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The mother of all hockey sticks

Image credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Words are not really necessary to accompany this image but, if you want some, feel free to go and read ‘The Last Time CO2 Was This High Humans D… more →

Lack of Environment

Wall Street Journal's Idiocracy: CO2 Is What Plants Crave

digger666 wrote 1 week ago: Reblogged from The Secular Jurist: The Wall Street Journal once again published an op-ed disputing c … more →

Tags: Climate Studies, Conservation, environment & earth studies, media, Politics & World Affairs, Pollution, Print, relationships, Science & Technology

The mother of all hockey sticks — 16 comments

Martin Lack wrote 2 weeks ago: Image credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Words are not really necessary to accompany this i … more →

Tags: Andrew Montford, anthropocene, Climate change, Environment, Intergenerational injustice, James Hansen, Palaeoclimatology, reality, Storms of My Grandchildren

Ruin is the destiny to which all men rush — 26 comments

Martin Lack wrote 1 month ago: As the Bishop of London said at the funeral service for the late Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven today … more →

Tags: Climate change, energy crisis, Environment, fossil fuels, In Memoriam, Intergenerational injustice, renewable energy, Margaret Thatcher

Can technology save us? — 33 comments

Martin Lack wrote 1 month ago: I happened to stumble across a BBC TV Horizon special, entitled ‘Tomorrow’s World’ … more →

Tags: Carbon capture and storage, Climate change, consumerism, Economics 2, energy crisis, Environment, financial crisis, growthmania, hydraulic fracturing

More freezes will melt climate change doubts — 18 comments

Martin Lack wrote 1 month ago: So said Lord (Julian) Hunt, Vice President of GLOBE and a former Director General of the UK’s … more →

Tags: anthropocene, China, Climate change, Environment, Intergenerational injustice, reality, scepticism, Globe, Julian Hunt

climate change and me: revenge of the data — 124 comments

adaminberlinio wrote 1 month ago: a chimp eating snow in Berlin zoo No, I’m still not a climate scientist, don’t worry, bu … more →

Tags: Science, Skepticism, Climate, Thought Experiment, climate change, AGW, CLIMATE SCIENTIST, denialist, Denialism

Weapons of Mass Extinctions

screamin sheman wrote 1 month ago: Evolution via natural selection does not need any space rock to experience ultra large scale extinct … more →

Tags: My Life, Asteriods, Comets, Evolution 2, Life

Panic mode, initiated?

SCBN wrote 1 month ago: From ‘Green Tea and Velociraptors’, Mar 29, 2013 The life and trials of a PhD Palaeontologist … more →

Tags: Feature, macroevolution, Science, #openphd, early career researcher, existential crisis, Palaeoblog, palaeontologist, Palaeontology

Irreversible but not yet unstoppable — 6 comments

Martin Lack wrote 1 month ago: With regard to ongoing climate change, this is currently an important distinction. However, as highl … more →

Tags: anthropocene, belshazzars feast, Climate change, Economics 2, Environment, fossil fuels, Intergenerational injustice, Politics, renewable energy

This is what water scarcity will look like — 22 comments

Martin Lack wrote 1 month ago: With my thanks to 350.org for alerting me to this piece of news: As reported in the Washington Post … more →

Tags: Climate change, Environment, Intergenerational injustice, water, 350.org, Ban Ki-moon, UN, Water Scarcity

The dustbin of failed evolutionary experiments? — 45 comments

Martin Lack wrote 2 months ago: Once again, as I did in my previous post, I must credit xraymike79 as the source of the title for th … more →

Tags: Climate change, consumerism, Denial, Environment, Intergenerational injustice, Philosophy, reality, Religion, Edward Wilson

Domestic abuse on a planetary scale — 14 comments

Martin Lack wrote 2 months ago: The UK Home Office is currently running a hard hitting campaign to highlight the common truth that b … more →

Tags: anthropocene, Climate change, Clive Hamilton, Economics 2, energy crisis, Environment, Limits to Growth, optimum population, Politics

Interdependence for $100

ethicsoftheenivronment wrote 2 months ago: “the melting ice” blog 7: This next blog covers the idea of sustaining biodiversity by a … more →

Tags: Ecosystems, extinction, Biology, sustainability, Unsustainable practices, forest ecosystems, polar bears, Arctic, passenger pigeon

Mass extinctions: deep impact?

tcdontherocks wrote 2 months ago: Contrary to the images most of us hold of mass extinction events, they are in fact are rarely due to … more →

Tags: perspectives

What on Earth are we doing? — 21 comments

Martin Lack wrote 3 months ago: I appear to have a habit of posting items starting with the words “What on Earth..”.  He … more →

Tags: anthropocene, Climate change, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Economics 2, Environment, Intergenerational injustice, ipcc, Limits to Growth

DOOMSDAY PREPPERS

raptureimminent wrote 3 months ago: (Friday Church News Notes, February 15, 2013, http://www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295- … more →

Tags: 1. A Prophecy, 2. A Rapture Bin, 3. Apocalyptic Extremes, 4. Disasters, 6. The Unknown, 7. Society, Anti Christian sentiment, Armageddon, Christian Persecution

Climate sensitivity is now irrelevant — 19 comments

Martin Lack wrote 3 months ago: Thanks to Professor Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez (Transition Times blog), I have been alerted to an … more →

Tags: Environment, Climate change, anthropocene, Arctic, Guy McPherson, Andrew Revkin, gavin schmidt, Nature bats last

A. J. Scudiere Author- RESONANCE

Randy Ford wrote 3 months ago: RESONANCE by A. J. Scudiere In earth’s history there have been five mass extinctions … e … more →

Tags: Books to read, A.J. Scudiere, history of the earth, Magnetic polar reversal, five mass extinctions, Sixth great mass extinction

End ecocide in Europe (and the World) — 14 comments

Martin Lack wrote 3 months ago: I am not sure what good it will do unless the whole World decides to stop self-harming as well but … more →

Tags: anthropocene, belshazzars feast, Climate change, Economics 2, energy crisis, Environment, european union, fossil fuels, hydraulic fracturing


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