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Antarctica Ice Melt will trigger Abrupt Global Heating

By Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Peter Kershaw, Steven Phipps, and Zoë Thomas | (The Conversation) | - - Melting of Antarctica’s ice can trigger rapid warming on the other side of the…

On 9/11: How we slighted the real Threat, Climate Change, and Hyped Terrorism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US is commemorating the victims of September 11 today at the same time it is mourning the serial devastation that struck Texas…

On top of everything, Will the Middle East run out of Water?

By George Joffe | (The Conversation) | - - The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) already the most water stressed region in the world, faces a worsening crisis in terms of…

Weathering the Violence of Climate Change

By Gulrez Shah Azhar | (Project Syndicate) | - - SANTA MONICA – With India experiencing its worst drought in 140 years, Indian farmers have taken to the streets. At a protest…

Why no Eclipse Denialists? The Same Science predicts Global Heating

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Eminent physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson's tweet pointing out that there are no eclipse denialists the way there are dedicated climate change denialists went…

Scientists Leak Study on Global Heating Impact b4 Trump can Suppress it

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A draft report on the current impact of global heating on the United States, produced by 13 Federal agencies, has been leaked to…

GOP Jet-setters in Climate Denial: It is getting too Hot for your Plane to take Off

By Ethan Coffel | (The Conversation) | - - Hot weather has forced dozens of commercial flights to be canceled at airports in the Southwest this summer. This flight-disrupting heat is a…

Of all things Trump did to us, Vast new toxic CO2 Emissions are the Worst

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy? Pundits and critics across the political spectrum have chided him for…

If we don’t Dump Fossil Fuels Now, we’re Sticking our Kids with $530 Trillion in Debt

By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | - - By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of up to US$535…

It’s going to Get a lot Hotter; how Hot depends on You

Richard B. Rood | (The Conversation) | - - Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of observations, documented in thousands of journal papers and texts and summarized every…

The World Is Burning (Stop burning Fossil Fuels, Stupid!)

By IPS World Desk | (Inter Press Service) | - - Record high temperatures are gripping much of the globe and more hot weather are to come. This implies more drought, more…

The Climate Catastrophe Trump Promotes: Bangladesh between Flood and Drought

World Bank | (Video Clip) - - "Due to its geographical position, Bangladesh is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts. Watch how communities in areas afflicted by recurring floods…

How bad could Trump’s Paris Agreement withdrawal be? A scientist’s perspective

By Robert Kopp | (The Conversation) | - - Even before the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015, market forces and policy measures were starting to tilt the world toward a…

Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Trump just Doomed his own Supporters

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Thursday, Trump delivered himself of one of the most brain-dead speeches ever given by an American president, more imbecilic even than Bush's…

The Other Terrorism: Toxic CO2 Gas Promoted by Trump Budget, Shell

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Terrorism is properly defined as non-state actors using violence against civilians to achieve a political purpose. Some argue that this definition lets states…

20 Million People Could ‘Starve to Death’ in Next Six Months

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME (IPS) - Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan…

Climate March: How many more atomic bombs is Trump setting off in our Atmosphere?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The People's Climate March on Saturday will protest the Trump administration's pro-Climate Change policies of increasing US carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Just…

Does Climate change increase Threat of Terrorism?

By Manon Flausch | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Samuel White | - - "Poverty and insecurity can be factors in radicalisation." [Manon Flausch] From South America to the Middle East, the effects…

Donald Trump: Global Ecocide

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into…

We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years

By Gavin Foster, Dana Royer, and Dan Lunt | (The Conversation) | - - Carbon dioxide concentrations are heading towards values not seen in the past 200m years. The sun has also…