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Water in the Anthropocene
Irish writer James Joyce’s gibberish masterpiece Finnegans Wake is a tale of the night. It begins with an allusion to the global water cycle. The tale is told as a stream of consciousness that takes t… more →
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Water in the Anthropocene
wrote 3 hours ago: Irish writer James Joyce’s gibberish masterpiece Finnegans Wake is a tale of the night. It begins wi … more →
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes 1979-2012
wrote 3 weeks ago: Another remarkable visualization from Andy Lee Robinson … more →
Rethinking sustainable development in the Anthropocene
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wrote 1 month ago: “The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that cre … more →
Call for Paper: Interdisciplinary Conference of Young Earth System Scientists, 2013
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wrote 2 months ago: Interdisciplinary Conference of Young Earth System Scientists 2013: Understanding and Interpreting U … more →
Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping points?
wrote 2 months ago: Lots of interesting papers in the last days – one paper that caught my attention is an opinion … more →
A world model for ecology?
wrote 4 months ago: This week’s edition of Nature featured a comment by Drew Purves and colleagues titled “Ecosystems: T … more →
NASA releases stunning new "Black Marble"
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wrote 5 months ago: On Wednesday 5 December 2012, NASA released a composite image of the Earth at Night – the … more →
The Fraud of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Part 4: Heat Flow
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wrote 6 months ago: As we have discussed, climate scientists artificially invent an atmospheric greenhouse effect by th … more →
Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests
wrote 8 months ago: There has been considerable controversy in recent years about the question of earth system tipping p … more →
What does my research have to do with climate change?
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wrote 10 months ago: It’s Wednesday 20th April 2011 and I’m putting the finishing touches to a paper based upon data I co … more →
"State of the planet" film opens Rio summit
wrote 11 months ago: On the eve of Rio+20 – the UN’s largest summit to date – I got a call from the UN … more →
Rio+20: Salvation is here
wrote 1 year ago: Will Sustainable Development Goals save Rio+20? Maybe. But everyone must buy into them. Salvation fo … more →
First "State of the Planet" declaration published
wrote 1 year ago: On 29 March, 2012, the Planet Under Pressure conference published the first State of the Planet decl … more →
Good news for glaziers in Belfast
wrote 1 year ago: We need more James Hansens Growing up outside Belfast in the eighties, daily news bulletins brought … more →
Global temperature 1880 to 2011
wrote 1 year ago: Recently, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies released a time series of global temperat … more →
Is civilization really at risk of collapse?
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wrote 1 year ago: “In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take drama … more →
Earth operating in "no analogue" state, say scientists, again
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wrote 1 year ago: In 2001, over 1000 experts issued the Amsterdam Declaration on Global Change. The declaration gave a … more →
Mapping 2011's natural catastrophes
wrote 1 year ago: In 2011, Newsweek published an environmental ranking of the world’s largest companies. Insura … more →
The Great Acceleration
wrote 1 year ago: The Great Acceleration. Click to enlarge. Image: Felix Pharand from Global Change and the Earth Syst … more →
