Yes, it’s true that China’s air pollution can be seen from space (NASA photo). attribution: NASA Earth Observatory NASA satellite observes intense air pollution and fog over eastern China on 7 December 2013. A new study funded by Greenpeace shows that a quarter of a million Chinese people died of air pollution from coal fired […]
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China solves smog problem: See no evil
December 13th, 2013 · 1 Comment
Tags: China · environmental · guest post · pollution
“Humanity is altering Earth’s life support system …”
December 3rd, 2013 · Comments Off on “Humanity is altering Earth’s life support system …”
This video — transcript after the fold — calmly reviews with both data visualization and a rather disconcerting calm narration how “humanity is altering Earth’s life support system”. The clock is ticking … Note: For an interesting approach to visualization, see the Carbon Atlas.
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · video
What does serious climate change look like?
November 13th, 2013 · 3 Comments
Erratic, with this guest post, made me think … Perhaps you will find it interesting as well. And, well, perhaps you agree with me in hoping that “people” do / that humanity does “survive this bottleneck”. In Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, the father describes a persistent delusion where his family is surrounded by a cloud […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
Oceans Acidifying at Fastest Rate in 300,000,000 years. Don’t Worry, Be Happy?
September 2nd, 2013 · Comments Off on Oceans Acidifying at Fastest Rate in 300,000,000 years. Don’t Worry, Be Happy?
This is a guest post from a scientist who feels like FishOutOfWater when looking at America’s discourse over science issues, most notably climate change … We may be slipping into one of the greatest mass extinctions in the history of the earth, but just how worried should we be? The world’s oceans are turning acidic […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · guest post · Washington Post
Framing the Climate Crisis in a Moral Compass
January 31st, 2013 · Comments Off on Framing the Climate Crisis in a Moral Compass
This guest post comes from DWG. President Obama made a strong call for action on climate change in his inaugural address. As in the past, he described the potential for economic growth in the transition to energy sources with a much smaller carbon footprint. He also framed the issue in moral terms. “We will respond to […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming
#ObamaEnv: Steps for Presidential Action in light of Inaugural Address
January 22nd, 2013 · 1 Comment
President Obama’s inaugural address is being accounted for as one of his most progressive statements (certainly to a national audience) as President of the United States. Engaging in ‘climate spotting’, the paragraphs directly discussing Climate Change make it a true centerpiece of this (relatively) short inaugural address. We, the people, still believe that our obligations […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · Obama Administration · political symbols · President Barack Obama
Reclaiming Growth
January 12th, 2013 · 1 Comment
This guest post comes from James Wells. When you think of “?growth”,? what comes to mind? Progress? Improvement? Prosperity? Is the concept of growth a pleasing one?For many people, it is all those things. But this pleasing image might pose a very serious problem, a mental and emotional obstacle to even considering whether traditional economic […]
Tags: economics · environmental · environmental economics
“There’s been no warming for X years …”
January 10th, 2013 · Comments Off on “There’s been no warming for X years …”
With 1998 either being the hottest or one of the hottest (dependent on which temperature record set one works with) years in recorded history, a constant refrain has been “there has been no warming since …” (or, for awhile, since 1998 was such a peak (aberration), ‘there has been cooling’). That number has been extending […]
Tags: climate change · climate zombies · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · science
GreenGov offers a window on government at its best
September 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment
Over the next several days, what might be the most important Federal government conference on energy and climate issues this year (with the sad GAO last-minute cancellation of GovEnergy) will occur in Washington, DC. The GreenGov conference, co-sponsored by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), provides ten […]
Tags: Energy · environmental · Obama Administration
President Obama speaks re climate, crowd cheers, ‘The Village’ notices
September 7th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Last night, in his speech at Charlotte, the President spoke directly to climate issues. With a direct slap at Mitt Romney’s sad climate joking to anti-science cheering, the President said: And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet – because climate change is not a hoax. More […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · Obama Administration · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama