Professor Jennifer Francis recently presented evidence showing that the loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the Far North are altering the jet stream over North America, Europe, and Russia and these profound shifts increase the likelihood of more extreme weather. The so-called jet stream has increasingly taken a longer, meandering …
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When glacial melting becomes irreversible.
When glacial melting becomes irreversible it’s not good, and it’s happening now. Three teams that have modelled behaviour of Antarctica’s mighty Pine Island Glacier (PIG) tell the journal Nature Climate Change that, even if the region were to experience much colder conditions, its retreat would continue. The glacier is a colossal feature, covering more than …
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Biosphere destruction is being ignored but happening fast and time is running out.
In Dangerous Global Warming Closer Than You Think, Climate Scientists Say, Scientific American outlines two reports encouraging immediate and extensive action, before it’s too late. The message of the reports is that climate volatility is already here, species extinction is close to a critical level, as are levels of toxic concentrates. They are now talking …
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Fossil fuel subsidies: over $ 500,000,000,000 a year.
That’s about $112 for each adult in the world. It’s a lot of money for any industry. It’s a huge commitment of resources for a sunset industry. Subsidies must be eliminated. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) report notes that “these subsidies outweigh the support provided to fast-start climate finance by a ratio of 7:1”. That …
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More climate change numbers are in, and they’re bad.
The World Meteorological Organization reports: The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing an upward and accelerating trend which is driving climate change and will shape the future of our planet for hundreds and thousands of years. Between 1990 and 2012 there was a 32% increase in …
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Biochar: The Original Soil Amendment to Mitigate Climate Change
Below is an article from CSR Wire summarising the use of charcoal as a soil improver. It’s benefits have been known for centuries as it was a principal technique used by aboriginal American peoples. Adding charcoal to soil helps it maintain its vitality and catalyses the decomposition of plant and animal matter and its transformation …
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We need more trees. Many more.
Interpretation of empirical data connecting weather patterns with forests has been met with scepticism and been largely ignored by meteorologists, climate change scientists and the media, but we ought to consider the proposal. Dr Anastassia Makarieva and Professor Victor Gorshkov of the St Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute have proposed that it is not temperature differences …
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Snow in March!
Yes, the world IS melting.
Melting of polar ice sheets has added 11mm to global sea levels over the past two decades, according to the most definitive assessment so far. More than 20 polar research teams combined forces to produce estimates of the state of the ice in Greenland and Antarctica in a paper in Science. The study’s headline conclusion …
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Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)
It’s not often that you hear a conservative, traditional, esteemed financial guru advocating civil disobedience. So it is fair to let you read why they advocate an energetic voice of change. The summary is: Times are far more desperate than we think and we need to change the system to become sustainable with the utmost …
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