Monthly Archives: November 2010

The planet is in danger of crossing a “tipping point” of irreversible damage to its atmosphere, climate, water and ecosystems unless governments can develop comprehensive strategies to promote growth and sustainability, warns a new report released on Thursday by an … Continue reading →

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11762636

The Cancun global warming boondoggle starts on November 29. NCEP forecasts a massive Arctic blast to cover North America, Europe and Asia that week. I don’t think I have ever seen such widespread cold forecast this early in the winter … Continue reading →

London is only three metres above sea level, and sea level is rising at 1.64 mm per year. This gives residents only 1,824 years to pack up their stuff and and move out. http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/

I live a very healthy lifestyle. I eat organic food and exercise several times a day. I don’t eat much meat, and the meat I do eat is free-range from humanely raised animals. As a result, I am in excellent … Continue reading →

“We are taking the fight to them because we are… tired of taking the hits,” Scott Mandia, professor of physical sciences at Suffolk County Community College in New York, told the Chicago Tribune. “The notion that truth will prevail is … Continue reading →

Art by Josh Neumann http://blog.lege.net/content/Follow_the_Lemmings.html “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.” phytoplankton, methane, drought, ocean acidification, … Continue reading →

UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change, 13-18°F over most of U.S. and 27°F in the Arctic, could happen in 50 years, but “we do have time to stop it if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon.” h/t to Joe Romm … Continue reading →

What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient… highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed – fully understood … Continue reading →

“Doesn’t the east coast of South America fit exactly against the west coast of Africa, as if they had once been joined?” wrote Wegener to his future wife in December 1910. “This is an idea I’ll have to pursue.” It … Continue reading →