Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics on Feb 1st, 2009
Australia — which for years has been the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas emitter* — is now suffering from a sustained drought and heat wave that is taking lives and reducing agricultural productivity significantly. Temperatures in many parts of the country have been hovering above 100°F for a record number of days, with only [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Climate Change Science, Climate Change Solutions, Old King Coal, Politics, Social Justice, USA on Jan 27th, 2009
A Week of Happy Dances It was just one week ago that Kristina and I were celebrating Barack Obama’s Inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America with little happy dances around the living room. We’re still doing the same thing today. If you care about the environment and global warming, Obama [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Global Warming Myths on Jan 27th, 2009
A sobering new study by American, Swiss, and French researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* is suggesting that climate change occurring now is is irreversible, so we need to act now to cut emissions dramatically, or we risk turning up the global thermostat and not being able to turn it down. [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming Myths, Politics on Jan 19th, 2009
Technology alone can’t save the world from global warming. It’s called the Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate, and it’s an economic paradox. But as soon as you hear it, you’ll know instinctively that it’s real, and it’s a serious problem for the climate change movement. It’s also the reason why we need strong governments and bullet-proof legislation to [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Politics on Jan 19th, 2009
Another inactivist talking point has been annihilated, hopefully for the last time. Global warming skeptics like to claim that most glaciers are advancing, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.* This story in The Guardian shows how frighteningly wrong they are. Most of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2050 — or well before — with [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Politics, USA on Jan 14th, 2009
NASA has issued a climate change update for the year just ended, and 2008 will go in the record books as the coolest year since 2000, but still much, much warmer than any year prior to 1990. As a result, the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred in the last 12 years, and [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Food, High Horse, Social Justice on Jan 12th, 2009
In the coming decades, unchecked climate change will stress crops and livestock alike — especially in the world’s poorest regions — and that is expected to cause serious food shortages for half the world’s population, according to US researchers writing in the peer-reviewed journal Science. But while the world’s poor will suffer the most, Europe [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Science, Politics, Progressive Coalition on Jan 9th, 2009
Reason #3 to support the Liberal-NDP Coalition In the last federal election in October, Dr. Andrew Weaver — a noted climate scientist and author honored by the Nobel Prize Committee — urged Canadians to vote for the environment and remove Stephen Harper from the Prime Minister’s office. He was joined by 120 of Canada’s top [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Science, USA on Jan 4th, 2009
Boreal Disaster The Chicago Tribune has a look at how Canada’s forest are dying because of climate change… Another ticking time bomb. As relentlessly bad as the news about global warming seems to be, with ice at the poles melting faster than scientists had predicted and world temperatures rising higher than expected, there was at [...]
Posted in Astroturfing, Climate Change Science, Politics, USA on Jan 3rd, 2009
One of the best early moves that President-elect Barack Obama has made was to appoint physicist John Holdren as his national science adviser — a move that has been cheered by Joe Romm at the influential Climate Progress, and roundly condemned by the professional inactivists like Bjorn Lomborg and Roger Pielke Jr. who are hell-bent [...]