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The Genocidal Species
The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole As a species, humans are genocidal. This is a fact. We are genociding multiple species right now, we have genocided many in the past. We are driving so many species...
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The Bleak View of the World’s Problems (Or: They’re All Going to Have to Die)
The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole So then, the simplest gloss of humanity’s problems is that the world’s problem is humans. We have clear threats to our existence, threats which, at the least, will...
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Making Sure YOU Stay Alive When Millions Are Dying
Okay, my friends, it’s time to talk seriously. We are screwed, blued, and tattooed. We are so fucked that we can’t see straight. The vast majority of people are in complete denial about the level of...
View ArticleGulf Stream Likely To Reverse Sooner Than Expected
Yeah, so this is bad news. “I think we’re close to a tipping point,” climatologist Michael Mann told ThinkProgress in an email. The AMOC slow down “is without precedent” in more than a millennium he...
View ArticleRate of Antarctic Ice Loss Has Increased Three Times Since 2007
So, yeah. Again, as I have said for a long time, the consensus reports are always wrong and when new data comes in it is almost always worse than predicted. There appear to be self-reinforcing cycles...
View Article(A Just World) Hang’em High
In a just world, all the leaders responsible for doing nothing (including corporate leaders) would be hung high and all their property confiscated (including that given to relatives and friends). This...
View ArticleMuch of Western America Will Be Uninhabitable In 40 Years
Large parts of the US will be riven by permanent drought in the rather forseeable future. And fracking is making it worse… much worse. The game-changing study from Duke University found that “from 2011...
View ArticleBaked In, Baked Off: The Trump Administration Climate “Admission”
MANDOS POST MANDOS POST MANDOS POST The next century from this point on is likely to be pretty awful, and unless something changes drastically Real Soon Now, a lot of that will be due to very large...
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Bend Over And Kiss Your Ass Goodbye: IPCC Report Version
Read, and weep. Once more. Climate change is settled science. Climate change is past the point of no return. (If you believe that nations are even going to keep the Paris agreement targets, you’re such...
View ArticleShun The Climate Change Deniers
Guest Post by *Eric A. Anderson* Guest Post I have a little boy. He is my first, and most likely, only child — and he is everything to me. I once thought that I knew what love is. I am still learning...
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Our Germophobic, Plastic-addicted Society
Recently saw this picture, and had to laugh, because you’d never see this today in the West. Ham Sandwich, Cup of Tea & a Penguin.. under £1. 1970s. #oldlondon pic.twitter.com/0qgQcPdq2y — Old...
View ArticleThe Day the World Ended
A small point: If we had started reducing emissions back in 2000, we’d only have to reduce them by 2% per year to limit warming to 2C by 2100. Today we’d have to reduce them by 5% per year. If we wait...
View ArticleWater Wars And the Great Indian Die-Off
Humans can go without food for weeks. Water, a few days: Under the leadership of Hon’ble PM Sri @narendramodi ji, Our Govt. has decided to stop our share of water which used to flow to Pakistan. We...
View ArticleClimate Change and Game Theory
**This Article Is By Stirling Newberry** It is certainly true that if you want to know the economic outcome of a situation, it is best to study Game Theory. But it is also true, that if everyone else...
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Is There Hope For Mitigating Climate Change?
I’ve always felt that the last thing which came out of Pandora’s box, hope, was the worst thing to come out. People wouldn’t put up with the evils of the world so readily if they didn’t feel hope. Most...
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One Million Species at Risk of Extinction + One
So, you’ve probably seen all the articles aboutthe UN report which finds that one million species are at risk of extinction, out of the 8.7 million species we believe exist. That’s more than 10...
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Say Goodbye to Permafrost (And Civilization)?
So, atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are now higher than they have ever been since homo sapiens have existed. Meanwhile, on Russia’s arctic coast, which is permafrost, the temperature is 29C, 84F....
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The Most Important Climate Change Graph You’ll Every See
This is why we won’t be stopping climate change, and why you must personally plan for it. We are not going to start mitigating at 5% this year. We are not going to start mitigating at 9% in 2029. These...
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Why The Consensus Environmental Predictions Are Wrong
So, a little bit ago I noted that with temperatures of 70 degrees in the arctic, we could expect permafrost to melt, and that would release methane. Methane is a lot stronger greenhouse gas than...
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The Problem With Neoliberal “It’s Never Been Better” Triumphalism
Saying that humanity is currently the best off it has ever been (a dubious proposition in any case) is like saying “I’ve never been warmer” as you burn down your house. People like Pinker have been...
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