Arctic Methane Emergency
Heightening the fear of rapid and severe climate change, continuous, powerful and impressive methane plumes, more than 1,000 metres in diameter, have been found beneath the Arctic seabed off the East Siberian Arctic Shelf of northern Russia.
COP17: Climate Change Terrorism is “Politically Pragmatic”
Right, and “Warning: lethally toxic high voltage radioactive explosive” is just a health tip.
Stern’s statement is trivially true; any information is a “guidepost.” This particular guidepost informs us that 2oC is almost certainly catastrophic and knowingly going above it is insane. The cavalier manner with which he tosses the statement out, as though we were talking about highway signs advising motorists about rest stops, is criminally irresponsible.
Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: Till We Have Faces
What does it mean to be a young person who is just starting life as the older generations conspire to bring it all crashing down? Being condemned to a Hobbesian nightmare so that we can have drive through Latte Shoppes, Cancun vacations and nose hair trimmers for a few more years?
Lying about the science is a “Prescription for Disaster”
Bear in mind they are making that claim about a supposedly “safe” 2oC rise in temperature, a window we have almost certainly already missed thanks to years of the same waffling and foot dragging. As these posts document, we now know that 2oC is NOT safe and that further delay is absolutely suicidal.
Stephen Schneider: Science and Distortion
“A year in the making, this video pays tribute to a critical scientific and academic figure in postmodern history: the late Climatologist and Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider (1945-2010) This video was screened before a live audience by Climate One of the Commonwealth Club of California in downtown San Francisco on Dec 6, 2011 as the [...]
Brutal numbers and tenuous hope, a MUST read
Global inequity means that a disproportionate share of the climate change problem is caused by very few people. For the moment we don’t really need to worry about changing 7 billion people, the real problem is the global 1%. That includes most of us in the developed world;
