“Rapid and deep emissions reductions may not be easy, but 4°C to 6°C will be much worse”
It’s a future about sufficiency more than it is about greed and wants…
climate change
Avoiding defeatism on climate change
So to say "we must adapt to some climate change" is not at all to imply "so we might as well give up the struggle".
Sandy and digital snow days
This post describes Sandy as a catastrophic pulse in relation to the problems of dense urban living, complexity, and digitization.
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Superstorm
Somewhere in the midst of watching the Weather Channel’s reporting on the approach of Superstorm Sandy, I was struck by the lack of meteorologists saying anything about what was behind the highly unusual phenomenon that was unfolding.
Sandy: Storms in the Emergency Room
Storms in the Emergency Room – Hurricane Sandy, coal and nukes – it’s not pretty. From D.C. as storm hits, Earthbeat’s Daphne Wysham on the climate connection. From Australia, Greenpeace’s Georgina Woods on huge coal expansion. Then a Canadian plan to dump nuclear waste right next to Lake Huron and world’s biggest running reactor.
Frankenstorm: Hurricane Sandy an Outgrowth of Global Warming’s Extreme Weather?
Forecasters say Hurricane Sandy is a rare hybrid superstorm created by an Arctic jet stream from the north wrapping itself around a tropical storm from the south. Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at the Weather Underground, warns that such a "Frankenstorm," as it is called, is an outgrowth of the extreme weather changes caused by global warming.
Our Words Are Our Weapons
In ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by “the rectification of names,” a ceremony in which the sloppiness and erosion of meaning that had taken place under the previous dynasty were cleared up and language and its subjects correlated again. It was like a debt jubilee, only for meaning rather than money.
