The Endgame: Climate Change as Weapon
Thinking on these images from Mozambique, Zimbabwe & elsewhere I suddenly realize that what I had only dimly perceived or hadn’t wanted to believe was most likely true: the climate change deniers in power...
Category: Climate Change
Rainfall extremes are connected across continents: Nature study
Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 31/01/2019 Extreme rainfall events in one city or region are connected to the same kind of events thousands of kilometers away, an international team...
The living lab experiment “Climate-Neutral Living in Berlin” takes stock
Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 31/01/2019The living lab experiment “Climate-Neutral Living in Berlin” takes stock: Everyone can contribute to climate stabilization, but without politics it won’t succeed “Climate-Neutral Living...
PIK on Climate Summit COP24 in Katowice
The UN climate summit COP24 in Katowice, Poland, closed; below PIK’s statement which I think is somewhat overoptimistic, remembering that the Paris agreement does not entail any compulsion toward change. COP24 President Michal Kurtyka’s celebration (cf. pix above)...
Winter weather extremes in the US and Europe:
Messing with giant airstreams in the stratosphere. Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 22/11/2018 Over Thanksgiving, arctic air masses are predicted to bring record-cold temperatures and frigid winds to the...
Extreme Weather Likely To Become More Frequent
Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 01/11/2018 Extreme weather will likely become more frequent due to stalling of giant waves in the atmosphere • Computer simulations predict a strong increase...
Planet at risk of heading towards irreversible “Hothouse Earth” state
Joint Press Release by the Stockholm Resilience Center, University of Copenhagen, Australian National University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 07/08/2018 Keeping global warming to within 1.5-2°C may be more difficult than...
Stronger evidence for a weaker Atlantic overturning
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 11/04/2018 The Atlantic overturning – one of Earth’s most important heat transport systems, pumping warm water northwards and cold water southwards – is weaker...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMAN: WHAT IF THE LEFTWING HOAXERS ARE RIGHT?
VIA VIKING ON CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL AND THE RESURGENCE OF CARBON-FUELED IDEOLOGY April 11, 2018 By William T. Vollmann In the time when I lived, it was still possible to meet Americans who disbelieved in global...
PIK: Reports of coal’s terminal decline are premature
Joint Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)07/02/2018 While less new coal-fired power plants are now being built...
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux