Aug 23 2010
I adore Mark Morford, but I never thought I’d be quoting him on this blog. From his recent column in SFGate (emphasis mine): Wouldn’t it be horrible if all this stunning, insanely mounting, irrefutable evidence — death, floods, fires, heat waves, the worst this and the most violent that in 1,000 years — were some [...]
Aug 19 2010
This, from National Geographic (one of the best sources I’ve found for info on changing ocean trends): For centuries, artists from Hokusai to Hopper have used the ocean‘s colors to move people. Now a new study says they have the power to move hurricanes too. What’s more, global warming may already be changing the ocean’s [...]
Jul 20 2010
One of the things that fascinates me about climate change is the concept that humanity evolved in conjunction with everything else, and has developed habits and settlements that should keep them safe from dangerous things. For example, human settlement in Africa often happened at altitudes that did not support malaria-bearing mosquitos, but as things heat [...]
Jul 19 2010
I absolutely adore Nicholas Kristof. I’m still working my way through his book “Half the Sky”, and I read his column almost compulsively. He is a journalist of stature, in a world of mere reporters, and worthy of all the support the rest of us can throw at him. He’s taken on incredibly difficult assignments [...]
Jun 25 2010
HT to the fabulous Patrick Kearney, NASA’s Global Temperature Anomaly map for May 2010. Note… these are anomalies. “compared to average temperatures for the same time of year from 1951 to 1980.” This is not just “man, it’s hot today!” kinds of changes. This is a beautiful (if chilling) view of a planet that is [...]
May 09 2010
Jeremy Jackson knocks it out of the park. I’m gonna have nightmares for a while. How will we respond to this? The thing we really need to fix, is ourselves. It’s about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world different from the selfish world we live [...]
Feb 22 2010
I found this this morning. Talk about gorgeous! And I love the little sailboat at the top. Be sure to read the whole article, it’s really nicely done. And um… I guess it’s time to put Venice on the top of our “to visit before it’s submerged” list.
Jan 26 2010
This just cracks me up: Maximum height of extreme waves up dramatically in Pacific Northwest … Using more sophisticated techniques that account for the “non-stationarity” in the wave height record, researchers say the 100-year wave height could actually exceed 55 feet, with impacts that would dwarf those expected from sea level rise in coming decades. Increased [...]
Dec 19 2009
…in simple terms that mere mortals can understand. Naturally, this is an oversimplification, and you could nitpick each of these things. What’s critical is that you understand, generally, what the numbers in question mean. From the Guardian: Copenhagen climate summit: Five possible scenarios for our future climate With talks in Copenhagen descending into chaos, the [...]
Dec 19 2009
From Bill McKibben and company: Dear Friends, We need you to read this closely, if you would. You’ve always counted on us to tell the truth, and it would be useless to pretend we’re happy with the outcome of the Copenhagen climate talks. You’ll likely hear the Copenhagen drama spun in a thousand different ways, [...]
Dec 17 2009
My heroes are in tears. http://rozsavage.com/2009/12/17/cop15-t-1-weeping-for-the-world/ http://www.350.org/about/blogs/end-day-update http://tcktcktck.org/stories/campaign-stories/open-letter-president-obama I was so hoping for some kind of grand gesture. And I suppose Obama might yet swoop in and deliver. If so, I’ll even forgive him the finance crisis. But so far? It’s looking like business as usual, where the rich and powerful make theater and the [...]
Dec 15 2009
The inestimably brilliant George Monbiot, on Copenhagen: This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must [...]
Dec 13 2009
I can’t imagine what it must be like for Ian Fry to say what he says in front of the world. I wonder if any of our pampered, entitled, mostly-useless elected officials (I will not call them leaders) are listening? I wonder if our “change” president will actually do something, instead of simply mouthing platitudes [...]
Oct 29 2009
Sometimes, the scientific method’s reductionist thinking makes my head ache. Check this out: North Carolina sea levels rising 3 times faster than in previous 500 years, Penn study says An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found 20th-century [...]
Oct 22 2009
This just in from the fine folks at 350.org: Dear friends, For 20 years the world has managed to do very little about the greatest problem it’s ever faced. In three days time, you can help change that–and if you step up you’re going to have a lot of company! It looks like the International [...]
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