Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science on Jun 21st, 2009
Leading experts have made good on a promise to update the climate change science in advance of Copenhagen, and they’re telling politicians that humanity is risking “abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts” from the accelerating pace of global warming. Rising global surface and ocean temperatures, surging sea levels, extreme weather events, and the retreat of Arctic [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics, USA on Jun 16th, 2009
President Obama’s top science advisors have created a comprehensive climate change report which details the expected impact of global warming on the US, and urgently recommends decisive action. The report, by the Global Climate Research Program, is being unveiled by Dr. John Holdren, who heads the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and NOAA’s Dr. [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science on May 20th, 2009
The newest and most comprehensive climate-change modeling study shows that without “rapid and massive action,” global warming will be about twice as severe as previously estimated — and it could be even worse than that. The MIT Integrated Global Systems Model now predicts that humanity is on a path that will see more than 5.2°C [...]
Posted in Astroturfing, Climate Change Science, Global Warming Myths, Social Justice on May 18th, 2009
Before starting One Blue Marble, I spent considerable time visiting political web sites to better understand why conservatives think that global warming is a huge hoax perpetrated by scientists (read: socialists) who are hellbent on destroying our cherished way of life. But I came away empty. There was nothing there, no insight to be gleaned. [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Climate Change Solutions, Old King Coal on May 3rd, 2009
Humanity has burned half the fossil fuels required to force a 2°C rise in average global temperatures, and at the current rate, we’ll have 40 years to become a 100 percent renewable-energy society. That’s the message in a new study published in Nature last week which tries to simplify the climate debate by suggesting that [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science on Apr 28th, 2009
An update to this earlier OBM story… Here’s Reuters’s take: New York-Sized Ice Shelf Collapses. Time to redraw the map of Antarctica.
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, USA on Apr 23rd, 2009
Anthropogenic climate change and a naturally occurring drought are imperiling one of the western world’s most vital water sources, the Colorado River, according to a new scientific study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In fact, the study supports another released earlier this week — to be published in the Journal [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Media, Social Justice on Apr 22nd, 2009
Imagine our world without literature. Whenever I can cobble moments together, I write. It’s my first, best thing. I have a middle reader under development that will be a pretty good book once I commit the final chapter to paper. It’s what I do with every stolen minute as we struggle through bankruptcy. I write [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Global Warming Myths on Apr 10th, 2009
Recent dramatic events in the Arctic and Antarctica are supporting scientists who suggest that the pace of climate change is accelerating. The Arctic ice cap is thinner than ever, with ice older than two years comprising less than 10 percent of the ice cover in measurements from the end of February. The amount of thick [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency, Politics, USA on Apr 1st, 2009
On global warming and energy independence, President Obama’s team continues to make exceptional moves. This week, Rep Henry Waxman and Rep Edward Markey released a draft of a comprehensive energy bill that hits as many high notes as a Pavarotti opera. Joe Romm has an excellent analysis. Here’s the nitty gritty: The early version of [...]