This evening, NBC will broadcast Harmony. Harmony could be described, perhaps, as the Prince Charles entry into the documentary film arena, with Prince Charles narrating a discussion both of the global challenges climate change creates and providing thoughtful / meaningful paths to address these challenges to help avert catastrophic climate chaos. For decades, The Prince […]
Entries Tagged as 'catastrophic climate change'
Seeking Harmony — prosperity and sustainability working together
November 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on Seeking Harmony — prosperity and sustainability working together
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change
“Outrage-Lib” Climate-Change LTE
August 10th, 2010 · 6 Comments
Warren S has made a commitment with a New Year’s Resolution. Every day, another letter to the editor or a politicians about climate change and global warming issues. One of his most recent conclusions is that the rampant inability of traditional media institutions to link global record war temperatures, the hottest year in recorded weather […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · guest post
The Darker Side of Lexus’ “Darker Side of Green”?
July 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Under the title The Darker Side of Green, Lexus (e.g., Toyota) has chosen to host a series of “debates” on climate change as part of its roll-out of hybrid Lexus CT200h. These events are hosted by a celebrity, with an environmentalist journalist and prominent skeptic ‘debating’ climate-change issues. To debate or not to debate: that […]
Tags: advertising · anti-science syndrome · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · greenwashing
Global Warming: Effing Scary! Complex! Easy!
July 29th, 2010 · Comments Off on Global Warming: Effing Scary! Complex! Easy!
Lafeminista’s Global Warming: Are you f***ing scared yet? highlights yet another reason for grave concern about the impacts of our using the atmosphere as a trash pit: we are killing life in the ocean as Scientists have discovered that the phytoplankton of the oceans has declined by about 40 per cent over the past century, […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · Energy
What’s in a name?
May 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments
No matter the word put against it, humanity is driving change in climate and other aspects of our living space. For decades, scientists, scholars, and public opinion pollsters have sought to place a name against the phenomena. Global Warming … Climate Change … Global Change … Climate Chaos; Climate Disruption … Climate Catastrophe … Climate […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming
Pre-empting Our Future: Why we MUST Defeat Kerry-(Graham)-Lieberman
April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment
While remaining uncertain as to just how bad it is, the concerns that KGL will cross the line from mediocrity to counterproductive are increasing. Here is a guest post from Craig Altemose laying out how he sees that line having already passed. For the past year and a half or so, I have been largely […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate legislation · environmental · government energy policy
Global Warming boosts Benadryl sales …
April 14th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Searching for the silver lining … perhaps Global Warming will boost drug company stock prices. The National Wildlife Federation released Extreme Allergies and Global Warming earlier today. This (extremely) well documented summary report (pdf) starkly lays out the facts: global warming will make conditions worse for allergy sufferers. In fact, while global warming has almost […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
Nobel Prize Winner’s Must Read … with a significant omission
April 10th, 2010 · 4 Comments
The New York Times Sunday magazine will feature a tour de force on climate economics by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. Entitled Building a Green Economy, a more appropriate title might be Climate Economics 101 and it should be required reading of every single Member of Congress and any journalist who writes on the […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · Global Warming
Linear thinking could doom humanity
March 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Linear thinking can doom an organization and/or a person. Yes … and linear thinking might just well doom the planetary ecosystem’s ability to support modern human civilization.
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
The Humane Society’s inhumanity … and tunnel vision
March 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
This evening the Humane Society will be honoring Members of Congress as Humane Federal Legislators of 2009. Top rank: House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., for his leadership on the Restore Our American Mustangs (ROAM) Act to overhaul the Interior Department’s management of wild horses on public lands and restore the prohibition on […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · coal · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy