Fostering Ecological Hope
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 ‘national [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
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 to [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
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 is [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
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 in [...]