November 16, 2008
Abdicating the "A" Word, Frantically Fighting for the Familiar
Abdicating the "A" Word, Frantically Fighting for the Familiar By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Negative experiences can lead to joy and understanding. Life is untidy. When we reject this messiness - and in so doing reject life - we risk perceiving the world through the lens...
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June 19, 2008
Disaster Capitalism on a Grand Scale
Disaster Capitalism on a Grand Scale As the cost of food and fuel spirals out of control, and the mortgage and credit crises all strike at a global level, one has to ask if this is a "perfect storm" or a manufactured opportunity - or both....
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June 14, 2008
World rice shortage
World rice shortage By Marina Johnson "They're taking no chances with this year's harvest on the farms in Supamburri. Alongside the heavy machinery, there's a new feature: shotguns. The message is clear: Hand off my rice." ITV News Correspondent, Inigo Gilmore ("Rising Food...
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June 2, 2008
Location, Location, Re-location
Location, Location, Re-location By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power For approximately ten days last month I traveled across the United States from my former home in New Mexico to my new home in Vermont. My journey has been the culmination of...
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May 23, 2008
Rapid Unveiling and the Demise of Adolescent America
Rapid Unveiling and the Demise of Adolescent America By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Well here it is folks-the great unraveling so many of us have been forecasting during the past five years as we've read the tea leaves and researched the unprecedented convergence of myriad...
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May 18, 2008
Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late?
Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late? I would like to recommend to you an excellent interview Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late? posted at Thomas Paine's Corner. This interview of Steven Best by Jason Miller is an excellent discussion...
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May 9, 2008
12 Stepping Our Way to Armageddnon
12 Stepping Our Way to Armageddnon By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded. H.G. Wells, 1946 I recently received an email from a reader, frustrated with my insistence on holding...
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April 23, 2008
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food Food riots turn deadly in Haiti. Food riots fear after rice price hits a high. And so it starts. Globally there has been roughly a 25% increase in food prices. In some areas - such as Haiti - food...
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December 6, 2007
Automotive Alternative
Automotive Alternative Here is a new development that is worthy of note. The video discusses a four cylinder engine that runs on air. http://youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4...
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November 19, 2007
Compare the Democratic Candidates on Global Warming
Compare the Democratic Candidates on Global Warming Living on Earth and Grist and Grist sponsored a Democratic candidate forum in Los Angeles on Global Warming and America's Energy Future. Only Kucinich, Edwards, and Clinton bothered to show up - which dramatically narrows the candidate field for me....
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November 18, 2007
Oil and Climate
Oil and Climate By Marilyse Crise de l'énergie et changements climatiques, La fortune et la famine, La Fontaine, 18 novembre 2007 Energy crisis and climate change, wealth and famine, La Fontaine, November 18th, 2007...
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September 9, 2007
"Shocking" Changes in Greenland.
"Shocking" Changes in Greenland. on September 7th, I wrote about the arctic melt. More specifically, the concern is regarding the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. What scientists now believe is that condition of the Greenland ice sheet has been pivotal in dramatic climatic...
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September 7, 2007
Arctic going, going
Arctic going, going The news from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is that we just lost another 50 years in the global warming catastrophe. The melt is accelerating beyond any projections, and the current amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will...
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August 30, 2007
Greensumption
Greensumption The International Forum on Globalization has released a short video on the false solution of going "green" while maintaining or increasing consumption. It does an excellent job of addressing a number of myths. At YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5SSIfmeKU...
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July 11, 2007
What to Do? Taking Action In The Face Of Collapse
What to Do? Taking Action In The Face Of Collapse By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Every time I write an article on collapse such as my most recent one "Happy Independence Day; You Have No Government", I am bombarded with emails asking me "what should I do?"...
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July 7, 2007
Live Earth Access
Live Earth Access If you don't have access to the Sundance Channel and the Live Earth Concerts, you can watch it live at liveearth.msn.com. The site also has access to the videos shown during the concert. There are also links to a number...
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May 29, 2007
Annals of Stupidity: The Demise of Alexander Cockburn
Annals of Stupidity: The Demise of Alexander Cockburn By Gerald Rellick Cross-posted at Thomas Paine's Corner, CJO's Avenger and Uncommon Thought Journal There is no shortage of political pundits now wading into the discussion of global warming, despite the scientific complexity of the field. One of the...
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May 21, 2007
New Life - On Its Way Out
New Life - On Its Way Out (Image courtesy of James Dragesic of the Australian Gvt. Antarctic Division) It was reported that scientists have found more than 700 new species of sea life in the Antarctic. Hailed as a "treasure trove," the species were found by...
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May 6, 2007
Arctic Melt Underestimated
Arctic Melt Underestimated According to a new study released by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the climate change models have significantly underestimated the amount of arctic melting that occurred from 1953 - 2006. The estimates had been based on a melt...
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April 13, 2007
Conspiracy: If you are not in one, you need to start one
Conspiracy: If you are not in one, you need to start one BY: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This past weekend I received a call from two friends who with their three children are facing foreclosure on their home. For the past three years I have been warning them about...
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April 4, 2007
Dead Seas Still have Tides
Dead Seas Still have Tides Last week I took a break and went with family over to the Oregon coast. It was an almost perfect day for the end of March - low 60s with sun and haze and almost no wind. The tide was...
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March 15, 2007
Overshoot Global Warming Into An Ice Age?
Overshoot Global Warming Into An Ice Age? In 2004 I wrote an article Environmental collapse - sooner not later. In that article, I discussed the Pentagon's scenario (as discussed by David Stipp) that we could find ourselves in the middle of a rapid onset ice age. I...
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March 8, 2007
We Need To Get Real About the Planet
We Need To Get Real About the Planet Every day there is more bad news about climate change and global warming gases. It seems that the more we hear about it the more we pollute. U.S. emissions are projected to increase, and China is passing the U.S. as...
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January 6, 2007
70 degrees in New York today…!
70 degrees in New York today…! BY: PHILIP HENSHAW Posted to the AIA Committee on the Environment Forum 1/6/07 It violates normality… but isn’t the more remarkable thing our relative national silence about the whole torrent of authentic new evidence of rapid change in the climate...
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December 17, 2006
Why Isn't Global Warming News?
Why Isn't Global Warming News? Oregon and Washington just got creamed by the second damaging storm in a month. Why isn't global warming news? In watching the hours of coverage for both storms - the one that hit in November and the one that hit...
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December 3, 2006
U.S. Not the Only Nation Spinning Global Warming
U.S. Not the Only Nation Spinning Global Warming While the world has been more than frustrated with the lack of action on the part of the United States, China is not moving very far very fast either. Perhaps part of the reason resides in the information that the...
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November 26, 2006
Carbon Footprint Series
Carbon Footprint Series The Oregonian is running a series on personal carbon footprints. Patrick O'Neill talks about how to reduce 200 pounds of CO2 by changing your breakfast routine. He continues with a piece on reducing impact beyond your home. There is also...
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November 20, 2006
Do You Dream About Drowning Polar Bears?
Do You Dream About Drowning Polar Bears? Do you dream about drowning polar bears, weary seals, and starving walruses? I do. Each day the ice gets thinner. Polar bears swim over 80 miles, and finding neither ice nor food, they drown. I have thought and thought about...
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November 18, 2006
Shall The Cradle Fall?
Shall The Cradle Fall? Africa, the home of the human race. Science indicates she birthed us. She nurtured our infancy. Some went out from her to spread across the Earth. Others stayed and continued an unbroken relationship with our birthplace. Africa was, and is,...
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October 31, 2006
Peak Oil, Global Warming, Oh My!
Peak Oil, Global Warming, Oh My! Peak oil and global warming - the Janus catastrophes of our times. Entwined and interrelated, they are equally symptoms of systemic collapse. We face the collapse of natural systems, caused by the insanity of social systems, and leading to the...
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October 26, 2006
The Independent Throws Gauntlet At Blair
The Independent Throws Gauntlet At Blair The Independent has thrown the gauntlet at Tony Blair's approach to global warming with their Green Manifesto. Here are the highlights: - Decentralise energy production - Rethink aviation policy - Curb road pollution - Step up the drive for renewable...
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October 15, 2006
History and Global Warming
History and Global Warming Share the article and site below with everyone you know! 10/16/06 Spencer Weart, HNN, Global Warming: How History Is Being Manipulated to Undermine Calls for Action The Discovery of Global Warming "A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly)...
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October 10, 2006
ALERT: Southeast Asia's Burning Rainforests and Peatland Threaten World's Climate
ALERT: Southeast Asia's Burning Rainforests and Peatland Threaten World's Climate Originally posted at Climate Ark TAKE ACTION: On November 6th governments from all over the world will be meeting in Nairobi for the year's most important United Nations climate change talks. To date international policy discussions have largely ignored the...
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October 8, 2006
Global Warming - High Stakes High Costs
Global Warming - High Stakes High Costs The price tag to cap global warming emissions? According to PriceWaterhouseCoopers the answer is $1,000,000,000,000. The cost of not capping and decreasing emissions? Massive death and devastation....
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September 22, 2006
The Global Warming Snowball
The Global Warming Snowball Reading the news, it seems clear that global warming has become a snow ball rolling down hill gathering both size and speed. It seems that there is no good news to be had, and each new study and report is...
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September 2, 2006
Rapid Warming & Bad Solutions
Rapid Warming & Bad Solutions Global warming continues to accelerate, and increasingly unpredictable. As I read the news, my interpretation is "throw out the predictions." Why? It is clear that there are feedback loops and areas where scientists just don't know enough. There are unpredictable...
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August 27, 2006
Ocean Currents, Dead Zones, and Global Warming
Ocean Currents, Dead Zones, and Global Warming For the fifth year in a row, a dead zone has formed off the Oregon Coast. First documented in 2002, the dead zone has formed for each of the last five years - though in two of those years the...
Link to Ocean Currents, Dead Zones, and Global Warming | August 27, 2006 7:20 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Global Warming
August 24, 2006
Peak Moment Television
Peak Moment Television I had the great experience of being interviewed by the Yuba Gals - producers of Peak Moment Television. Peak Moment is a project of the for Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE) out of Nevada City, California. They are...
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August 11, 2006
Greenland Ice sheet Melt Accelerating
Greenland Ice sheet Melt Accelerating According to a report in the August 11, 2006 BBC, the Greenland ice sheet is "speeding up." Using a calculation that measures earth's gravity and mass, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have determined that the ice sheet...
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August 3, 2006
Global Warming Overstated?
Global Warming Overstated? An interesting UK media analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has concluded that some British reporting on climate change amounts to "climate porn." "Apocalyptic visions of climate change used by newspapers, environmental groups and the UK government...
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July 24, 2006
Death of the Rainforest - Catastrophic Change
Death of the Rainforest - Catastrophic Change The Amazon rainforest is dying. It could become a desert. The study being conducted in the Amazon is absolutely devastating news....
Link to Death of the Rainforest - Catastrophic Change | July 24, 2006 11:25 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Global Warming
July 23, 2006
The Planet is Sizzling
The Planet is Sizzling The Guardian headline says it all "100º - get used to it." It is clear that the earth is not just dealing with a heat wave. The news of the heat is dire, but the implications are starting to hit...
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July 11, 2006
Server Farms and the Environment
Server Farms and the Environment Perhaps I am a bit slow, but a report on NPR called "Cheap and Reliable Power Nurtures Server Farms" stunned me. Back in about 1994, I was meeting with a group of internet consultants about connecting a program I worked...
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July 7, 2006
Global Warming and Earthquakes
Global Warming and Earthquakes Well as if droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, and heat waves weren't enough, scientists are now talking about earthquakes and volcanoes being linked to global warming. The theory runs like this. The ice sheets and glaciers are ice, and that weighs a...
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July 4, 2006
The Media And Science
The Media And Science What do you ideally expect when you watch or read the news? Ideally, I expect facts and unbiased reporting. That is rarely what one gets. One expects that differing points of view will be included, but that fact remains fact....
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July 1, 2006
An Inconvenient Truth and NativeEnergy
An Inconvenient Truth and NativeEnergy SEE THIS MOVIE I finally got the opportunity to see "An Inconvenient Truth." It is an exceptional presentation on global warming. The visuals are very good, and recent information is included - like the CO2 measurements over the last 650,000...
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June 25, 2006
Why Does Global Warming Seem To Be Happening So Quickly?
Why Does Global Warming Seem To Be Happening So Quickly? Read the news, or read the reports, underlying the discussion of global warming is a sense of panic. It is all happening too fast. The search is on to try and figure out why, but so far there is tantalizing...
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June 21, 2006
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Still Increasing
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Still Increasing The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) has released a new report The Carbon Boom (pdf) - or here. The report looks in detail at U.S. carbon emissions from 1960 to 2005. It examines the 95% increase in CO2 emissions...
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June 6, 2006
Jet Stream Is Shifting
Jet Stream Is Shifting According to a report in Science, "Enhanced Mid-Latitude Tropospheric Warming in Satellite Measurements," the Jet stream is bulging outward from the equator. I do not have access to the full report, but an AP story provides more depth....
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June 4, 2006
Oil Lust And Climate Collapse
Oil Lust And Climate Collapse As Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" gets both rave reviews from most, and the cold shoulder from others, climate change is real and we all know it. The tension level in hurricane areas seems to be pretty high, and insurance...
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May 31, 2006
What Effects Would A Massive U.S. Heatwave Be?
What Effects Would A Massive U.S. Heatwave Be? If the 2003 European heatwave had occurred in the US what would have been the effects? In 2003 Europe was hit by the most extreme heatwave since meteorological measurements began. Not only where records for max temperature broken but...
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May 17, 2006
Global Warming: Who Lives Who Dies?
Global Warming: Who Lives Who Dies? It seems easy sitting in the most consuming, capitalist nation in the world to think that global warming is not a big deal. There is a belief that no matter what nature throws this way that "technology" can handle it....
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May 4, 2006
Proof of Global Warming
Proof of Global Warming Sorry - creator unknown...
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April 19, 2006
Global Warming Programs
Global Warming Programs Just wanted to give folks a heads up. There are two global warming specials on this week. One is on PBS Nova, and is called "Global Dimming. I watched it last night, and I must say it did not make...
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April 15, 2006
Climate Alert
Climate Alert The news this week has been frightening out of the UK with reports that a 3C rise in temperature is expected in this century, and that 400 million people will be at risk. Noted in these articles and reports,...
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April 3, 2006
More Scientists Think It Is Too Late To Stop Global Warming
More Scientists Think It Is Too Late To Stop Global Warming Republished from 4/03/06 Seth Borenstein, AP, Is It Too Late to Stop Global Warming? In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included...
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March 30, 2006
Mileage Requirements Are A Joke
Mileage Requirements Are A Joke Bush announced that he is requiring a fuel efficiency increase for light trucks and SUVs by 2011. The increase is optimistically expected to save roughly 10% consumption. Why is this not a big deal? Well, because instead of improving efficiency...
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March 6, 2006
Global Warming - A Frightening Thought
Global Warming - A Frightening Thought Things on the global warming front have changed rather dramatically over the last five years. We have moved from a crisis that might culminate some time in the 22nd century to one that is creeping into this one. If I...
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February 19, 2006
Katrina Is Not History
Katrina Is Not History As the investigation into the failed response to Hurricane Katrina drags on, we see what has become a pattern of graft, cronyism, incompetence. FEMA's almost billion dollar purchase of mobile and modular homes largely sit decaying in a filed in...
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February 17, 2006
Global Warming Is Accelerating
Global Warming Is Accelerating There are a flurry of articles coming out about the acceleration of global warming. This is because of the reports coming out of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Conference which is currently in session (2.16-2.20) in...
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February 7, 2006
Global Warming And North Atlantic Temperatures
Global Warming And North Atlantic Temperatures There is an excellent article by Stuart Staniford over at The Oil Drum titled Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference. The article details, with graphs and images included, the North Atlantic surface temerature changes from 1860 to the present. It goes on to...
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January 31, 2006
Liberty Lost - Chaos Reigns
Liberty Lost - Chaos Reigns A lot of things have changed since George W. Bush went into office in 2001. Maybe my bias shows in saying that I can't think of one of those changes that have been positive. But a series of changes are...
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January 29, 2006
Hey They Agree - Global Warming Is Real
Hey They Agree - Global Warming Is Real After decades of bogus arguments there is now a consensus that global warming is happening. Now the debate is when the tipping point will be. I must say that I am beyond angry that the false arguments have held any...
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January 24, 2006
Imminent Peril, Part 1
Imminent Peril, Part 1 This article originally went out through several different sources in spring & summer of 2003. However, the collection of scientific statements referred to in this report are possibly the most important announcements of our lifetime, and still have not received...
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January 16, 2006
Of Climate, Environment, And Extinction
Of Climate, Environment, And Extinction The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere seem to be increasing dramatically according to an article by Geoffrey Lean of the Independent. The article entitled "Global warming to speed up as carbon levels show sharp rise," states that scientists...
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January 12, 2006
More Bull On Global Warming
More Bull On Global Warming Well what is being tagged as "the polluters conference"is ending today. It is formally called the "Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate." Ministers and Business representatives from Australia, China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States...
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December 31, 2005
More Bad News Ahead
More Bad News Ahead How far do greenhouse gas emissions need to drop in order to change the global warming path we are on? According to Guy Brasseur, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology 80 to90%. Well that level of emissions decrease would mean stopping...
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December 22, 2005
ANWR Gets A Reprieve
ANWR Gets A Reprieve The Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has gotten a brief reprieve after senators were successful in having it removed from the Defense Appropriations package. However, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has vowed to fight on to open ANWR to drilling....
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December 18, 2005
Global Warming? You Think?
Global Warming? You Think? After decades of denial and inaction about global warming, we seem to be reaping the the harvest of our folly. Here is a sampling of effects and issues that have made the news in the last year. When you hear...
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December 9, 2005
Global Warming Up, Agreements Down
Global Warming Up, Agreements Down The U.N. Climate Change Summit in Montreal looks like it is going nowhere fast. Perhaps they do not realize the critical pace at which global warming is preceding. Such as the retreat of Greenland's glaciers, or the dramatic slowing of...
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December 2, 2005
Fire or Ice - Which Will It Be?
Fire or Ice - Which Will It Be? The headline reads "Scientists Say Slower Atlantic Currents Could Mean a Colder Europe. The currents in the Atlantic are slowing significantly, which means that the warm waters of the Gulf Stream won't be moving north. That means the colder waters...
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November 30, 2005
What is the future of action on Climate Change?
What is the future of action on Climate Change? With Russian ratification of the Kyoto Protocol during 2005 attention has quickly shifted to what happens next. The Kyoto commitment period ends in 2012 and no clear plan for what follows currently exists. In this article however I am not...
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November 26, 2005
It Is Us Driving Global Warming
It Is Us Driving Global Warming The latest report from European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) removes any doubts that humans are dramatically affecting the climate. New core samples from Antarctica show that current CO2 (carbon dioxide) levels are higher than they have been...
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November 20, 2005
Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least
Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least A report released by the World Health Organization says that 150,000 people a year are dying from the effects of global warming, and that number could double in the next 15 years. The report is discussed in a Washington Post...
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November 17, 2005
Climate Change Predictions
Climate Change Predictions The magazine "Nature" has an interesting article on the possible impacts of global warming on each continent. The only publicly (non-subscription) article available is Climate change: world round-up. Michael Hopkins points out that there are many variables so exact prediction...
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November 2, 2005
Global Warming And Poverty - Not A One Way Street
Global Warming And Poverty - Not A One Way Street The title reads UN Warns of Poverty as World's Lakes Evaporate. The story goes that the warming climate is drying up lakes around the world, as they dry up the poverty of the populations dependent on them also increases -...
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October 31, 2005
Rebuilding The South With Immigrant Sweat: Business As Usual
Rebuilding The South With Immigrant Sweat: Business As Usual In the wake of hurricane Katrina, Bush swore to rebuild New Orleans (and one presumes the rest of the hurricane devastated area). No bid contracts were handed out to the usual crew of military favorites - including Halliburton. To speed...
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October 30, 2005
Climate Change: Facts and Impacts (part 4 of 4)
Climate Change: Facts and Impacts (part 4 of 4) Ø Given the impacts of business as usual emissions we need to act now. What is the maximum increase in temperature the planet can tollerate? The answer to this question has, necessarily, to be somewhat arbitrary, any change in...
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October 28, 2005
Evangelical Platform: Homosexuals, Abortion, and Global Warming?
Evangelical Platform: Homosexuals, Abortion, and Global Warming?On last week's Living on Earth, which you should really be listening to anyway, Reverend Richard Cizik, director of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, laid out his organization's plan for helping the environment.
No, seriously. Stop laughing!
I'm as shocked as you are, but as Cizik points out, any biblical Christian really SHOULD care about the environment.
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October 27, 2005
Look Out Pacific Northwest
Look Out Pacific Northwest According to scientists from the University of Washington - Seattle, the Pacific Northwest is heating up more rapidly than other areas of the plane. For those of us who live here this doesn't come as a huge surprise. If fact,...
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October 25, 2005
Wilma the Unpredictable
Wilma the Unpredictable Wilma is once more proving itself to be unpredictable. After meandering around the Caribbean Sea Wilma jumps from a Category 1 hurricane to a monster 5. Then it parks over the Yucatan and drops 5 plus feet of rain. Then...
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October 21, 2005
The Earth Is Screaming
The Earth Is Screaming The earth is screaming and those who can't hear it are beyond deaf. Global warming is not a future problem. It is here. It is now. It is going to get worse. Do we really need a headline that reads...
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October 19, 2005
Wilma Explodes Over Night
Wilma Explodes Over Night Yesterday they predicted that Hurricane Wilma would become a Category 3 hurricane over night. This morning it has jumped to a Category 5 and the strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. It has a pressure reading of 844...
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October 17, 2005
Climate Change: Facts and Impacts (part 3 of 4)
Climate Change: Facts and Impacts (part 3 of 4)What changes do we expect?
The answer to this question is complex. I will limit my attempt to answer this question by making one big assumption: Abrupt Climate Change will not occur. This assumption is useful for me because I can explain the known impacts of ‘business as usual’ relatively easily. This is not a luxury that policy makers or economists have, if they are acting responsibly. Just as businesses ‘hedge against’ uncertainties and take out insurance policies so policy makers need to hedge against the chance of abrupt climate change. The shut down of the gulf stream for example is of uncertain probability but a 10% chance is the level at which many climate scientists regard this occurrence. As Richard Alley, one of the world’s top climate scientists points out:
Continued bellow...
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A Interview i recently did about Climate Change
A Interview i recently did about Climate ChangeIf you are interested in climate change you may be interested in a recent interview i did on an energy website called TheWatt.
http://www.thewatt.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=30&author=
This was based loosely around my recent report on climate change which is available for download on my blog.
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October 14, 2005
Reading Recommendation
Reading Recommendation There is a very good resource now available from the European Energy Commission. The 48 page report is available in Adobe format Doing More With Less - Green Paper on Energy Efficiency. They have also released a slide show presentation...
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October 13, 2005
Global Warming and Natural Gas
Global Warming and Natural Gas The Northeastern and Midwest United States are facing a colder than usual winter and the warnings are out about a dramatic increase in natural gas prices. However, while the hurricanes are largely being blamed for the US problem, it is...
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October 9, 2005
Climate Change: Facts and Impacts (Part 2 of 4)
Climate Change: Facts and Impacts (Part 2 of 4)Ø What are the expected effects of anthropogenic Climate Change?
This question has already been partially answered, climate change is already happening and around the world vulnerable communities, ecosystems and nations are feeling the impacts. To answer this question effectively it is necessary to look at two questions, each from an environmental and a human perspective:
1. What changes have already been observed?
- What effects on the environment will these changes have?
- What effects these changes have on humans?
2. What changes can we expect if emissions continue in an unmitigated fashion?
- What effects on the environment will these changes have?
- What effects these changes have on humans?
1. What changes have already been observed?
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October 7, 2005
Gulf Coast Debacle Off the Headlines, But Not Over
Gulf Coast Debacle Off the Headlines, But Not Over It seems that the corporate media has agreed to largely go back to "business as usual," and the ongoing crisis along the Gulf Coast from hurricanes Katrina and Rita are shoved to the background. The reality is that the "relief"...
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October 1, 2005
A Local Climate Change Forum
A Local Climate Change Forum Just wanted to advise anyone living in the greater Portland (OR) area that there will be a "climate change" (I guess this is the PC term for global warming) forum at Marylhurst University in West Linn, next Saturday from 8:30AM-4:00PM....
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September 30, 2005
Of Global Warming and Hurricanes
Of Global Warming and Hurricanes I am not sure why there seems to be any debate about whether global warming is happening, whether humans are implicated in the temperature increase, and whether global warming is causing the increase in number and severity of hurricanes. It...
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September 25, 2005
Climate Change-Facts and Impacts Part (1 of 4)
Climate Change-Facts and Impacts Part (1 of 4)Climate Change: Facts and Impacts
Ø Is it happening, is it human caused?
Human induced Climate Change is the more accurate of two terms, the other being Global Warming. The importance of this is that in a complex system such as earth’s atmosphere a general warming does not necessarily lead to warming everywhere, it leads to changes in climate throughout the world, a redistribution of an increased amount of energy in a far from uniform manner. The two primary questions you might ask about what I have just said are:
1. Do we know for sure that the climate is changing?
2. Couldn’t this be as a result of natural variation in the climate system?
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September 23, 2005
Pictures of Katrina Hitting Bay St. Louis
Pictures of Katrina Hitting Bay St. Louis Entry deleted aspictures were apparently a hoax....
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September 22, 2005
Of Hurricanes, Petroleum, and Us
Of Hurricanes, Petroleum, and Us I had a bad feeling about Katrina which surpassed even my glum prognostications. I have an even worse feeling about Rita. This goes beyond concerns that gas may go above $5 a gallon. Yesterday's Rigzone proclaimed Hurricane Rita Takes Aim...
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September 16, 2005
The Invisible Victims of Katrina
The Invisible Victims of Katrina The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has brought the issues of race and class into high relief. As is typical of the cultural ideology of racism, the issue is drawn in Black and White. Underneath this cultural dichotomy lies the...
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September 8, 2005
Hurricanes and Global Warming
Hurricanes and Global WarmingRealClimate has some great info on the connections between hurricane activity and global warming.
I pointed to this story about MIT professor Kerry Emmanuel in my little rant the other day. Emmanuel says that the intensity of hurricanes has increased 70-80 percent since the 1970s. The duration of storms has gone up 50 percent. He says that "you should see about a ten percent increase in wind speed for every two degree sea change. That theoretical prediction has been backed up since then by lots of modeling that has been done elsewhere by other groups." Emmanuel's entire paper from the journal Nature is available here (PDF).
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September 4, 2005
Butterfly Effect: From Land Clearing to Hurricane Katrina?
Butterfly Effect: From Land Clearing to Hurricane Katrina? Is there a correlation between the scorch and burn land-clearing depredations in Indonesia and Hurricane Katrina? I am reminded of the "butterfly effect," where a pair of flapping wings in Beijing has the potential to create a storm half-way across...
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September 2, 2005
Disaster From Bad To Worse
Disaster From Bad To Worse I keeping hoping for the tide to turn. It is not. The domino effect continues. The lack of effective response continues. The death toll rises. Now there is a chemical plant burning in New Orleans. As expected, no one can...
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August 19, 2005
The Price Of Oil
The Price Of Oil The price of a barrel of oil has dropped back slightly from it's $67 a barrel spot, but don't hold your breath on it staying there or dropping much further. Recent reports of protests in Ecuador shutting down oil exports,...
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August 11, 2005
Global Warming - Have We Hit the "Tipping Point?"
Global Warming - Have We Hit the "Tipping Point?" The frozen peat tundra of Siberia is thawing, and this will speed global warming. The peat tundra covers about 1 million square miles, and as it thaws tons of methane could be released into the atmosphere. Since global warming predictions...
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August 9, 2005
More Oil Price Increases
More Oil Price Increases The Independent (UK) takes today's prize for reporting on petroleum price increases and the effects of them with three articles in one day. The Guardian (UK) comes in a close second with two stories. What is driving the stories is...
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July 29, 2005
Global Warming is a "Private Theory"
Global Warming is a "Private Theory" I had hoped that since George Bush had come partially to his senses in admitting that global warming is happening and that humans are involved, that the corporate media would as well. Instead, I am hearing sound bite reports that...
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July 26, 2005
Melting Ice Sheet Bodes Doom for Coasts
Melting Ice Sheet Bodes Doom for Coasts Independent scientists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have measured a dramatic increase in both the melting and the retreat of Kangerdlugssuaq glacier in Greenland. [picture]. The Helheim Glacier is also "disintegrating"....
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July 24, 2005
Now It's Sand
Now It's Sand Look out Florida - there is a massive sand storm heading your way. NBC6 has a series of pictures of the sand cloud and the 1995 storm. As one tropical storm and hurricane has rumbled toward Florida and the southern...
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July 22, 2005
Please Don't Sell Us Out
Please Don't Sell Us Out As the so-called "energy" bill wends its way to law, the oil companies are trying to get off cheap and get what they want by offering to throw $2 billion into cleaning up MTBE (and other environmentally hazardous additives) into...
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July 20, 2005
Just Another Hurricane Season?
Just Another Hurricane Season? Is this just another hurricane season? I think not. We just had the fifth named storm - a record for a season that has started early. I heard a climatologist from the National Weather Service remark that "We usually see...
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July 16, 2005
Bad News for Limiting Greenhouse Gases
Bad News for Limiting Greenhouse Gases A ruling on July 15, 2005 by the District of Columbia Federal Court of Appeals, supported the Bush administration's EPA policy to not reduce tailpipe emissions. The regulation is being challenged by states, cities, and environmental groups. "The decision -...
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July 9, 2005
Couldn't We Have Gotten More Than "Talk" on Global Warming?
Couldn't We Have Gotten More Than "Talk" on Global Warming? I guess that I shouldn't be surprised, but I am deeply disappointed that all that came out of the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, was an agreement to talk. I realize that Bush provides the log jam on the issue, but...
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July 7, 2005
Global Warming and Developing Nations
Global Warming and Developing Nations Michael McCarthy has a good article in the Independent about the contribution of "developing" nations (i.e. China, India, Brazil) to global warming, and praises Blair for inviting them to the G8 conference. I would agree that they definitely should be...
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July 4, 2005
Pick Your Spin On Bush Climate Change
Pick Your Spin On Bush Climate Change Pick your spin: Bush strikes blow to Blair's hopes of global warming deal (Independent, 7/04/05) OR US close to climate change concessions (Guardian, 7/04/05)....
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June 26, 2005
Seeing Is Believing, Or Believing Is Seeing?
Seeing Is Believing, Or Believing Is Seeing? I frequently talk to my classes about global warming and ask them "What would make people respond to this problem?" I consistently get the response "When people see it," or "When it affects them." Since I see the changes happening...
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June 23, 2005
Modeling Global Warming
Modeling Global Warming I just happened across a resource that folks may find useful. There are a series of visual models of global warming available from the NOAA (National Oceanagraphic and Atmospheric Association) and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). There are two...
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Charles Keeling - Discoverer of Global Warming - Dies
Charles Keeling - Discoverer of Global Warming - Dies We have Charles Keeling to thank for sounding the alarm on global warming. He is the one who first started measuring CO2 in the atmosphere, kept pushing to get global monitoring and made the link to human contributions to global...
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June 19, 2005
The G8 Should Oust The US - Updated
The G8 Should Oust The US - Updated Updated 6/19/05 at end of article. Main article originially published 6/17/05. OK, My Name is Rowan Wolf and I live in the United States which has a president (I didn't vote for) who is intent on denying that global warming...
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June 12, 2005
BP is NOT a Green Company
BP is NOT a Green Company Despite its efforts to present itself as a "green" company, and a business leader on controlling CO2 emissions, British Petroleum is anything but. The proof is in the pudding so they say, and BP's fight in the US against mandatory...
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June 10, 2005
How Much Will Global Warming Cost? Look At Shishmaref
How Much Will Global Warming Cost? Look At Shishmaref Shishmaref is an island off the coast of Alaska which is the home to roughly 562 Inupiats. The island has been disappearing at a rate of 13 to 22 feet a year. The Army Corps of Engineers will be moving...
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June 3, 2005
Schwarzenegger's Global Warming Plan
Schwarzenegger's Global Warming Plan Governor Schwarzenegger has announced what seems to be an ambitious plan to cut emission of global warming gases in California. While the announcement seems ambitious - ultimately an 80% reduction below 1990 levels by 2050, it was announced as a...
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May 29, 2005
Taxing Gas Guzzlers?
Taxing Gas Guzzlers? The headline from the UK reads "Owners of gas-guzzling cars to be hit by five-fold tax increase." The proposed tax would rise from 150 pounds a year to 900. The proposal is aimed at attacking the production of greenhouse gases,...
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May 28, 2005
Airplanes And Global Warming
Airplanes And Global Warming I always thought that airplanes had to cause a fair amount of pollution and global warming; however, I never saw anything that predicted how much pollution was involved. That is until I read Revealed: The real cost of air travel....
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May 15, 2005
Trading In Pollution - Turning Pollution Into A Commodity
Trading In Pollution - Turning Pollution Into A Commodity Under the Kyoto a program is in place known as the carbon development mechanism or CDM. It sets up a mechanism for developed nations to trade their carbon emissions by investing in less polluting development in in developing nations. In...
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May 14, 2005
Global Warming and Doubting Thomases
Global Warming and Doubting Thomases The headline read, Damage from Warming Becoming 'Irreversible,' Says New Report (OneWorld.net, 3/15/04). "We are quickly moving to the point where the damage will be irreversible," warned Dr. Jonathan Pershing, director of WRI's Climate, Energy and Pollution Program. "In fact,...
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May 3, 2005
If You Think Oil Is A Problem, What About Water?
If You Think Oil Is A Problem, What About Water? We know that oil is a precious commodity and that our (modern day) lives depend on it, but we take water for granted - at least in the U.S. we do. Water doesn't make the news much in the U.S,...
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April 29, 2005
Global Warming? Let's Not Talk About That
Global Warming? Let's Not Talk About That The Republican party's talking points say not to use the term "global warming", but to use "climate change" instead. Bush has been resistant to even using that, but the General Accountability Office is warning that the administration's legally mandated research...
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April 20, 2005
In the Media Today- Earthquake of Astronomical Proportions
In the Media Today- Earthquake of Astronomical Proportions It started with "The Day After Tomorrow." Since then, television companies have been feverishly trying to show us what a massive natural disaster could look like for North America. How many of you saw the miniseries on NBC of...
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April 17, 2005
Isn't Carbon Sequestration A Dumb Idea?
Isn't Carbon Sequestration A Dumb Idea? I have wondered since I heard the first reports several years ago about pumping carbon dioxide into the ocean floor (a process known as "carbon sequestration") whether it might be harmful to the oceans. In fact, I raised questions about...
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April 10, 2005
Environmental collapse - sooner not later
Environmental collapse - sooner not later There is an interesting article in the February 9, 2004 edition of Fortune Magazine - CLIMATE COLLAPSE - The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare (permalink - by David Stipp. The Pentagon is apparently taking "climate change" seriously even if the White House...
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April 3, 2005
Choosing A Path Or A Path Already Chosen?
Choosing A Path Or A Path Already Chosen? We are in the midst of three interlocking crises - the end of oil, global warming with potential climate collapse, and environmental collapse. They are not somewhere out in the future, they are here now. Every new report only affirms...
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