Daniel R. Cobb: Trump and the Criminality of Climate Change
If someone threw buckets of gasoline on the front and back doors and the windows of a home and lit it on fire in the early morning, those sleeping inside … Continue reading
Video: Natural Playground
Here’s the upside to global warming. . Directed and Performed by Ben Leclair Co-produced by Kevin Calvez Filmed by Blackbird productions & Ian Curry . Ben LeClair . . Email … Continue reading
Deirdre Fulton: The Anthropocene Is Here
Humanity has pushed Earth Into a new epoch which began in the 1950s when human activity set global systems on a different trajectory. The Anthropocene Epoch has begun, according to a … Continue reading
Andrea Germanos: As planet warms, “extreme” weather increases
Louisiana continues to battle “unprecedented” flooding, as experts warn that the historic rainfall that sparked the rising waters is the kind of extreme weather event to expect on a warming … Continue reading
George Monbiot: The Purse is Mightier than the Pen
The climate crisis is here now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know. What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns … Continue reading
Tim Radford: Expect higher ozone and extreme weather, scientists say
According to a new report in Nature, scientists are warning that the current pleasures of warmer weather will pall for US citizens as climate change brings extreme temperature rises and … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: Turning Point in Climate Fight as AGs Unite to Target Exxon Crimes
In a move many are hailing as a “turning point” in the climate fight, 20 state Attorneys General on Tuesday launched an unprecedented, multi-state effort to investigate and prosecute the … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: NASA Drops Major Bomb in ‘March Toward Ever-Warmer Planet’
NASA this weekend released new data which shows that February 2016 was not only the hottest in recorded history, but it soared past all previous records, prompting scientists to describe … Continue reading
Michael T. Klare: Welcome to a New Planet
Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science — and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on … Continue reading
Dan Cobb: Documents prove Big Oil, Big Coal have known and lied about global warming for decades
Hundreds of pages of recovered documents show that even with detailed knowledge of the link between carbon emissions and climate change, the fossil fuels industry has lied for decades and … Continue reading
Dan Cobb: Are you ready to choose the last generation?
We love our kids, of course. And every grandparent can’t help but fall in love with their grandkids. Certainly most of us will love our great grandkids, if we live … Continue reading
Jon Queally: World’s Oceans Could Rise Higher, Sooner, Faster Than Most Thought Possible
If a new scientific paper is proven accurate, the international target of limiting global temperatures to a 2°C rise this century will not be nearly enough to prevent catastrophic melting … Continue reading
Video: “Planetary Bands, Warming World,” a composition for string quartet demonstrating global climate change
Daniel Crawford, an undergrad at the University of Minnesota, has produced in collaboration with geography professor Scott St. George, a composition for string quartet using a method called “data sonification,” … Continue reading
Per Espen Stoknes: The Great Grief — How To Cope with Losing Our World
Climate scientists overwhelmingly say that we will face unprecedented warming in the coming decades. Those same scientists, just like you or I, struggle with the emotions that are evoked by … Continue reading
