaningful actions on such things as climate change and peak resources in sight, a realistic assessment of country (and regional) level resilience is required.
Natural gas: A green bridge to hell
Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that led to it. Yet this is precisely what we are now trying to do with climate change policy.
