Ethical Oil: A truth that’s told with bad intent
Of the many contradictions and hypocrisies in the Ethical Oil Campaign, one of the most ironic is the fact that while the abuses of human rights and the environment cited by the EOC are permitted by the countries in question, many of the abuses are actually committed by the very oil companies EOC is working on behalf of.
The Immense Alberta Oil Sands Project: A Definitive Examination
Among other things, Mech’s report estimates that the other production-related emissions could be effectively double the previously believed figure for the Tar Sands impact.
Cohabit Eaarth: We are the 99.999%
Staggering as it may be to imagine that so much wealth is concentrated in the hands of a mere 1% of the population, remember that it refers to 1% of the human population in the United States and/or the Industrialized world. When we recognize that those deserving a fair share must include the entire human population, and that this “wealth” comes at the expense of the natural world on which we all depend, then the inequity and absurdity (insanity?) becomes all the more glaring.
The Cure for Climate Change Despair
New article by North Island Columnist Ray Grigg.The cure for the “well-informed futility syndrome” is action. But not just any action.
Do, and despair not
Receiving worsening news about climate change, to some extent we choose to be dis-empowered. As Ray Grigg discusses in his post “Well-Informed Futility Syndrome”, for those predisposed to inaction news of this sort is a harbinger of doom. For those inclined to act it is a call to arms. An oversimplification, but as Grigg explains, we do have some choices about which we want to be.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Geoengineering, Hubris and Reality
Geoengineering Catch 22, what if the problem is that we don’t even know what the problem is? As such the problem is more of human ignorance and incapacity to make rational choices rather than a technological one per se. If that is the case then clearly “the solution” is education. Obviously we need to get the public to realize that geoengineering is no solution and to understand just how great the risks are, however.
Missing Links: Meltdowns from the Arctic to Wall Street
From climate change to climate justice By Mike Kaulbars October 16, 2011 One of the last posts prior to the unplanned pause here at West Coast Climate Equity was “Runaway Permafrost Melt Imminent, Will Speed Dangerous Climate Change” It would be so wonderful to be able to revive this blog with the news that the [...]
4 Degrees Hotter: Will This Be Our Future Climate?
It is clear that our collective survival depends on the most radical mitigation effort we can imagine. Climate change is already dangerous, it is no longer a future-tense proposition. The hour is late. James Hansen, in a new paper, says that “…goals of limiting human-made warming to 2C and CO2 to 450 ppm are prescriptions for disaster.” At just 0.8C warming so far, he says we have little or no “cushion” left to avoid dangerous climate change.
Runaway Permafrost Melt Imminent, Will Speed Dangerous Climate Change
Thawing permafrost that took tens of thousands of years to form will melt in less than 200, with feedback that will turn the Arctic from carbon sink to source in the 2020s, and release 100 billion tons of carbon by 2100
