Keeping the world below 2°C of warming requires technology that we don’t possess
Despite all of the warnings from the world’s best climate scientists, most of us continue living our lives without a clue as to the violent severity of the unfolding tragedy that is climate change. It...
View ArticleRat infestation spoils donated food supplies from Orlando residents, never...
A government office in Kissimmee that was storing donations destined for Puerto Rico was closed down to a rat infestation according to Bianca Padro Ocasio writing for the Orlando Sentinel. The...
View ArticleWarming Planet Putting Many Culinary Crops in Peril.
"In many crops, such as oilseed rape, premature seed dispersal is one of the major causes of crop loss. In the context of climate change, this could become increasingly severe. This study exposes the...
View ArticleShrinking Mountain Glaciers Are Affecting People Downstream
People living in arid climates near mountains usually rely on glacial melt for their water for part of the year. Though rivers are fed largely by snowmelt, in late summer, a significant part of river...
View ArticleSea ice fell to its lowest level since human civilization began more than...
The world’s sea ice hits a record low for January as the annual melting period expanded according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The 5.04 million square miles of sea ice in the Arctic was...
View Article'Sloppy and careless'-courts call out Trump on environmental rules.
“A cascade of courtroom standoffs are beginning to slow, and even reverse, the EPA rollbacks thanks to the administration’s ‘disregard for the law”. Oliver Milman writing for the Guardian.In 2017, news...
View ArticleThe northernmost permanent weather station in the world, has warmed to 43°F.
Our planetary climate emergency in just a few images. xCape Morris Jesup (#Greenland's northernmost observation station) is now reporting temperatures well above freezing today... +6.1°C at the...
View ArticleMassive Carbon Store discovered in the Congo.
Right dab in the middle of the Congo basin is a low lying swamp called the Cuvette Centrale depession. It is the earth’s second largest tropical wetland, after the Panatanal in Brazil. The Congo basin...
View ArticleHow NASA averted the 2060 apocalypse
Yes. NASA Saved our collective butts back in 1987 when the world’s governments finalized and signed The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer which was based on NASA research....
View ArticleScientists discover previously unknown 'super colony' of penguins in Antarctica
Finally, some good news out of Antarctica for one penguin species threatened by climate change. Biologists have been watching with dread a steady decline of what they thought was a dwindling population...
View ArticleJason Box: Earth’s Ice Is Melting Much Faster Than Forecast. Here’s Why...
Jason Box, my personal hero and famed Greenland climatologist turned glaciologist, penned an editorial titled Earth’s Ice Is Melting Much Faster Than Forecast. Here’s Why That’s Worrying which was...
View ArticleNASA: Far northern permafrost may unleash carbon within decades. Peak...
Breaking news from NASA.Surprisingly this gut wrenching danger of additional greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere from thawing permafrost will not be coming from the permafrost in the...
View ArticleClimate Change Has Brought The Arctic's Spring Forward 16 Days In Just 10...
The Arctic climate is a complex and sensitive eco-system. It is characterized by the absence of sunlight in winter, long days during summer and brutal weather. And there is nowhere else on Earth where...
View ArticleHalf of all plants and animals in 35 of the world's most biodiverse places...
According to comprehensive new paper and report commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund, University of East Anglia (UK), and the James Cook University (Australia) found that climate change threatens...
View ArticleFEMA Strips Mention of ‘Climate Change’ From Its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan
The insanity out of this White House will just not stop. The Trump regime has deleted all references to climate change for FEMA’s strategic plan for 2018-2022. This obviously follows the record...
View ArticleChain reaction of fast-draining lakes poses new risk for Greenland ice sheet
“Not only are we directly altering the climate, but that process in itself is kicking off these things that are gonna actually accelerate the damaging impacts over the rest of the century.” Thomas...
View ArticleLast male white rhino is put down
Incredibly sad news out of Kenya. The last male white rhino has died. Sudan, who was 45 years old, was suffering horribly from a painful degenerative illness when he was euthanized March 19, 2018....
View ArticleBad news for the climate: Coal burning and carbon emissions are on the rise...
“The growth in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2017 is a strong warning for global efforts to combat climate change, and demonstrates that current efforts are insufficient to meet the...
View ArticleTons of food went to waste in Puerto Rico as stores’ pleas to FEMA went...
Politico has a piece on another FEMA screw up that victimized the people of Puerto Rico following the destructive winds of Hurricane Maria. Walmart and other grocery stores had to throw out tons of...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 14.12: Gardening the top of a log.
In September, when hurricane Irma was barreling toward Miami-Dade and Broward counties as the most powerful storm in the Atlantic ever recorded, I decided to flee my home and drive north to escape the...
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