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Kiss the Amazon Goodbye?
by Robert Hunziker | Sep 12, 2022 | Earth | 0
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.
Read MoreIs There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
by Robert Hunziker | Aug 25, 2022 | Earth | 0
The short answer: No, not even close!
Read MoreWill Egypt Drain the World’s Second Largest Wetlands?
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 17, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreChomsky & the United Nations Warn of Collapse
by The CNCL Team | Jul 10, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreBuckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling
by Robert Hunziker | Jun 18, 2022 | Earth | 0
The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street.
Read MoreIndia – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die
by Robert Hunziker | May 26, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Biomass Peril
by Robert Hunziker | May 24, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreJapan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests
by Robert Hunziker | May 1, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Collapse of Industrial Farming
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 28, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreScientists Hit the Streets
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 12, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Truth About IPCC Reports
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 10, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreLiberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill
by The CNCL Team | Apr 8, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreAntarctica on Edge
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 29, 2022 | Earth | 0
East Antarctica, often times referred to as “the final frontier of global warming,” is making headlines once again.
Read MoreMethane Acceleration Sets Record
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 20, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreDangerously Awash in Chemicals
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 15, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreOcean Heat Killing Spree
by Robert Hunziker | Feb 12, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreDangerous Heat Across the Globe
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 26, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Oceans Are Overheating
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 16, 2022 | Earth | 0
The world’s oceans in 2021 witnessed the hottest temperatures in recorded history.
Read MoreWhen to Build Sea Walls
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 10, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreBook Review: ‘Bright Green Lies’ Torpedoes Greens
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 4, 2022 | Earth | 0
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 MoreWarnings from the Far North
by Robert Hunziker | Dec 31, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreWhat if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?
by Robert Hunziker | Dec 18, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreBurned-out Forests Are Not Re-Growing
by Robert Hunziker | Dec 5, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Dreaded Rainforest Shift
by Robert Hunziker | Nov 28, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Woody Biomass Blunder
by Robert Hunziker | Nov 17, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreMother Nature, Inc.
by Robert Hunziker | Nov 13, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreCode Red on FacingFuture.TV
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 15, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreSiberia’s Hot Streak
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 5, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreDrought Clobbers the World
by Robert Hunziker | Aug 30, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreApocalypse
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 31, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreToxic Chemicals Engulf the Planet
by Robert Hunziker | Jun 14, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreIf Fukushima’s Water is Safe, Then Drink it!
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 25, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Doomsday Glacier Lives up to its Billing
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 22, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreDirect Air Capture and Big Oil
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 14, 2021 | Earth | 0
There’s something cagey going on with the world’s biggest corporations, over-weighted by oil producers, now feigning green.
Read MoreApproaching a Risky 1.5°C Global Overshoot
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 7, 2021 | Earth, Uncategorized | 0
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 MoreEcocide!
by Robert Hunziker | Feb 20, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
by The CNCL Team | Feb 8, 2021 | Earth | 0
Our climate models could be missing something big.
Read More2020 Ties 2016 as Earth’s Hottest Year on Record, Even Without El Niño to Supercharge It
by The CNCL Team | Jan 24, 2021 | Earth | 0
The last six years were the six hottest recorded on the planet, and 2020 closed the warmest decade on record.
Read MoreAn Exhausted Planet Limps Into 2021
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 13, 2021 | Earth | 0
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 MoreMenacing Methane – An Analysis
by Robert Hunziker | Dec 17, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreA Troubling Discovery in the Arctic
by Robert Hunziker | Nov 7, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreDumping Fukushima’s Water into the Ocean… Seriously?
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 31, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreLarge-Scale Permafrost Thawing
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 21, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Great Unravelling: ‘I Never Thought I’d Live to See the Horror of Planetary Collapse’
by The CNCL Team | Oct 17, 2020 | Earth | 0
We are the generation that is likely to witness the destruction of our Earth.
Read MoreKiss the Amazon Rainforest Goodbye
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 3, 2020 | Earth | 0
Right before the eyes of the world, the most legendary rainforest on the planet is going up in smoke.
Read MoreGreenland Succumbs
by Robert Hunziker | Aug 26, 2020 | Earth | 0
Greenland’s ice is melting at an accelerating rate, which has alarming implications for human society as we know it.
Read MoreFreakish Arctic Fires Alarmingly Intensify
by Robert Hunziker | Aug 13, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe World on Fire
by Robert Hunziker | Aug 8, 2020 | Earth | 0
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
by The CNCL Team | Aug 3, 2020 | Earth | 0
Moby, who executively produced the film, says it’s a ‘must-watch for anyone who is passionate about combating corruption’
Read MoreThawing Arctic Permafrost
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 26, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreMethane Emissions Have Jumped a Staggering Nine Percent Since Last Decade
by The CNCL Team | Jul 21, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Sky Is Falling – Yes – No
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 18, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Climate Inertia Bugaboo
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 17, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreArctic Hits Hottest Temperature on Record at 100.4 Degrees Fahrenheit
by The CNCL Team | Jun 26, 2020 | Earth | 0
“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 MoreAmazon Rainforest Hit By Killer Droughts
by Robert Hunziker | Jun 26, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreClimate Models for Upcoming UN Report Show ‘Incredibly Alarming’ Risk of Runaway Warming
by The CNCL Team | Jun 21, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreWarmest May on Record, Siberia 10C Hotter
by The CNCL Team | Jun 7, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreContact with the Sacred
by The CNCL Team | May 25, 2020 | Earth | 0
Published by KarmaTube With spectacular visual images, this film reminds us of the necessity of...
Read More10C Above Baseline
by Robert Hunziker | May 23, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Wet-Bulb Peril Has Arrived… Way Too Early
by Robert Hunziker | May 13, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreWhy ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher
by The CNCL Team | May 11, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreMicroplastics Found in Antarctic Sea Ice Samples for First Time, Scientists Say
by The CNCL Team | Apr 27, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 More10 Things We’ve Learned a Decade After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
by The CNCL Team | Apr 21, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreAbrupt Ecosystem Collapse
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 16, 2020 | Earth | 0
Abrupt ecosystem collapse is similar to coronavirus in some aspects but dreadfully different and much more sinister in many others.
Read MoreGlobal Lockdowns Might Reduce CO2 Emissions but Won’t Halt Climate Crisis, Scientists Say
by The CNCL Team | Apr 13, 2020 | Earth | 0
There’s a difference between CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentrations of CO2
Read MoreThis Is What Climate Change Looks Like In An Era Of Covid-19
by The CNCL Team | Mar 31, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreWhat Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet, in 19 Jaw-Dropping Images
by The CNCL Team | Mar 29, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreGreat Barrier Reef Suffers Third Mass Coral Bleaching Event in Five Years
by The CNCL Team | Mar 26, 2020 | Earth | 0
Renowned scientist Terry Hughes says huge swathes of reef have been affected in a ‘severe’ situation
Read MorePolar Ice Caps Melting Six Times Faster Than in 1990s
by The CNCL Team | Mar 21, 2020 | Earth | 0
The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s, according to the most complete analysis to date.
Read MoreThe IPCC’s Worst Case Scenario
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 19, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreGlobal Warming on a Rampage
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 8, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreAmazon Onslaught
by Robert Hunziker | Feb 15, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreTemperature in Antarctica Soars Past 69°F as NOAA Reports Last Month Was World’s Hottest January on Record
by The CNCL Team | Feb 14, 2020 | Earth | 0
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
by The CNCL Team | Feb 13, 2020 | Earth | 0
“Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!”
Read MoreWhy Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming
by The CNCL Team | Feb 6, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreArctic Permafrost Thaw Plays Greater Role in Climate Change Than Previously Estimated
by The CNCL Team | Feb 5, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreA Climate Time Bomb With Trump’s Name Inscribed
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 27, 2020 | Earth | 0
Thwaites, in West Antarctica, is the world’s most dangerous glacier. As of January 15th, scientists have labeled it: “A Climate Time Bomb.”
Read MoreHow Melting Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic
by The CNCL Team | Jan 24, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 More2019 Was the Second Warmest Year on Record
by The CNCL Team | Jan 24, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreClimate Change Won’t Result in a New Normal but in Constant, Horrifying New Disasters
by The CNCL Team | Jan 24, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Rumbling ESAS Methane Enigma
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 23, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreMega Droughts Engulf Countries
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 11, 2020 | Earth | 0
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 MoreAre we already beyond climate tipping points? – A MAHB Dialogue with Paleo-Climatologist Andrew Glikson
by The CNCL Team | Dec 26, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreYes, Australia Has Always Had Bushfires: But 2019 Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
by The CNCL Team | Dec 26, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Amazon at a Tipping Point
by Robert Hunziker | Dec 25, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreBiosphere Collapse?
by Robert Hunziker | Dec 20, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 More2019: A Year in the Life of Our Escalating Climate Crisis
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Earth | 0
The climate news was not good this year—all the more reason to fight with renewed vigor in the next.
Read MoreGreta Thunberg at COP25: ‘There Is no Sense of Urgency’
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Earth | 0
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, whom Time Magazine just named “Person of the Year,” spoke to delegates at the COP25 climate conference in Madrid.
Read MoreScientists Warn World Will Reach “Peak Meat” by 2030
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Earth | 0
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
by The CNCL Team | Dec 10, 2019 | Earth | 0
“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 MorePermafrost Hits a Grim Threshold
by Robert Hunziker | Dec 8, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe New Climate Math: The Numbers Keep Getting More Frightening
by The CNCL Team | Nov 30, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreLast Arctic Ice Refuge Is Disappearing
by The CNCL Team | Nov 18, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreIgnoring Climate Catastrophes
by Robert Hunziker | Nov 10, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreWalmart, Costco, Target, McDonalds and More! Companies Linked to Promoting Amazon Deforestation
by The CNCL Team | Nov 1, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreThe Scariest Horror Movie of the Year Is an Environmental Documentary
by The CNCL Team | Nov 1, 2019 | Earth | 0
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch takes viewers on a hypnotic worldwide tour of the destruction we have wrought.
Read MoreAmazon Rainforest ‘Close to Irreversible Tipping Point’
by The CNCL Team | Oct 28, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreCircles of Life
by Paris Williams | Oct 18, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreMethane SOS
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 12, 2019 | Earth | 0
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 MoreAbrupt Climate Change,the Nuclear Threat, Methane in the ESAS: Robert Hunziker interviewed on Nature Bats Last
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 6, 2019 | Earth | 0
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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- Safety ThirdBy Charles EisensteinSafety-obsession deadens the spirit. It wraps a constriction band around life. It is always a little dangerous to probe one’s boundaries. It is always a bit dangerous to venture into the unknown. “Safety first” shrinks the horizons of possibility. […]
- How BBC Coverage Is Enabling Israeli State Violence at Al-AqsaBy The CNCL TeamOnce again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression. […]
- It’s Not Just the Settlers – or Israel – Responsible for the Torching of HuwwaraBy The CNCL TeamEndless indulgence from Israel’s supporters in the West has cleared a path to a fascist government intent on ‘wiping out’ Palestinian communities […]
- Caitlin Johnstone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixBy The CNCL TeamCaitlin Johnstone contemplates the war in Ukraine, corporate media, the U.S. empire and more. […]
- Woke ImperialismBy The CNCL TeamWoke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state. […]