Broke, crowded & hot: Top 3 reasons to flee big cities
It’s a staple of summer disaster flicks: the scene of a panicked populace trying to get the hell out of Dodge.
climate change
Stop tailoring global warming scenarios to make them “politically palatable” says leading climate scientist
The reality about the greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming is obscured in UK government scenarios, according to Prof. Kevin Anderson.
Alaska’s Coal: Flashpoint for Coming Climate Battles
If there is any place on planet Earth where we should dig in our heels against expanded coal mining, it is surely Alaska. It’s not happening yet, but there are plenty of people working to make it so.
Malevolent and Malignant Threats
Malevolent threats to national security are the product of human choice, such as terrorists choosing to attack our electricity grid or oil production facilities in the Middle East.Malignant threats are associated with the collapse of a complex system
An interview with Lord Adair Turner
I think it’s incredibly important that those of us who believe very strongly that climate change is occurring are open to looking at the data and seeing what it tells us.
Scientists Predicted A Decade Ago Arctic Ice Loss Would Worsen Western Droughts. Is That Happening Already?
Scientists predicted a decade ago that Arctic ice loss would bring on worse western droughts.
The one thing you need to know about the president’s plan to address climate change
The one thing you need to know about President Obama’s plan to address climate change is that the most it will accomplish is slowing very slightly the pace at which the world is currently hurtling toward catastrophic climate change.
Peak oil notes – June 27
A mid-week update. There has been little movement in the price of oil so far this week with New York futures hovering around $95 a barrel and London around $101.
Calgary’s Manhattan Moment
Alberta, always a geography of maximum weather, is now climate change central in Canada due to exponential growth in human communities and all in the path of increasing floods, droughts, fires…
Megadrought in U.S. Southwest: A Bad Omen for Forests Globally
Across the West, “megafires” have become the norm.
‘Invest, Divest’: Obama Goes Full Climate Hawk In Speech Unveiling Plan To Cut Carbon Pollution
Obama delivered a real stemwinder on the moral urgency of cutting carbon pollution (video, transcript below). So of course Politico reports, “Cable news skips Obama’s climate speech.”
The answer to climate change
While climate change is certainly a fact of the physical world, at its core it’s a social problem, born of our cultural emphasis on consumerism and growth.
