The atmosphere is to the earth as a layer of varnish is to a desktop globe. It is thin, fragile and essential for preserving the items on the surface.150 years of burning fossil fuel have overloaded the atmosphere to the point where the earth is ill. It now has a fever. Read the detailed article, Soothing Gaia’s Fever for an evocative account of that analogy. The items listed here detail progress on coordinating 6.5 billion people in the most critical project undertaken by humanity.Â
Do we need a Plan B for the fossil fuel industry? Posted: 09 Feb 2013 02:15 PM PST by Graeme Taylor Is their any future for the oil and coal industries without doing what they do now: burning the stuff? In Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, Bill McKibben argues that: We have five times as Continue Reading →
Dependence on coal a bad strategy with shift to renewables unstoppable Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:30 PM PST By Richard Denniss, via The Conversation Last week, Greenpeace released a report calling for a halt to Australia’s burgeoning coal exports and pointing to the catastrophic climate impacts they would cause. In response, Mitch Hooke, chief executive Continue Reading →
Battery-powered intercity trains possible, says government study Research for Department of Transport reveals trains could travel 600 miles on single charge if fossil fuel prices trigger demand Share31 inShare.3 Email Peter Walker guardian.co.uk, Sunday 3 February 2013 13.51 GMT Jump to comments (114) Research indicated battery-powered trains could travel up to 600 miles on a Continue Reading →
Obama faces Keystone dilemma after Senate urges pipeline approval No reason to deny project, bipartisan majority says, but others in Congress press Obama to back up climate change commitment Share77 inShare.3 Email Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 January 2013 17.34 GMT Jump to comments (39) North Dakota senator John Hoeven shows the Continue Reading →
Connecting the dots to local climate impacts is a key to community engagement Posted: 21 Jan 2013 03:52 PM PST by Graeme Taylor Notwithstanding Australia’s record-smashing heatwave, the impacts of climate change are often perceived to be distant in time and space. Most Australians do not yet understand the scale and urgency of what UN Continue Reading →
Climate change and the myth of human progress Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:33 PM PST Illustration by Mr. Fish, TruthDig Note: On present climate policy settings, the world is headed to 4 degrees C of warming by 2100, perhaps as early as 2060. We’ve known that for at least the last five years, but in Continue Reading →