Megadrought in U.S. Southwest: A Bad Omen for Forests Globally
Across the West, “megafires” have become the norm.
climate change
‘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.
Primal Fears, Primal Joys
We’re living in a time of growing fear of what I have come to call the “Big Primal.” …Our scientists confirm that we’re not all simply imagining that our weather has gone wild; for them, the warming of the oceans and the rising of the seas are facts, not theories.
To power up or power down? That is the question
Recently I read that our challenge in the twenty-first century is to triple global energy demand “so that the world’s poorest can enjoy modern living standards, while reducing our carbon emissions from energy production to zero”.
Flight of the Butterflies
In many ways dystopias are easier to write than a realist fiction that can look at the awesome forces that are out of kilter on the earth.
Towards a Post-Oil Civilization: Yasunization and other initiatives to leave fossil fuels in the soil – REPORT
Environmental justice organisations and networks (ERA, Acción Ecológica, Oilwatch) put forward the proposal to leave fossil fuels in the ground.
IEA, climate, and energy – June 11
•Four energy policies can keep the 2 °C climate goal alive •Waiting on new climate deal ‘will set world on a path to 5C warming’ •The Burning Question by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark – review
Climate Question: Do We Get to Keep Flying?
An analysis of jet fuel alternatives that could be viable in the next decade.
Deep thought – dystopia and revolt – June 5
•The War on Scarcity •The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future •Without Water, Revolution •Turkish hopes for a new beginning •The Stockholm Uprising and the Myth of Swedish Social Democracy •The Natural Limits Of Confronting Our Limits •Days of Destruction
Climate Correspondents
With political strife and economic woes often taking precedence over environmental issues, what are environmental journalists in the developing world doing to get their messages heard?
Syria Today Is A Preview Of Memorial Day, 2030
The worst direct impacts to humans from our unsustainable use of energy — over the next few decades — will, I think, be Dust-Bowlification and extreme weather and food insecurity: Hell and High Water.
