How This Old Man is Dying and Why You Should Care
Once a prominent world figure, Freeze-Pop™ is fading fast into the warming ocean. — A staple in his community, Freeze-Pop™—who was once the epitome of rock hard strength, and a resource to many who...
View ArticlePunishing Creativity
Our education culture suffers from a desire to standardize and censor. ___ This week, a high school student named Paris Gray of Jonesboro, Georgia was disciplined and made headlines after her...
View ArticleThe Collapse Of Western Civilization: A View From The Future
Jesse Kornbluth shares his review of Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway’s new book, as well as his interview with Ms. Oreskes. ____ “Nature always bats last.” That old warning about our degrading...
View ArticleWhy It’s Ethically Wrong Not to Recognize Man-Made Climate Change
Matthew Rozsa reminds us that man-made global warming is a fact, and we as a species need to grow up and take responsibility. ___ The Paris climate summit is showing the early signs of failure. “2C is...
View ArticleLet’s Call it: 30 Years of Above Average Temperatures Means the Climate Has...
If you’re always above average, it’s probably time to redefine what’s normal. The new normal for Earth’s climate is systematically rising temperatures. — Richard B Rood, University of Michigan If...
View ArticleCreating an Emissions Trading System in Ten Steps
Embed from Getty Images There is little excuse not to consider adopting an ETS as part of moving to an inevitable low carbon future. ___ In order to move to a low carbon future and limit global...
View ArticleCreating an Emissions Trading System in Ten Steps
Embed from Getty Images In order to move to a low carbon future and limit global average temperatures to 2°C, a number of steps are required. — Decarbonising electricity production, switching to...
View ArticleThat’s Why Carbon Is A Tramp: Crash Course Biology #1
— Here begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Water
— Hank answers some questions and responds to some concerns about his video on water. . — This post was previously published on www.youtube.com and is republished here with permission from the author....
View ArticleUltra-Deep Life May Be Ultimate Survivor
— LONDON, 21 December, 2018 – Microbiologists have good news for those who fear that runaway global warming could disrupt human civilisation, trigger a sixth great extinction of animal and plant...
View ArticleThe Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle! – Crash Course Ecology #8
— Hank introduces us to biogeochemical cycles by describing his two favorites: carbon and water. The hydrologic cycle describes how water moves on, above, and below the surface of the Earth, driven by...
View ArticleEnergy Efficiency Cuts Carbon From Buildings
— LONDON, 13 April, 2018 – Massive savings in carbon emissions are possible worldwide if governments adopt the highest energy efficiency standards for lighting and other household appliances such as...
View ArticleFlourishing Forests Pose Carbon Questions
— by Tim Radford LONDON, 15 October, 2018 − The green response to climate change – the hope that better and bigger forests could help absorb more carbon dioxide and limit the impact of global warming –...
View ArticleHuman Ancestors Lived in a Low-Carbon World
— by Tim Radford LONDON, 4 October, 2019 – For the entire 2.5 million years of the Ice Age epoch called the Pleistocene, it was a low-carbon world. Atmospheric carbon dioxide hovered around 230 parts...
View ArticleAerial View of Forest Chemistry Adds to Climate Fallout Models
By Mikayla Mace-Arizona The researchers used Arizona State University’s Global Airborne Observatory, or GAO, to show that combining traditional on-the-ground field measurements of carbon with aerial...
View ArticleRising Carbon Will Mean Shrunken Harvests
— by Tim Radford LONDON, 5 September, 2018 – A greenhouse world could be a more malnourished one, trying to survive on shrunken harvests. Researchers have confirmed that as carbon dioxide ratios in the...
View ArticleCan We Earn a Living on a Living Planet?
By Chuck Collins It has been a tough couple of years in the effort to unite labor, community, and environmental groups, an alliance that has always been strained. The extractive energy sector—coal,...
View ArticleEurope’s Carbon Scheme Goes up in Smoke
— By Paul Brown LONDON, 27 January – Carbon trading, one of the major European Union policies designed to combat climate change, is failing. A combination of successful lobbying by industry bodies,...
View ArticleEurope’s Carbon Market Limps On
— By Paul Brown LONDON – The European Union’s failing carbon market has been thrown a lifeline by the European Parliament’s Environment Committee. It has backed the Commission’s plan to prop up the...
View ArticleTwo Roads Diverged in Southeast Asia’s Forests
By Natasha Vizcarra Bounded on the west by the remote broadleaf and conifer forests of northern Myanmar and on the east by the wooded floodplains of West Papua in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s forests...
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