Facing the Anthropocene: An Update

By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism

It may be helpful to outline some important recent developments in Anthropocene science in the two main fields involved: geology, and Earth System science.

Leading Climate Researchers: We Are in a Climate Emergency, Facing Existential Risks

By David Spratt, Climate Code Red

Last week a new paper in Nature caused a stir and world-wide headlines, and for good reason. “Climate tipping points - too risky to bet against” by Lenton, Rockstrom, Gaffney, Rahmstrof, Richardson, Steffen and Schellnhuber look at the “evidence on the threat of exceeding (climate system) tipping points, and whether we still have any control over them” because this “helps to define that we are in a climate emergency.”

Protagoras and the Anthropocene: Can man still be the measure of all things

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

It is not surprising that humans look to themselves as arbiters of what's important in the life and processes of the biosphere. Humans, like every other species, seek their own survival and well-being first. But our overreliance on humans as the measure of all things is the very posture which has put us on the road to potentially catastrophic changes in climate and other planetary systems, changes that threaten our very survival.

Meltdown Earth: the Shocking Reality of Climate Change Kicks In – but Who is Listening?

By James Dyke, The Conversation

February didn’t break climate change records – it obliterated them.

New Studies Suggest Many Coastal Cities Eventually To Be Abandoned With Antarctic Ice Collapse

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

New studies in Science and Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) find that glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region of the great Antarctic ice sheet have begun the process of irreversible collapse.