Month

Archives: Acidification of Oceans

The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies for global average temperature to know that…

In Rejecting Carbon Tax HR Clinton is playing Russian Roulette with our Future

Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | - - The Clinton presidential campaign has indicated that it will not support a carbon tax. But we simply cannot meet greenhouse gas reduction goals without…

The Hottest Year on Record: 12th month in a row of unprecedented heat

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | - - "The planet keeps getting warmer. The level of destruction from natural disasters is also climbing. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks…

As Coasts Flood, why isn’t the Corporate Press asking Candidates about Climate Change?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US corporate press is letting the presidential candidates set the agenda. Occasionally someone will step out of line, as Fox's Megyn Kelly…

Great Barrier Reef Endangered: Ocean turning Acidic from our Our Coal, Oil, Gas emissions

By Mathieu Mongin, Andrew Lenton, Jennifer Skerratt & Mark Baird | (The Conversation) | - - Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have travelled to spectacular coral reefs marvel…

The Question isn’t of Saving the World via Renewables but of how Much can be Saved

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Humanity is not abandoning fossil fuels fast enough to avoid some massive changes to our world's climate, with all the implications that change…

Even After World has Acted: GOP candidates on climate change

Touchvision | (Video News Report) | - - "What would happen to the committments President Obama is making at this week's Paris Climate Conference if a Republican wins the 2016 election?" Touchvision:…

Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here’s What’s going to happen to you and your children

By Katja Frieler | (The Conversation) | - - At the Paris climate summit, delegates are deciding on a global goal for temperature rise. At the time of publication, the latest draft…

Exxon investigation: A warning shot for fossil fuel companies as climate lies unveiled

The Tree | - - In the first concrete legal action against ExxonMobil’s web of climate lies, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced he will investigate whether the oil giant…

Climate Change to throw 100 mn. People into Poverty

By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The UN’s heavily-hyped Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were approved by more than 160 world leaders at a…

“We’re talking Survival”: Pacific Islanders call out Australia on Coal

The Tree | - - Pacific Island nations have stepped up pressure on their reckless neighbours, warning Australia and New Zealand that their inadequate action on climate change will doom island states…

Defying Saudis, Iran: Muslim thinkers call for Action on Climate Change at Istanbul Conference

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Attendees at the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Istanbul from 20 countries produced, and 60 of them signed, a declaration this week…

Major Indirect Benefits of Obama’s Climate Plan that could save the World

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Obama spoke on Monday on his plan to use the Environmental Protection Agency to pressure states to close high-carbon power plants and…

Are the Courts the next decisive Arena of Climate Activism?

By Emily Schwartz Greco | (Foreign Policy in Focus/ Otherwords) People from Seattle to Fiji are filing lawsuits over global warming — and they just might have a case. Climate action is…

While Americans obsess about ISIL, Rest of World Fears Global Warming

By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The world at large is apparently divided over what constitutes the biggest single threat to human kind: the…

If World Refuses to Act on Carbon, Oceans Doomed to ‘Irreversible’ Damage

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) New study warns, 'any new global climate agreement that does not minimize the impacts on the ocean will be inadequate.' Without "immediate and substantial" reductions…

5 Radical Takeaways from the Pope’s Letter on Climate

By Janet Redman | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Francis recognizes that there's no way to stop climate change without confronting the way the world does business. That's huge. Pope…

Climate Denial as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy

By Naomi Oreskes | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that increased polarization on Capitol Hill is due to the way the Republican…

The Immorality of harming the Earth: Burning Fossil Fuels is Today’s Golden Calf

By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) - - In the latter half of the nineteenth century, we began to burn fossil fuels rather casually, without much reflection, as if an epoch-marking discovery…

World’s Richest Nations at G7 Imperil Earth by Slow CO2 Reductions

By Lucy Cadena | (Inter Press Service) | - LONDON (IPS) - One of the promises made by the leaders of the world’s seven richest nations when they met at Schloss Elmau…