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Kiss the Amazon Goodbye?
As devastating as Trump was for the environment, President Jair Bolsonaro has one-upped Trump. He’s single-handedly destroying the world’s largest rainforest. It may be the single most important ecosystem for the survival of Homo sapiens.
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Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
The short answer: No, not even close!
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Will Egypt Drain the World’s Second Largest Wetlands?
Sudd is Africa’s largest freshwater wetland at roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan. It’s under threat by a megaproject named Jonglei Canal that has the potential to devastate this ecological gem.
Read More Chomsky & the United Nations Warn of Collapse
It’s entirely possible that doomsayers of the world, though widely ridiculed, could be on target about the prospects for global societal collapse. But, of course, when? According to a recent Noam Chomsky interview, it’s an ongoing grind that will end with a thud.
Read More Buckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling
The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street.
Read More India – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die
Death by humid heat in India equates to the tolling of bells, slowly, repeatedly, as black pennants flutter along the distant horizon. Another one has died and another, and one more, and another and another, as the monotonous tolling becomes an atrocious irritation.
Read More The Biomass Peril
By all appearances, woody biomass is an unstoppable behemoth initiated by the EU, which is now scrambling, as it tries to undo a monster of its own creation.
Read More Japan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests
The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting in the spring of 2023, is facing increasing pressure to back off, especially in light of the facts that not only is it illegal but also morally reprehensible as well as a despicable disregard for the lifeblood of the ocean.
Read More The Collapse of Industrial Farming
The most upending event of the past 10,000 years is the advent of engineered food as fermentation farms displace factory farms. “We are on the Cusp of the Fastest, Deepest, Most Consequential Disruption of Agriculture in History.”
Read More Scientists Hit the Streets
A revolutionary slogan by climate scientists “1.5C is Dead – Climate Revolution Now!” emblazoned the streets of the world on April 6th spawned by the Sixth Assessment Report, Mitigation of Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released April 4th.
Read More The Truth About IPCC Reports
At the center of the issue, the IPCC does not expose the full extent of existential risk, which happens to be such an unthinkable event so hard to accept that nobody believes it will ever really truly happen.
Read More Liberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill
The pathologization of dissent is not going away. It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows. Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy will soon be only too ready to snuff it out.
Read More Antarctica on Edge
East Antarctica, often times referred to as “the final frontier of global warming,” is making headlines once again.
Read More Methane Acceleration Sets Record
That current level of 1,900 ppb of atmoshperic methane is triple the pre-industrial level of 700 ppb. Furthermore, it is suddenly mysteriously accelerating over just the past 13 years. In turn, this exceptional acceleration could hasten global warming considerably. Of even more concern, the acceleration appears to be regenerating on its own accord sans human influence.
Read More Dangerously Awash in Chemicals
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
Read More Ocean Heat Killing Spree
An open question remains when and how the world’s governments will unify to stabilize or lower greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a difference, assuming it’s even possible, for marine life to continue, well, actually for all life to continue.
Read More Dangerous Heat Across the Globe
The planet is heating up like never before, as “ground temperatures” hit all-time records in the Northern Hemisphere as well as the Southern Hemisphere, and ocean temperatures threaten the world’s major fisheries of the Far North, which are imperiled beyond any known historical precedent.
Read More The Oceans Are Overheating
The world’s oceans in 2021 witnessed the hottest temperatures in recorded history.
Read More When to Build Sea Walls
During the month of December 2021, two warnings of impending sea level rise were issued by highly respected groups of climate scientists. These are professional scientists who do not deal in hyperbole. Rather, they are archetypical conservative serious-minded scientists who follow the facts.
Read More Book Review: ‘Bright Green Lies’ Torpedoes Greens
The authors of ‘Bright Green Lies’ write: “Today’s environmental movement stands upon the shoulders of giants, but something has gone terribly wrong… Mainstream environmentalists now overwhelmingly prioritize saving industrial civilization over saving life on the planet.”
Read More Warnings from the Far North
Forces profound and alarming are reshaping the upper reaches of the North Pacific and Arctic oceans, breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures and one of the world’s most important fisheries.
Read More What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?
The Thwaites “Doomsday Glacier” in West Antarctica is spooking scientists. Satellite images shown at a recent meeting December 13th of the American Geophysical Union showed numerous large, diagonal cracks extending across the Thwaites’ floating ice wedge.
Read More Burned-out Forests Are Not Re-Growing
Forests are our last, best natural defense against global warming. Without the world’s trees at peak physical condition, the rest of us don’t stand a chance.
Read More The Dreaded Rainforest Shift
Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications.
Read More The Woody Biomass Blunder
One of the most controversial fixes for global warming is the use of woody biomass, cutting trees, burning trees to achieve “carbon neutral” status in the worldwide battle to conquer climate change/global warming. It is a prime example of human insanity maddeningly at work destroying the planet.
Read More Mother Nature, Inc.
Mother Nature, Inc., will lead to extinction of The Commons, as an institution, in the biggest heist of all time. Surely, private ownership of nature is unseemly and certainly begs a much bigger relevant question that goes to the heart of the matter, to wit: Should nature’s ecosystems, which benefit society at large, be monetized for the direct benefit of the few?
Read More Code Red on FacingFuture.TV
FacingFuture.TV recently hosted a preview of the upcoming IPCC 2021 UN climate report, which report guides the gathering of dignitaries from around the world meeting in Glasgow this November to discuss, analyze, and decide how to deal with global warming/climate change.
Read More Siberia’s Hot Streak
Global warming in Siberia is on a hot streak! It was +6°C last year. In like manner, if the entire planet hit +6°C above pre-industrial, it would be lights out, life snuffed out, sayonara.
Read More Drought Clobbers the World
The list of drought conditions hitting every continent, except Antarctica, is overwhelming. Indeed, the worldwide drought should be categorized as a triple-extra-alarm emergency with all hands on deck. Will it be?
Read More Apocalypse
The apocalypse has been predicted a number of times for over two thousand years, but every prediction of “End Times” has failed. Yet, a case can be made that it’s never been closer to reality because it’s already happening here and there.
Read More Toxic Chemicals Engulf the Planet
Worldwide chemical emissions are six times global warming emissions. This hidden dilemma is fully exposed in a superbly researched new book by science writer Julian Cribb: Earth Detox, How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet.
Read More If Fukushima’s Water is Safe, Then Drink it!
By now, the world knows all about the decision by Japan to dump tritium-laced radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. According to Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, the treated and diluted water will be “safe to drink.”
Read More The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to its Billing
We’ve witnessed an astonishing ice mass loss rate of 500% more than the last decade of the previous century. Throughout human history, this has never happened with such far-reaching extent so rapidly.
Read More Direct Air Capture and Big Oil
There’s something cagey going on with the world’s biggest corporations, over-weighted by oil producers, now feigning green.
Read More Approaching a Risky 1.5°C Global Overshoot
A recent UN Assessment, as of February 26th 2021, regarding progress or lack thereof by the 195 nations to the Paris 2015 climate agreement is starting to look like a big bust.
Read More Ecocide!
Human destruction of “large areas” of the Earth has grown so conspicuously large, so threatening to all species, including human existence, that a group of international legal experts is working to submit a draft of a new law “Ecocide” to the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) at The Hague.
Read More The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
Our climate models could be missing something big.
Read More 2020 Ties 2016 as Earth’s Hottest Year on Record, Even Without El Niño to Supercharge It
The last six years were the six hottest recorded on the planet, and 2020 closed the warmest decade on record.
Read More An Exhausted Planet Limps Into 2021
The Alliance of World Scientists (13,700 strong) delivered a biting report, not mincing words: “Scientists now find that catastrophic climate change could render a significant portion of the Earth uninhabitable consequent to continued high emissions, self-reinforcing climate feedback loops and looming tipping points.”
Read More Menacing Methane – An Analysis
The Arctic’s most prolific scientist, Peter Waldhams, tells us that “the story of methane really is a story of a very serious definitive threat to our future existence on this planet.”
Read More A Troubling Discovery in the Arctic
A notable satellite-telephonic call to colleagues in late October from Swedish scientist Örjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University briefly described a haunting discovery: “This East Siberian slope methane hydrate system has been perturbed and the process will be ongoing.”
Read More Dumping Fukushima’s Water into the Ocean… Seriously?
A perverse endlessness overhangs Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima Daiichi (2011), earmarking these nuclear power meltdowns as the worst industrial accidents in human history. Yet, with 440 operating nuclear plants worldwide, and 50 new plants under construction, there are plans to build a few hundred more.
Read More Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing
Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact, substantially!
Read More The Great Unravelling: ‘I Never Thought I’d Live to See the Horror of Planetary Collapse’
We are the generation that is likely to witness the destruction of our Earth.
Read More Kiss the Amazon Rainforest Goodbye
Right before the eyes of the world, the most legendary rainforest on the planet is going up in smoke.
Read More Greenland Succumbs
Greenland’s ice is melting at an accelerating rate, which has alarming implications for human society as we know it.
Read More Freakish Arctic Fires Alarmingly Intensify
NASA satellite images of fires in eastern Siberia depict an inferno of monstrous proportions, nothing in modern history compares. And, as of July, it’s intensifying. Should people be concerned? Answer: Yes, and double yes.
Read More The World on Fire
Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wildfires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planet’s largest ecosystems are going up in smoke.
Read More ‘Ground-Breaking’ Documentary Links Amazon Fires And Deforestation To Animal Agriculture
Moby, who executively produced the film, says it’s a ‘must-watch for anyone who is passionate about combating corruption’
Read More Thawing Arctic Permafrost
It’s no surprise that first prize for exceeding 2°C above baseline goes to the Arctic with permafrost that covers 25% of the Northern Hemisphere.
Read More Methane Emissions Have Jumped a Staggering Nine Percent Since Last Decade
Emissions of methane – a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide – have risen by nine percent in a decade driven by humanity’s insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday.
Read More The Sky Is Falling – Yes – No
The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society.
Read More The Climate Inertia Bugaboo
A new study reveals details about climate change inertia, a sobering study that speaks to the absolute necessity of herculean efforts to stop emissions, full stop, now, not tomorrow
Read More Arctic Hits Hottest Temperature on Record at 100.4 Degrees Fahrenheit
“100°F about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle today in Siberia. That’s a first in all of recorded history. We are in a climate emergency.”
Read More Amazon Rainforest Hit By Killer Droughts
Over the past 20 years, like clockwork, severe droughts have hit the Amazon every five years with regularity 2005, 2010, 2015. Of course, droughts have hit the Amazon rainforest throughout paleoclimate history, but this time it’s different. The frequency and severity is off the charts.
Read More Climate Models for Upcoming UN Report Show ‘Incredibly Alarming’ Risk of Runaway Warming
The climate community and the general public are in for some “incredibly alarming” worst-case scenarios as modelling for the United Nations’ next major climate risk assessment takes shape.
Read More Warmest May on Record, Siberia 10C Hotter
Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia, home to much of Earth’s permafrost, as the world experienced its warmest May on record, the European Union’s climate monitoring network said Friday.
Read More Contact with the Sacred
Published by KarmaTube With spectacular visual images, this film reminds us of the necessity of...
Read More 10C Above Baseline
Earth at 10°C above pre-industrial is unimaginable. It’s a deadly horrifying thought, but as shall be explained herein, it should not be dismissed out of hand.
Read More The Wet-Bulb Peril Has Arrived… Way Too Early
The human body has limits. If “temperature plus humidity” is high enough, even a healthy person seated in the shade with plentiful water to drink will suffer severely or likely die. It’s the Wet-Bulb Temperature (TW) effect.
Read More Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher
New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned this development, which is not yet incorporated into climate models, could put the temperature goals set by the Paris Agreement out of reach.
Read More Microplastics Found in Antarctic Sea Ice Samples for First Time, Scientists Say
For the first time, microscopic plastic pollution has been found in Antarctic sea ice samples collected more than a decade ago, suggesting that microplastic concentrations in Southern Sea ice may be higher than previously believed.
Read More 10 Things We’ve Learned a Decade After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
We know a lot more now about the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico and the risks of deep-water drilling, but that doesn’t mean we’re any safer.
Read More Abrupt Ecosystem Collapse
Abrupt ecosystem collapse is similar to coronavirus in some aspects but dreadfully different and much more sinister in many others.
Read More Global Lockdowns Might Reduce CO2 Emissions but Won’t Halt Climate Crisis, Scientists Say
There’s a difference between CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentrations of CO2
Read More This Is What Climate Change Looks Like In An Era Of Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic seems likely to continue to threaten and disrupt lives across the world for at least several months to come. But it’s vital this does not mean the ongoing impacts of climate change are buried behind the headlines or ignored by governments.
Read More What Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet, in 19 Jaw-Dropping Images
Ahead of a series of major events later this year, The Foundation for Deep Ecology and the Population Media Center released a collection that illustrates the devastating effects of out-of-control growth and waste, and it’s breathtaking.
Read More Great Barrier Reef Suffers Third Mass Coral Bleaching Event in Five Years
Renowned scientist Terry Hughes says huge swathes of reef have been affected in a ‘severe’ situation
Read More Polar Ice Caps Melting Six Times Faster Than in 1990s
The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s, according to the most complete analysis to date.
Read More The IPCC’s Worst Case Scenario
A recent landmark study of massive ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland fulfills the “worst case” prognosis, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s a nightmare come true, as the impact of global warming on the planet’s most significant/biggest masses of ice multiplied six-fold in only 30 years. It wasn’t supposed to happen so unexpectedly, so suddenly.
Read More Global Warming on a Rampage
The year 2019 is the 43rd consecutive year since 1977 with both land and ocean temperatures above the global 20th century average. And the global rate of global warming has doubled since 1977, an ominous and clear signal of accelerating global warming. Frankly, it’s horrible news. Brace yourself!
Read More Amazon Onslaught
This month, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro proposed a new bill promoting mining, expanded agriculture, and energy production on indigenous lands in the Amazon. During Bolsonaro’s first full year in office, Amazon deforestation increased by 85%, an eye-popping number expected to get even worse.
Read More Temperature in Antarctica Soars Past 69°F as NOAA Reports Last Month Was World’s Hottest January on Record
While the reading in Antarctica still needs to be confirmed, the Brazilian scientists who logged it called the new record “incredible and abnormal.”
Read More ‘The Saddest Thing Is That This Won’t Be Breaking News’: Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm
“Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!”
Read More Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming
Recent climate models project that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 above pre-industrial levels could cause temperatures to soar far above previous estimates. A warming earth, researchers now say, will lead to a loss of clouds, allowing more solar energy to strike the planet.
Read More Arctic Permafrost Thaw Plays Greater Role in Climate Change Than Previously Estimated
Abrupt thawing of permafrost will double previous estimates of potential carbon emissions from permafrost thaw in the Arctic, and is already rapidly changing the landscape and ecology of the circumpolar north, a new CU Boulder-led study finds.
Read More A Climate Time Bomb With Trump’s Name Inscribed
Thwaites, in West Antarctica, is the world’s most dangerous glacier. As of January 15th, scientists have labeled it: “A Climate Time Bomb.”
Read More How Melting Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic
The frozen layer of soil that has underlain the Arctic tundra for millennia is now starting to thaw. This melting, which could release vast amounts of greenhouse gases, is already changing the Arctic landscape by causing landslides, draining lakes, and altering vegetation.
Read More 2019 Was the Second Warmest Year on Record
According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.
Read More Climate Change Won’t Result in a New Normal but in Constant, Horrifying New Disasters
At an intense level of combined heat and humidity—a “wet bulb” reading of 35 degrees Celsius, hotter and more humid than humans have ever experienced—the air will become so muggy that people can’t sweat and their organs begin to shut down, even when sitting in the shade.
Read More The Rumbling ESAS Methane Enigma
The East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) has the biggest potential to trigger runaway global warming because of sizeable subsea methane deposits, thereby taking civilization down to its knees.
Read More Mega Droughts Engulf Countries
Throughout the world, mega droughts are hitting hard with a ferocity not seen in decades and in some cases not seen in centuries. It’s not merely coincidental that as global warming accelerates droughts turn more vicious than ever before.
Read More Are we already beyond climate tipping points? – A MAHB Dialogue with Paleo-Climatologist Andrew Glikson
There is hardly any future for many species and for human civilization under mean global temperatures of more than 2 degrees Celsius, let alone under more than 4 degrees Celsius, which is where we are heading… – Andrew Glikson
Read More Yes, Australia Has Always Had Bushfires: But 2019 Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
Record drought in Australia attributed to accelerating climate change has contributed to a continent-scale emergency that has burned through more than 5m hectares and alarmed scientists, doctors and firefighters.
Read More The Amazon at a Tipping Point
The Amazon rainforest is a crucial life-support ecosystem–without it, civilization would cease to exist beyond scattered tribes, here and there. But recent research concludes that the life of this beacon of biodiversity and resilience may soon come to an end: “The tipping point is here, it is now.”
Read More Biosphere Collapse?
The world is on a colossal fossil fuel growth phase in the face of stark warnings from scientists that emissions must decline to net zero. Otherwise, the planet is destined to turn into a hothouse. As things stand today, it appears “Hothouse” is baking into the cake.
Read More 2019: A Year in the Life of Our Escalating Climate Crisis
The climate news was not good this year—all the more reason to fight with renewed vigor in the next.
Read More Greta Thunberg at COP25: ‘There Is no Sense of Urgency’
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, whom Time Magazine just named “Person of the Year,” spoke to delegates at the COP25 climate conference in Madrid.
Read More Scientists Warn World Will Reach “Peak Meat” by 2030
A demand letter signed by more than 50 leading environmental experts calls upon world governments to replace animal agriculture with plant-based food production to keep the Earth from warming to dangerous levels.
Read More ‘The Science Is Screaming’: UN Report Warns Only Rapid and Transformational Action Can Stave Off Global Climate Disaster
“Failure to heed these warnings and take drastic action to reverse emissions means we will continue to witness deadly and catastrophic heatwaves, storms, and pollution.”
Read More Permafrost Hits a Grim Threshold
For tens of thousands of years the Arctic’s carbon sink has been a powerful dynamic in functionality of the Earth System. However, that all-important functionality has been crippled and could be permanently severed. According to new research, the “entire Arctic” now emits more carbon than it absorbs, a fact that can only be described as worse than bad news.
Read More The New Climate Math: The Numbers Keep Getting More Frightening
Scientists keep raising ever-louder alarms about the urgency of tackling climate change, but the world’s governments aren’t listening. Yet the latest numbers don’t lie: Nations now plan to keep producing more coal, oil, and gas than the planet can endure.
Read More Last Arctic Ice Refuge Is Disappearing
The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic Ocean, according to new research.
Read More Ignoring Climate Catastrophes
The planet is coming apart at the seams right before the eyes of scientists at work in remote fringe areas of the North where permafrost crumbles and collapses. It’s abrupt climate change at work in real time, but the governing leaders of the world either don’t care or don’t know.
Read More Walmart, Costco, Target, McDonalds and More! Companies Linked to Promoting Amazon Deforestation
Fires in the Amazon made global headlines for weeks. Alongside the criticism of the Brazilian government for encouraging anti-environmental stances, new information is now available on business and companies‘ impact on the fires in the Amazon.
Read More The Scariest Horror Movie of the Year Is an Environmental Documentary
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch takes viewers on a hypnotic worldwide tour of the destruction we have wrought.
Read More Amazon Rainforest ‘Close to Irreversible Tipping Point’
Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” within two years
Read More Circles of Life
I wrote this about 20 years ago when I was really struggling to come to terms with the enormous destruction humanity is wreaking upon the Earth, while also appreciating the deep resilience of life.
Read More Methane SOS
Global warming is on speed, especially in northern latitudes where an international team of scientists recently made a startling discovery aboard the Academic Mstislav Keldysh (see photo above), the kind of discovery that sends chills down the spine, i.e., “methane bubbles boiling in water.”
Read More Abrupt Climate Change,the Nuclear Threat, Methane in the ESAS: Robert Hunziker interviewed on Nature Bats Last
The October episode of Nature Bats Last featured a discussion between NBL co-hosts Professor Guy McPherson, Kevin Hester and US independent journalist Robert Hunziker.
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