Energy Investing: The Indigenous Rights Bubble
In case you haven’t been able to keep up with all the details and implications of ever-spiralling global energy use, the financial risks are increasingly varied.
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Ending the world the human way: Climate change as the anti-news
Here’s the scoop: When it comes to climate change, there is no “story,” not in the normal news sense anyway.
The Great Lakes Go Dry: How One-Fifth Of The World’s Fresh Water Is Dwindling Away
For the past 15 years, islanders have watched Lake Michigan slowly disappear.
Obama’s Hopelessly Wrong on the Environment — Here’s the Reality of What We Face
Based what we know from the most recent climate science, Obama’s "all-of-the-above" energy policy is actually suicidal.
Refugees Without Legs: How Climate Change Leaves No Room For ‘Invasive Species’
The word, “invasive”, whether pinned to an animal, plant, algae, etc., has a deceptively simple ring to it, but it is actually quite ambiguous. First, it is not, and never has been, a scientific term with a set definition.
Climate Change: The Wrong Top Priority for Environmentalists and Conservation Professionals
You read that headline right, so let’s start with a disclaimer: Climate change is one of the biggest threats of the 21st century. Only idiots, ignorami, and certain categories of the insane dismiss the abundant science pointing to climate change, its causes, and its ongoing and future effects.
Over the Climate Cliff
Alex is joined by Cam Walker, Friends of Earth Australia, Dr. David A. Lavers, and author Alan Weisman.
Is adaptation to climate change really feasible?
The climate change denialists have pretty much given up on the idea that there is no climate change or that it is good for us. So, they’re down to arguing that it won’t be that bad and we should just adapt.
Energy Crunch: Will Britain get on board with fracking?
Energy round-up including EU climate targets, UK fracking plans, and peak oil.
Scientists speak out against Canada’s ‘war on science’
Seven of Canada’s most prized scientific libraries are being shut down and some of their contents have already been burned, thrown away or carted off by fossil fuel consultancy firms.
An Anguished Question
Novelist Wallace Stegner once said that all books should try to answer an “anguished question.” I believe the same is true for ideas, movements and emergency efforts. In the case of climate change, one anguished question is this: what can we do right now to help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide from its current level back to 350 ppm?
The warming Arctic, a hyper strategic crisis
Because of climate change, the Arctic is warming and melting…However, basically, this new geophysical situation is triggering what is the mother of all strategic crisis: the long planetary hyper strategic crisis.