By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
Can a “never-seen-before ” weather event that happens every few years really be called “never-seen-before”? Does a “1 in a 1,000 year” event that happens twice in two years become a warning of something different happening?
By Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik, New Internationalist
The fight to tackle climate change has two core branches: mitigation (curbing excessive greenhouse gas emissions) and adaptation (addressing the effects of climate change that are already unfolding). But although both areas are needed, the public tends to focus on the former in discussions on climate change.
By Albert Bates, The Great Change
We had two scientific papers shoved under our door, and both of are serious sources of hope for a world undergoing climate shock. They represent the two sides of the solution ledger, adaptation and mitigation.
By Richard Schiffman, Yale Environment 360
For residents of the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and Canada, global warming is not an abstract concept.
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t stopped soon, unprecedented and deadly heat waves will become the new normal in most of the world.
By Britt Basel, Cornellsailing.com
After two weeks of workshops and meetings, this group had come up with their Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the village.
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Scientists believe Chinese civilisation could have been founded by climate refugees after the collapse of an Inner Mongolian culture over 4,000 years ago.
By Robert M. Christie, The Hopeful Realist
Who now lives fully integrated with a clan, tribe, or other group ‘emplaced’ for many generations in a particular location and fully integrated into the ecology of that place?
By Richard Schiffman, YES! magazine
More than 75 percent of the fruit and vegetable varieties that humans once consumed have already gone the way of the wooly mammoth...
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
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.