New super-Earth found may be just right to support life
That would be “human” life, of course. So, if this article’s premise is correct, we can just keep on trashing planet Earth (the one we’re on now) because when it has been thoroughly trashed, we can...
View ArticleLet the coal burn! And China and India are doing just that
Amazing the amount of press time/coverage a lousy rock, aka “coal,” gets around the world. And never mind the carbon dioxide emitted whenever a supply of those rocks are burned – for heat, for...
View ArticleGlobal disaster? Climate change not on today’s media agenda
According to the National Climatic Data Center, July 211 to June 2012 was the hottest 12-month stretch on human record. But even as the devastation resulting from humanity’s ongoing alteration of the...
View ArticleThe idiots who don’t believe global warming, or climate change, or any other...
My friend conservation columnist Ted Williams offers this insightful look at the deniers. Whatta crew.
View ArticleQuote of the week
World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the 350 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere since 1750 “will remain there for centuries, causing our...
View ArticleUN report warns of widening climate gap
Sure, today’s a holiday. And that means the bulldozers of “progress” are mostly stilled for the day. But they will be back, leveling more forests, more individual trees and fragmenting migration routes...
View ArticleStand still for the apocalypse
Is columnist Chris Hedges pushing the envelope in this piece? Or is he on the mark? I’d bet that NASA’s James Hansen would agree with Hedges’s points.
View ArticleAn area of Arctic ice bigger than the U.S. melted this year
The evidence continues to mount, and still the deniers in Congress won’t tackle the issue.
View ArticlePlants will be hard put to handle greenhouse gases, scientists say
Another telling bit of evidence is outlined in this newspaper narrative:...
View ArticleMarine life on a warming planet
Humans’ continued pumping into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide – sometimes by the stupidest of chores like driving to the mailbox rather than walking there – is damaging the future of marine life. You...
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