Environment

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say (11/18/2024)

Trump 2.0 could make even the most optimistic climate observers cynical – but it’s not the whole story (11/11/2024)

Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him George Monbiot (11/7/2024)

Trump would be an “Extinction-Level Event” for the Planet, Turbocharging Climate Change. Vote Accordingly. (11/05/2024)

Trump, the Candidate from Hell, wants to Make America a Hellhole (8/16/2024)

World must exit ‘highway to climate hell’, UN boss warns, as records are again broken (6/5/2024)

World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target (5/8/2024)

My Fellow Conservatives Are Wrong on Climate Change (4/27/2024)

Election of Donald Trump 'could put world's climate goals at risk' (3/31/2024)

Conservatives want Trump 2.0 to bury climate science (2/2/2024)

Blinded by ignorance and self-absorption, humanity is destroying the creation. There is still time to assume the stewardship of the natural world that we owe to future human generations." E. O. Wilson, The Creation. (2006)

climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop. Susan Solomon et al

RFK: The "Gang of Five" foundations that are huge repositories of industrial polluter money [the John.M Olin Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Castle Rock Foundation, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Bradley Foundation] have been used to create think tanks, to recruit phony scientists that we call “biostitutes” and to fund politicians in order to undermine and subvert those environmental laws that were passed after Earth Day: the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act. Industry was kind of caught off-guard by Earth Day and the legislative barrage that followed. But since then, they’ve mobilized to regain control of the public trust assets. And really, the best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets. Does it maintain the air and water under control of the people for the benefit of the public, or does it allow those assets to be privatized by politically powerful entities? from an interview with Mother Jones 10/7/2004

Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

The climate crisis explained in 10 charts (11/30/2023)

I’m a climate scientist and I think society will collapse by 2050. Here’s how I’m preparing (9/25/2023)

Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find (9/13/2023)

‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate? (8/28/2023)

‘Project 2025’: plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican president (7/27/2023)

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come (7/19/2023)

US Republicans oppose climate funding as millions suffer in extreme weather (7/13/2023)

The last Time there was this much CO2, there were Sabertooth Tigers, California Monsoons and an Undersea Florida (4/8/2023)

Humanity at the climate crossroads: highway to hell or a livable future? (3/20/2023) Guardian

A climate denier who received hundreds of thousands of dollars from fossil fuel companies and polluters will be running the EPA.

Trump isn't just a threat to the US.
His administration is threat to the entire planet.https://t.co/LZ2uEG1ILd

— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) November 11, 2024

The pace of climate change, and the insufficiency of humanity’s current response, have effectively already made the choice for us: mankind will have to engage in some kind of “geoengineering” – an umbrella term for various methods of intentional, planetary-scale climate intervention – whether we like it or not. What if it’s too late to save our planet without geoengineering? (8/26/2021)

...the costs of climate change, if not addressed, will be equivalent to losing 5 percent (and potentially as much as 20 percent) of the global gross domestic product (GDP) each year, now and forever." Hundreds of millions of people could be threatened with hunger, water shortages, and severe economic deprivation. "Climate change is the greatest example of market failure we have ever seen."
from the Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change. (updated 8/2011 in Technology Review Magazine).

"...Systemic risk in the financial system can be remedied by the taxpayer, but no one will come to the rescue if the environment is destroyed. That it must be destroyed is close to an institutional imperative. Business leaders who are conducting propaganda campaigns to convince the population that anthropogenic global warming is a liberal hoax understand full well how grave is the threat, but they must maximize short-term profit and market share. If they don't, someone else will. This vicious cycle could well turn out to be lethal. To see how grave the danger is, simply have a look at the new Congress in the U.S., propelled into power by business funding and propaganda. Almost all are climate deniers. They have already begun to cut funding for measures that might mitigate environmental catastrophe. Worse, some are true believers; for example, the new head of a subcommittee on the environment who explained that global warming cannot be a problem because God promised Noah that there will not be another flood." Noam Chomsky (8/12/2012)

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics. Rachel Carson

Trump ...filled his cabinet with some of America’s top climate deniers. He is attempting to cancel the Clean Power Plan and reverse higher fuel-efficiency standards. He opened our coasts and public lands to drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He imposed tariffs on solar panels and sought to subsidize coal-fired power plants. In the first half of his term, he has the worst environmental record of any modern president – and this at a time when relevant scientific data have never been more abundant. In political terms, our environment is in crisis. The Land of Flickering Lights, Restoring America in an age of Broken Politics, Michael Bennet

If Republicans had not blocked renewable energy and conservation efforts at every opportunity, the US would not still be tethered to a fossil fuel marketplace where the prices are outside of our control and set by countries hostile to us. Fred Giuffrida Tweet.

The US has a growing problem w/ climate change. The frequency and severity of climate extremes and disasters will continue to go up, and that while preparedness and adaptation can help, it won't be enough until we stop climate change. https://t.co/5AoIAlbnwR pic.twitter.com/3zBAYifVRk

— Jonathan Overpeck (@GreatLakesPeck) September 23, 2023

One irony about climate change is that some states hit worst — Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi — have climate-denying leaders. But when a hurricane hits they’re at the trough demanding FEMA support. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market By Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

“When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.” ~ Cree prophecy

If we do not accept that we are part of nature, we cannot govern and we cannot live. (p96) Timothy Snyder's book Our Malady

Take the Pledge: Don´t vote for any Republicans until they acknowledge the danger of climate change and take action to mitigate it.

Atlanta shooting part of alarming US crackdown on environmental defenders (2/2/2023)

Exxon’s predictions about the climate crisis may have increased its legal peril (1/20/2023)

Climate crisis: UN finds 'no credible pathway to 1.5C in place' (10/27/2022)

It's Time to Call It What It Is—A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis (9/16/2022)

powerful interests seem determined to trigger the collapse of life on Earth. Why? (7/6/2022)

The Supreme Court’s EPA decision heralds a broad assault on democracy (7/1/2022)

Indeed Peter. Beltway media pundits eat your heart out:https://t.co/JWceNxy20X https://t.co/w6DSaku4MM pic.twitter.com/U01ScjgVjo

— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) November 13, 2022

The Supreme Court just took away an EPA tool to fight climate change — what happens next? (6/30/2022)

We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist (6/1/2022)

The climate crisis and evil of others (3/4/2022)

Extremes of 40C above normal: what’s causing ‘extraordinary’ heating in polar regions? (3/21/2022) Guardian

IPCC: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

‘A death sentence’: Indigenous climate activists denounce Cop26 deal (11/16/2021) Guardian

Cop26: world on track for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report (11/8/2021) Guardian

Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier: how its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islands (12/22/2021)

The climate disaster is here (10/14/2021) The Guardian

Why does Mickey Mouse want to destroy civilization? (9/2/2021) Paul Krugman-NYT

The planet is in peril. We’re building Congress’s strongest-ever climate bill: Bernie Sanders (8/18/2021)

A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us. (8/9/2021)

June 2021 Global Temperature Update by James Hansen and Makiko Sato (7/13/2021)

Despite Pandemic Shutdowns, CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years (4/8/2021)

How many of those "co-morbidities" are in themselves markers of inequitable access to clean air, healthcare, safe working conditions, safe housing, access to safe places for physical activities, and a life free of the health impacts of racism?

— Dr. Elizabeth Sawin (@bethsawin) January 8, 2022

Major US media doesn't discuss climate change much. It was not discussed in the 2016 Presidential debates where important issues tended to be left out. Trump made the US the only country not to sign on to the Paris Climate Agreement.

The Trump administration suppressed discussion of climate change by wiping it from web sites, and gagging hold-over scientists who actually know something about it. Consistent with Republican tradition the Trump administration denied the science. Like other right wing governments, Trump tended to replace talented people with loyalists. There were consequences.

If you leave your automobile in the hot sun, you are not surprised when it gets very hot inside. Expect the same effect for the planet. As Antartic glaciers break away, there is sure to be sea level rise that will flood islands, low-lying areas, and coastal cities.

The physics are simple. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. The more that is added to the atmosphere, the warmer it gets. The maximum safe level was estimated at 350 parts per million, but we are now well over 400 ppm and climbing fast. But CO2 is not the only pollutant. Methane is even more powerful and as Arctic permafrost melts, it can be massively released. CO2 persists for centuries, so it is cumulative. Methane disburses more quickly.

Observe the melting Arctic ice, melting glaciers (causing drought), ocean acidification, collapsing fisheries, raging forest fires, potent hurricanes, falling groundwater, expanding deserts, species extinction, rising sea levels and resulting, increasing migration.

Deep geologic history tells us that as CO2 increases, melting ice raises sea level. Coastal cities, world-wide, will be flooded. Many poor countries are not far above sea level, so there will be mass migration.

As mass migration increases, politics will move to the right, democracy collapses, this is accompanied by tribalism, violence, and war.

Republicans want to continue business as usual, paid by the fossil fuel industry, so they are in denial. The kids will pay the price. They will live on a hostile planet.

Guardian Columnist, George Monbiot's final word on COP26: "This pathetic, limp rag of a document"@GeorgeMonbiot @COP26_Coalition @GretaThunberg pic.twitter.com/sv4Kht1NZe

— COP26.tv (@COP26_tv) November 13, 2021

Atlantic Ocean circulation is the weakest in at least 1,600 years, study finds – here's what that means for the climate (2/26/2021)

“Never before in the History of Civilization have we had such Warming:” 2020 saw $210 billion in Natural Disasters (1/10/2021)

Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report (12/4/2020)

White House To Tap NOAA Chief Scientist Who Downplays Climate Change (9/22/2020)

Greenland Succumbs (8/19/2020)

A War Against Climate Science, Waged by Washington’s Rank and File (6/15/2020)

Thousands Join Greta Thunberg in Letter Telling Global Leaders It's Time to #FaceTheClimateEmergency​ (7/16/2020)

Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate (5/21/2020)

How bad is climate change now? (4/18/2020) NYT

Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming (4/15/2020)

Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner (4/15/2020)

U.S. Public Views on Climate and Energy (11/25/2019)

Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government (1/17/2020)

The Party That Ruined the Planet, Republican climate denial is even scarier than Trumpism. (12/12/2019)

Today there are currently 897 active wildfires burning in Canada. This year the combined area burned would be larger than the state of Oklahoma. 🔥🌎 pic.twitter.com/rTlCSKL45u

— Doomer Girl News🐀 (@SaraHor76174949) September 28, 2023

Who Controls Trump’s Environmental Policy? (01/14/2020)

World’s Oceans Are Losing Oxygen Rapidly, Study Finds (12/8/2019)

How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong (11/8/2019)

Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows (10/29/2019)

Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think (10/23/2019)

There’s Only One Antidote for Climate Despair—Climate Revolt (9/9/2019)

Climate Protesters and World Leaders: Same Planet, Different Worlds (9/21/2019)

Only a Green New Deal Can Douse the Fires of Eco-Fascism (9/16/2019)

No One Threatens the Environment Like Donald Trump (9/1/2019)

Until Emissions Drop, Nothing Has Been Accomplished: The Climate Resistance Handbook Is Here. (7/19/2019)

On global warming, we have 12 years left until the point of no return (10/2018)

New poll shows majority of Americans (56%) see climate change as an "emergency".
Broken down by party, it's:
Democrats: 84%
Republicans: 18%
I guess that means Republicanism is an emergency.

— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) August 29, 2019

Yes: #ClimateChange is responsible for the increasingly destructive hurricanes we've witnessed in recent years.

Past claims to the contrary have now been debunked.

By @AGrinsted et al via @PNASNews: https://t.co/fx5eJdlD7j

— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) November 11, 2019

Trump’s backing away from the 2015 Paris Agreement made manifest a ‘new climatic regime’ in which the rich and privileged don’t believe in a ‘common world’. This explains why Trump and his allies are so concerned with borders because they want to save as much of the productive Earth for themselves. from a review of DOWN TO EARTH: Politics in the New Climatic Regime

The Trump Administration’s astounding recent efforts to accelerate fossil fuel use are pressing the world rapidly toward the climate precipice. The Administration blatantly misrepresents the facts about climate change and specifically the U.S. contribution to climate change. We must expose the facts rigorously so that the courts can protect the rights and future of young people. James Hansen: Nutshell Climate Report

"Researchers found that in parts of the ocean, little life remains but green slime. Some remote tropical forests are nearly silent as insects have vanished, and grasslands are increasingly becoming deserts." https://t.co/AGypMDV6xQ

— Extinction Symbol (@extinctsymbol) June 26, 2019

The World Can Make More Water From the Sea, but at What Cost? (10/22/2019)

Major Climate Change Rules the Trump Administration Is Reversing (8/29/2019)

Burning Down the House: Alan Weisman NYRB (8/15/2019)

Water Crises Loom for a Quarter of Humanity (8/5/2019)

The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security (7/30/2019)

UN Report Warns 1 Million Species at Risk of Extinction in Coming Decades (6/26/2019)

Agriculture Department buries studies showing dangers of climate change (6/23/2019)

New Report Warns Planet May Be Warming Twice as Fast as Expected (5/29/2019)

Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science (5/27/2019)

‘Revolutionary change’ needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis (5/6/2019)

Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’, Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’ (5/4/2019)

New EPA document tells communities to brace for climate change impacts (4/28/2019)

It is time the world unites around an International Green New Deal – The Guardian (4/22/2019)

a better Green New Deal — An economist’s take (3/25/2019)

The best zingers from Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Nobel Peace Prize nominee (3/14/2019)

#UniteBehindScience #FruitPickersUnite #ClimateEmergency #Pacific #ClimateWarriors https://t.co/nXohW8ElFR

— Mele Mauala (@MeleMauala) August 17, 2019

Climate Change Is Cutting Into the Global Fish Catch, and It's on Pace to Get Worse (3/1/2019)

Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization? (2/2019)

A Green New Deal is fiscally responsible. Climate inaction is not (2/25/2019)

The world is running out of insects — because of us — and it will lead to a “catastrophic collapse” (2/12/2019)

Young Plaintiffs Move to Block US Fossil Fuel Exploration (2/10/2019)

Hope for a Green New Year (12/31/2018)

Green New Deal Has Overwhelming Bipartisan Support, Poll Finds. At Least, For Now. (12/17/2018)

How the Right missed the Real Globalist Conspiracy, of Big Oil to Heat the Planet (12/17/2018)

Fourth National Climate Assessment (11/2018)

The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial (11/26/2018)

Trump on own administration's climate report: 'I don't believe it' (11/26/2018)

97% of climate scientists agree climate change is real (10/26/2018)

How to Demand Action on Climate Change (10/18/2018)

We’re almost out of time: The alarming IPCC climate report and what to do next (10/16/2018)

Donald and the Deadly Deniers (10/15/2018)

On global warming, we have 12 years left until the point of no return (10/9/2018)

UN Experts Warn of 'Climate Catastrophe' by 2040 Without 'Rapid' and 'Unprecedented' Global Action (10/08/2018)

Thirty Years Ago We could have saved the planet (8/1/2018)

An Extreme Climate Forces Extreme Measures as Worst-Case Predictions Are Realized (5/21/2018)

143 Million People Could Soon Be Displaced Because of Climate Change, World Bank Says (3/20/2018)

Scott Pruitt’s Civilization-Threatening Lie (4/9/2018)

Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns (3/19/2018)

Here's What the EPA's Website Looks Like After a Year of Climate Change Censorship (3/1/2018)

Climate Disruption Dispatches, With Dahr Jamail

Children’s Climate Lawsuit Heads to Trial: Court Rejects Trump Attempt to Block It (3/7/2018)

France to Trump: ‘No Paris Agreement, no trade agreement’ (2/2/2018)

Stephen Hawking to Climate Deniers: Take a Trip to Venus (1/14/2018)

Climate Web Pages Erased and Obscured under Trump (1/10/2018)

The SYR (synthesis report) confirms that human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed across all continents and oceans. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The IPCC is now 95 percent certain that humans are the main cause of current global warming. In addition, the SYR finds that the more human activities disrupt the climate, the greater the risks of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems, and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system. The SYR highlights that we have the means to limit climate change and its risks, with many solutions that allow for continued economic and human development. However, stabilizing temperature increase to below 2°C relative to pre-industrial levels will require an urgent and fundamental departure from business as usual. Moreover, the longer we wait to take action, the more it will cost and the greater the technological, economic, social and institutional challenges we will face Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report Note: Updated 2018, report here.

This is not climate change
This is Brazil deliberately burning down one of our last defences against devastating #climate change and it will impact every living thing on Earth
World could stop Brazil doing this but refuses to do anything but watch it burn https://t.co/kgUac8Gk0F pic.twitter.com/vlsgwRqXjD

— GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) October 9, 2021

...the costs of climate change, if not addressed, will be equivalent to losing 5 percent (and potentially as much as 20 percent) of the global gross domestic product (GDP) each year, now and forever." Hundreds of millions of people could be threatened with hunger, water shortages, and severe economic deprivation. "Climate change is the greatest example of market failure we have ever seen." from the Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change. (updated 8/2011 in Technology Review Magazine).

With population in hazardous regions growing and temperatures around the world rising, the impacts of natural disasters are greater than ever before. The Big Ones

Climate-Change Summary and Update

Pruitt’s War on the Planet and the EPA—and What Congress Can Do About It (12/5/2017)

More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue 'warning to humanity' (11/14/2017)

The U.S. is now the only country not part of Paris climate agreement after Syria signs on (11/7/2017)

As many as 22 million people—double the populations of New York City and Chicago combined—could be displaced by global warming this year.

When we say that climate change is an emergency, this is what @AOC, @RepBlumenauer and I are talking about. https://t.co/IQW00xHTIP

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) September 16, 2019

Irma Won’t “Wake Up” Climate Change-Denying Republicans. Their Whole Ideology Is on the Line. (9/11/2017)

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas(10/18/2017)

Hidden Costs of Climate Change Running Hundreds of Billions a Year (9/27/2017)

The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change (8/20/2017)

Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report (8/7/2017)

Al Gore: 'The Rich Have Subverted All Reason' (7/30/2017)

The Uninhabitable Earth: Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. By David Wallace-Wells

How climate skepticism turned into something more dangerous (7/7/2017)

The Paris Catastrophe (6/3/2017)

The National Association of Manufacturers joined the government in opposing 21 kids who were suing for climate action. (5/24/2017)

How the Dutch confront the rise of the oceans (5/21/2017)

A Running List of How Trump Is Changing the Environment (4/3/2017)

As Millions March for Climate, Stab in Back by EPA & NYT (4/30/2017)

Children's Climate Lawsuit Aims to Unearth Documents From Oil Group API (3/1/2017)

New EPA head Scott Pruitt's emails reveal close ties with fossil fuel interests (2/22/2017)

Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts (1/23/2017)

Failing phytoplankton, failing oxygen: Global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth (12/1/2015)

A human population approaching 7 billion can be maintained only by desolating the Earth. If wild habitat is given over to human cultivation and habitation, if rainforests can be turned into green deserts, if genetic engineering enables ever-higher yields to be extorted from the thinning soils—then humans will have created for themselves a new geological era, the Eremozoic, the Era of Solitude, in which little remains on the Earth but themselves and the prosthetic environment that keeps them alive. ~ John Gray

You want to hear about real manipulation? Media Matters reports that for the past four years, not once was a scientist on a Sunday morning news show to talk climate change. Those discussions were dominated by politicians or a media people. Sauce for the goose: Media Matters found that every politician interviewed was a Republican. And since I’m at it, please, don’t bother with false equivalencies. By the way, Lamar Smith (R-Tex) is a climate change denier. And he’s taking over the Congressional House Science Committee. Phil Plait

"...as recently as 2006, only one third of Americans actually believed climate change was real and caused by human activity, and even now, it’s not uncommon to hear people on TV or radio denouncing climate change. In Europe, climate change denial is seen as the preserve of the crackpot, and few political figures or members of the news media would dream of mentioning it, as doing so often receives the same contempt from the European public as denying the holocaust." Imogen Reed

Republicans in Congress objected to the C.I.A.'s creation of a climate change center and tried to deny money for it. The American weather satellite program is losing capability because of years of underfunding and mismanagement, imperiiing the ability to predict and monitor major storms." John Broder NYT (11/9/2012)

"it’s probably too late to stop the frying of the planet unless we bring the industrial economy crashing to a very abrupt halt. Even conservative mainstream scientists admit that only complete collapse of the global industrial economy will save us from runaway greenhouse . Naturally, their paper was rejected by several journals — even the scientific community can’t handle this particular truth — before it was published last month in Climatic Change. We do not know how quickly we’ll need to terminate the industrial economy to save our species. If we did, we could spend that entire span arguing about the morality of bringing down the industrial machine of death. Since we don’t, we need to act as if the matter is urgent, which, as it turns out, nicely matches the data on the topic . Guy McPherson"

"... we are in the process of destroying a great many things which are real for the sake of something that exists chiefly in our imagination: money." Decline of the Empire: Clueless Man.

The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, “Western civilisation” or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation. — John Gray, STRAW DOGS

"unchecked climate change equals the world depicted by Mad Max, only hotter, with no beaches, and perhaps with even more chaos.” The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change (2007)

At the forefront of the defense of nature are those often called “primitive”: members of indigenous and tribal groups, like the First Nations in Canada or the Aborigines in Australia - the remnants of peoples who have survived the imperial onslaught. At the forefront of the assault on nature are those who call themselves the most advanced and civilized: the richest and most powerful nations. Noam Chomsky

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars: Arthur C. Clarke

...the distaste for accepting the horrors of climate change, denial, stupidity, fecklessness, whatever you want to call it, has spawned a lively industry in climate change denial that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the oil, gas, and coal industries and a political sub-culture in its own right, aimed at defeating any policy consensus that would reduce the use (and sale ) of oil, gas and coal. Climate denial also happens to work nicely for that big chunk of the public at large that does not want to entertain any comprehensive change in the way we currently do things. And so the debate about what to do about climate change decays into inconherence as the deniers deliberiately distort the facts while the science-minded are buffaloed by such mendacity and frustrated by a public that isn't interested in the facts. James Howard Kunstler: Too Much Magic pg199.

If the Kyoto Protocol is the best that the evolutionary process can provide as an example of the survival of the fittest, the very clear deduction is that we're not fit to survive, and we're not going to. We have so lost our way. Aubrey Meyer

Howard Lee's Alarming new study makes today’s climate change more comparable to Earth’s worst mass extinction attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Earth has a fever, but the heat is sloshing into the oceans by John Abraham garnered the second highest number of comments. Dana's IPCC report warns of future climate change risks, but is spun by contrarians was the third most commented upon. Read more...
(4/7/2014)

Long term Weather Forecast

Guy McPherson's website,Nature Bats Last, should be your first stop for a long term weather forecast. Dr. Malcolm Light calls it an "Extreme National Emergency".

Note: some of the following scenarios from "The Extreme Future": James Canton, Ph.d.

Human population increase is putting pressure on the earth's environment. Malthus wasn't wrong, just early. People are failing to recognise limits to growth.

Expect continued and accelerating warming. Check out some of the evidence for Global Warming, or the Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The CO2 safe upper limit is estimated at 350 ppm, but has actually risen to over 400 and is increasing rapidly. It persists for centuries, and UN scientists warn time is running out to tackle global warming.

Arctic ice will certainly melt, open water will appear near the North Pole, sea levels will rise flooding many coastal cities and low-lying lands, glaciers will disappear reducing the natural supply of fresh water. Serious droughts will shrink crop yields and will be disastrous for many. Desertification will accelerate. Lakes will shrink. Dust Bowls expand. Species will go extinct.

Sea levels will rise forcing migration from areas near water level. The migration is already beginning. Insects will proliferate in northern climates bringing more disease. Many low coastal areas will become uninhabitable forcing many of the world's poorest to migrate to higher ground. Likelyhood of resource wars much higher. Massive immigration from climate impacted areas inevetable. Danger of nuclear war, particularly between India and Pakistan, will grow.

Storm severity will increase as ocean waters warm.

Larger forest fires result from warmer, dryer conditions. A recent 60 Minutes piece reported that no firefighters doubt global warming.

It is well established that Biodiversity has declined. This will be a permanent loss. Many species will need to move to preserve their habitat. Tropical species, insects, and disease will spread north. See Elizabeth Kolbert's Pulitzer-prize winning book: The Sixth Extinction

Pollutants will become more hazardous and more threatening. Disease increase including cancer and environmentally related diseases due to overpopulation, pollution, environmental damage, and climate change.

Peak oil will make fuel, transport, and fertilizer, and food more expensive.

Deforestation will accelerate as demand grows for biofuels. Lack of Farmland will also be exacerbated by urban growth. Food shortages will be extensive.

Over fishing has already caused collapse of ocean ecology. Lakes and streams are too polluted for fishing. Acidification will threaten shellfish. "...Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to researchers from the University of Leicester. A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics, has shown that an increase in the water temperature of the world's oceans of around six degrees Celsius -- which some scientists predict could occur as soon as 2100 -- could stop oxygen production by phytoplankton by disrupting the process of photosynthesis."

Increased financial burden due to natural-resource scarcity will result in more frequent wars.

Population growth will put further pressure on resources. Resource scarcity of food, water, and land will increase poverty and migration. Poverty is a driver of war.

Because there are likely to be considerable non-linearities, climate change may not happen gradually. For example arctic ice melt will cause a change in the albedo, permafrost melt can release large amounts of methane, fresh water runoff from melting Greenland ice can cause a slowing or stopping of the Gulf Stream. So some of these changes could happen rapidly. Arctic ice melt is much faster than computer models predicted.

350 ppm CO2 was estimated the highest safe level, but we are over 400 ppm in 2016. It will probably never be less again. CO2 persists for centuries in the atmosphere.

The unholy alliance of Capitalism and religion are on track to devastate the environment. See the forecast.

Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump (12/13/2016)

Scott Pruitt, Trump’s Industry Pick for the E.P.A. (12/7/2016)

Global Warming Research in Danger as Trump Appoints Climate Skeptic to NASA Team (12/1/2016)

Pope Francis Meets With Scientists, Urges Certain Unnamed Nation (HE MEANS US) Not To Kill Planet (11/29/2016)

Climate change: three tales about extraordinary insanity (11/24/2016)

Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’ (11/23/2016)

From White House to madhouse: climate denial in the era of Donald Trump (11/16/2016)

Federal judge sides with youth plaintiffs in climate lawsuit (11/11/2016)

'Last Chance' to Limit Global Warming to Safe Levels, UN Scientists Warn (11/3/2016)

Young People's Burden (10/4/2016)

Can Humanity Survive the 21st Century ? (9/20/2016)

The Climate Crisis Is Already Here (8/4/2016)

Which Candidate Could Rally the Nation Behind Policies That Would Have Real Impact on the Climate Crisis? May 17, 2016

James Hansen's Dire Warning (3/21/2016 video)

February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' amount (3/14/2016)

15 Children Sue Obama for Lack of Climate Change Action (3/10/2016)

Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050 (2/9/2016)

Act Now, Urges Study, or Planet Faces 10,000+ Years of Climate Doom (2/8/2016)

Why America should lead on climate (1/23/2016)

GOP Failing Grades on Climate (12/21/2015)

James Hanson: Paris Talks a 'Fraud' (12/12/2015)

Paul Krugman: 'If the Planet Is Doomed, It's the Republicans' Fault' (12/4/2015)

Exxon Mobil and the G.O.P.: Fossil Fools (11/5/2015)

Climate Remains a Non-Issue in GOP Primary Season (8/7/2015)

Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning (7/20/2015)

The story of the papal encyclical, as told by the media (6/18/2015)

The G.O.P.'s War on Science Gets Worse (5/6/2015)

Climate summit’s pledges on carbon cuts ‘won’t avert global disaster’ (3/7/2015)

Mourning Our Planet: Climate Scientists Share Their Grieving Process (1/25/2015)

Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty (11/2015)

Scientific model supported by UK Government Taskforce flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040 (6/19/2015)

Only one of the nearly 20 Republicans running for president acknowledges the danger of climate change (6/18/2015)

Scientists connect the dots from identifying to preventing dangerous climate risks (12/23/2014)

Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF (9/29/2014)

What to do When You're running out of time (9/18/2014)

Climate Change is an Extreme National Emergency (9/10/2014)

The Great Clash Between Capitalism and Climate (9/16/2014)

Risky Business (6/2014)

Global warming not slowing - it's speeding up (3/12/2014)

NASA 2014 Climate report: What it means for the weather (2/25/2014)

Vicious Global Warming Feedback Loop Worse Than Feared (2/19/2014)

The Climate Change Scorecard (12/17/2013)

Is Ethical Revitalization the Secret to Avoiding Collapse?(11/19/2013)

5 Terrifying Statements in the Leaked Climate Report(8/20/2013)

61 Reasons This Is the Most Anti-Environment House of Representatives in History ((8/13/2013)

New Research Finds Melting Arctic May Cost Global Economy $60 Trillion (7/24/2013)

A World That We Have to Avoid At All Costs (7/17/2013)

2C climate target is half of what is needed, say scientists (7/5/2013)

Earth Hurtling Toward Temperatures Not Seen in 11,000 Years(3/9/2013)

Secret Funding Helped Build Vast Network Of Climate Denial 'Thinktanks' (2/14/2013)

Congress Must Act To Combat Climate Change (2/20/2013)

Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change - it is far, far, worse (1/26/2013)

Could This Scary Report Get Americans to Care About Climate ? (1/15/2013)

Lamar Smith, Global Warming Skeptic, Set to Chair the House Science Committee (11/27/2012)

Leaked IPCC Report: Recent warming is Man-made, Cloud Feedback is Positive, Inaction is Suicidal (12/16/2012)

Fight Like Hell For Climate Justice: Naomi Klein (12/14/2012)

Is Earth F**cked ? (12/7/2012)

Stand Still For the Apocalypse (11/26/2012)

The CIA has a Climate Change Program and it shouldn't be a secret (11/15/2011)

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns (11/9/2011)

Report of the Defense Science Board (10/2011) A PDF

The Name of the Hurricane is Climate Change (11/6/2012)

Irreversible Warming Will Cause Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years to come (10/2/2012)

The Geography of Nope (9/27/2012)

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math (7/19/2012)

Game Over or Overtime ?

Risk of Global Extinction Within one Human Lifetime

Greenland Melting Breaks Record (8/8/2012)

Top Ten things climate change is making worse right now (7/22/2012)

Earth Reaching An Environmental State Shift: Report (6/6/2012)

Bill McKibbon: The Climate Change Deniers Have Done Their Job Well (6/12/2012)

Game Over For The Climate: James Hanson (5/9/2012)

Connect The Dots Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change (3/27/2012)

Capitalism vs the Climate (11/28/2011)

The Parching of the West (12/04/2011)

To Conservatives, Climate Change Is A Trojan Horse To Abolish Capitalism (11/27/2011)

World is Nearing the Climate Point of No Return, IEA Says (11/9/2011)

Stop The Keystone XL (10/18/2011)

Perfect storm of environmental and economic collapse closer than you think (3/2009)

Scientists identify “safe operating space for humanity” in seminal Nature study (2009)

How the Right Wing's World View Is Torn Apart By Climate Change

How the West Was Lost: The American West in Flames

NOAA: Past Decade Warmest on Record According to Scientists in 48 Countries

Living For The Moment While Devaluing The Future (6/1/2007)

An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security (PDF 10/2003)

Large, consistent majority of Americans believe climate change is happening, want government to act (6/11/2010)

An Illustrated Guide to the Latest Climate Science (2/17/2010)

Climate Change: Four Futures (5/14/2010)

How to Answer the Dumb Things Climate Deniers Say (2/9/2010)

Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars (Video about an hour).

Climate-gate: Beyond the Embarassment

Failed States Index 2009

Film on Climate Refugees Strikes a Chord (8/12/2011)

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

For Humanity it's already too late.

Real Climate

The Science of Climate Change (Guardian)

NASA GISS Data

Scientists warn of a world on the brink (3/14/2009)

Lord Stern on global warming: It's even worse than I thought (3/13/2009) See Note.

State of the Wild (James Hansen)

Coming Ecological Collapse: Failing Ecosystems the Mother of All Bubbles (4/11/2008)

Mother Earth's Triple Whammy

Jared Diamond: Why Societies Collapse (Video From 2003 TED Conference.)

Venus' Runaway Greenhouse Effect A Warning For Earth (11/28/2007)

We have been warned

In 2004, the Pentagon told Bush that Climate Change Will Destroy Us. See this link.

Robert F Kennedy Jr on the Environment and Democracy

The Fires This Time

Air and Climate Files

NASA says ozone layer hole 5th biggest on record (11/5/2008)

Rejoin the world's fight against climate change.

Clearing the Air

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

US refuses to reduce emissions at Bali (12/2007)

From False to Real solutions for climate change. (01/06/2008)

Earth Inc Report

Environmental causes of cancer

Climate Change is a security issue like the cold war.

Millennium Ecosystem Report

Water

The world as a whole is already well into a water crisis. About eighteen countries, home to half the world´s population, are draining their aquifers. In Hebei Province, in the heart of China´s northern grain belt, the average water level in the deep aquifer is dropping nearly three meters a year. Underground water levels are falling so fast in the lowlands of rural India that in some localities drinking water must be trucked in. One official of the International Water Management Institute has said, ¨When the balloon bursts, untold anarchy will be the lot of rural India.¨ In the Middle East, it is becoming clear that hatred and instability are not due so much to religious differences and the memories of historical injustice as they are to overpopulation and the severe shortage of arable land and water. Half Earth, Our Planet's Fight for Life: Edward O. Wilson

Anupam Mishra Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting

Drought is Just the Beginning of Our Water Emergency (7/17/2015)

The water table is dropping all over the world’ – NASA warns we’re on the path to global drought (6/17/2015)

Ocean Temperatures are off the Chart (1/22/2015)

Devolution of the Seas (11/2013)

Global majority faces water shortages 'within two generations' (5/24/2013)

Great Lakes Losing Water, Climate Change a Significant Factor (5/22/2013)

Flow (documentary: about 84 minutes) Watch it on line.

About Drought

Water.org

Water Needs You

Decline in snowpack because of global warming. (02/01/2008)

On Thinner Ice

Stunning loss of Arctic Ice

Arctic Insanity

Fate of the Ocean

Why and How Jellyfish are taking over the World (9/15/2013)

Sea Ice decline

Oceans growing acidity alarms scientists (12/16/2007)

A Looming Oxygen Crisis and Its Impact on World’s Oceans (8/5/2010)

Blue Gold: World Water Wars (Documentary Movie 2009)

About Pfizer's now closed production facility in Groton, CT

Oceana, Our Endangered Oceans and What We can do to save them: Ted Danson and Michael D'Oreo

Extinction

World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns (10/26/2016)

Entering the Sixth Mass Extinction

Geoengineering Will Not Save Ocean Life from Acidification, Research Says (8/5/2015)

The Sixth Extinction

How we killed the ocean (video)

Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction (video)

Climate Change a Bigger Extinction Threat Than Asteroids (2/15/2013)

Report: Climate Change Has Already Brought Catastrophe to US Wildlife (1/30/2012)

We've Entered The Age of Mass Extinction (8/13/2011)

Large Percent of Mammals going extinct

IUCN

Loss of habitat threatens one-third of all primates (10/27/2007)

When Trees Die, People Die (1/22/2013)

20 percent of all vertebrate species on Earth are threatened by extinction

Collapse of Bee Population

China's situation

Truthout's environment page

10 Million Years to Recover From Mass Extinction (5/27/2012)

Earth Charter

See

"Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life." by E.O Wilson

"The Sixth Extinctiion: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert (Pulitzer Prize Winner 2015)

"Dodging Extinction, power, food, money, and the future of life on earth" by Anthony Barnosky, a paleobiologist. (2014)

Fires

Change in Length an Frequency of Fire Seasons 1979-2013

See global warming.

Politicization of Climate Science

Today, GAP is releasing a comprehensive report, Redacting the Science of Climate Change, detailing the findings of a year-long investigation into political interference at federal climate science agencies. The report demonstrates how policies and practices have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information emerging from publicly-funded climate change research. This has negatively affected the media’s ability to report objectively on scientific issues, public officials’ capacity to respond with appropriate policies, and full public understanding of environmental concerns. -- Dylan Blaylock 3/27/07

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Republican War on Science</p>

NRDC The Bush Record on the Environment

Scientific Integrity in Policy Making

How the Bush administration regulates.

Bush Administration interfering with EPA Scientists.

EPA: Enormously Pathetic Agency

The EPA is hastily closing its libraries. !

Censorship of climate Science: The case of Dr James Hanson

US at the bottom of environmental performance for industrialized countries.

Political interference at the EPA (posted 4/28/2008) See the full report.

Bush EPA dilutes environmental justice

Running Black ops on Green Groups (April 2, 2008)

Smearing Al Gore: Here We Go Again

Cheney's role.

Al Gore's Challenge

Bush's Holy War on Nature

See Pollution

Climate Change Deniers

See the Climate Deception Dossiers (a pdf). 7/2015

Merchants of Doubt: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Ads Call Out Clean Air Act Attackers (7/29/2010)

A Rising Tide of Climate Skeptic Disinformation

Climate change skeptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser