10 year window to address severe climate change
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of our leading experts on climate change, told an audience yesterday that we have 10 years to make the changes necessary to ward off disaster.
While many media pundits and politicians address our fossil fuel dependency from a […]
Study links rising hurricane threat to human-induced global warming
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yet another study has linked the rising threat of hurricanes — more severe storms because of the warming of ocean waters — to human causes, specifically the rise of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Here are a couple of links referencing the study.
And here’s another story related […]
It is not the sun
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Some global heating nayayers try to tell us that the warming period we are in could also be the result of the natural cycles of the sun. Nope, says the new research. The brightness of the sun has been quite stable over the recent period of warming, whereas it […]
Eating ourselves to death
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Maybe this is how we will eliminate hundreds of millions of us over this generation — we’ll simply eat ourselves to death. You already know, I’m sure, about the epidemic of diabetes that is sweeping this country as we gorge on fast food and our young people drown themselves […]
Watching what we eat
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I don’t have much time to blog today, but I wanted to pass along some thoughts about how we eat, our patterns of over-consumption of food on the high-end of overall resource usage — gobbling up the food chain, basically. This includes things like beef and fish.
Fish. We are quickly heading […]
Just remember the day
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I’m not posting today. Just remembering — being in DC five years ago — going to Manhattan 10 days later and getting down just three blocks from Gound Zero. The smell, the burning in my throat and lungs, the grey-pink dust that coated everything after days of rain — […]
Males bearing eggs - will bottled water save us? NO!
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
No, I’m not making this up. Here’s the stuff of a scary Hollywood movie. Fish have been found in the Potomac River around Washington DC and in its tributaries that have combined male and female traits — male fish bearing eggs. This one was scary enough to warrant front […]
Uh oh, more trouble on the warming front
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Which is more depressing — the story I cite here, or how it was buried in the media?
The journal Nature has just released a new report indicating that methane gas is bubbling out of the melting permafrost faster than anyone knew previously.
Where did the story appear? Well, one was […]
The controversial James Lovelock
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Dr. James Lovelock, one of the original ‘articulaters’ of the Gaia theory (the theory that earth is a living self-regulating organism carefully balanced to make life possible), has become very controversial in recent years. His very bleak predictions for our near-future as a result of global warming (the new hot […]
Adaptation will not do
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I don’t usually do this, but this seems important. I have copied a very short article below from Reuters Environmental news service, Planet Ark. I found it as a link on Climate Ark, referenced in my previous post.
I’m glad some folks with an international audience are saying this. Our politicians are trying […]
