Time to Take Our Foot Off the Pedal and Reduce CO2 Emissions to 350 ppm
The World Clock created by Peter Russell, British author and futurist is a stunning look at what’s happening literally minute by minute on our earth. One look at this clock is all it takes, and it’s worth a million words.
Will Climate Refugees Be Allowed Safe Haven on James Lovelock’s “Lifeboats?”
Can we create for ourselves in enough time societies governed by a new set of “rules,” a new way of organizing ourselves, a new way of living with the earth and with one another? Can we create a new way that we live as individuals, day-to-day, that builds upon the life examples and teachings of history’s great spiritual leaders, or the life examples of the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, who have come before us who gave their lives struggling and sacrificing for a better world for their descendants?
There are many of us all around the world who believe, unlike Lovelock, that we have it in us not just to try but to have a chance of succeeding. But it’s a race against time.
Global Humanitarian Forum Report on Climate Change Effects
A controversial study by the Global Humanitarian Forum claims that global warming already is causing 300,000 deaths and $125 billion in economic losses annually.
Climate Change and Black Carbon Causing ‘Super-rapid’ Melt of Himalayan Glaciers
The Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountain ranges are the are the world’s greatest repositories of snow and ice outside of the polar regions, and yet they may melt away in just 20 to 30 years, leaving more than a billion people desperately short of water
The Moral Choice between Mitigation or Adaptation to Dangerous Climate Change
The world won’t adapt and can’t adapt to dangerous climate change: the only adaptive response to a global shortage of food is starvation. Of the two strategies it is mitigation, not adaptation, which turns out to be the most feasible option, even if this stretches the concept of feasibility to the limits. As Dieter Helm points out, the action required today is unlikely but “not impossible. It is a matter ultimately of human well being and ethics.”
Worst case climate change scenario trajectories are being realized
Recent observations confirm that, given high rates of observed emissions, the worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realised. For many key parameters, the climate system is already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which our society and economy have developed and thrived. These parameters include global mean surface temperature, sea-level rise, ocean and ice sheet dynamics, ocean acidification, and extreme climatic events. There is a significant risk that many of the trends will accelerate, leading to an increasing risk of abrupt or irreversible climatic shifts.
A Tragic Story of Climate Woes Unfolding in Bangladesh
Threatened with encroaching seas, dwindling water supplies and fiercer storms, Bangladesh is already suffering the ill effects of rising global greenhouse gas emissions. Mason Inman reports on how the region is coping with climate change.
Population Control: A Diversion from the Real issues
Population-based arguments wrongly treat population levels as the cause, rather than an effect, of an unsustainable economic system
