Environment – Page 2

Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Man-made Disaster / Oceans / Permafrost / Permafrost / Unnatural Disaster

December 21, 2013

The World in a Wheelchair

An interesting, scary &, I believe, accurate article by Eric Holthaus on where we are at concerning global warming was just published by Quartz. Below, the opening paragraphs & the graph: So it’s come to this....

Environment

December 19, 2013

Risk of Absolute Water Scarcity

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 17/12/2013 Climate change puts forty percent more people at risk of absolute water scarcity: study Relative change in water resources at 2°C of warming...

Environment / Language / Uncategorized

December 17, 2013

A Two-Bit Morning

1) Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 12/17/2013 Recognizing the Elephant in the Room: Future Climate Impacts across Sectors A pioneering collaboration within the international scientific community has provided comprehensive...

Air pollution / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming

November 16, 2013

Climate Talks: 2° Target

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 11/15/2013 Success of climate talks vital for 2°C target Achieving a global climate agreement soon could be crucial for the objective to keep global...

Book Review / Climate Change / Cultural Studies / Environment / Essays / Poetry

September 25, 2013

James Sherry’s Oops! Environmental Poetics

Back in Brooklyn, where the “rentrée” is much less hectic & thus much more pleasurable than in Paris… thus, first local fall pleasure, the event, two evenings ago, at Poisson Rouge for James Sherry’s...

Climate Change / Environment

September 16, 2013

“The body of evidence is overwhelming”

Press release by the Earth League 09/16/2013 “The body of evidence is overwhelming”: Prominent climate scientists issue stark statement Two weeks prior to the launch of the first section of the latest IPCC’s report...

Agriculture / Capitalism / Cooking / Environment / Food / Unnatural Disaster

June 13, 2013

Food Safety Threatened, Democracy Subverted

Reprinted from current issue of Organic Consumer Association: Consumer Alert: Secret Trade Agreements Threaten Food Safety, Subvert Democracy By Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, June 13, 2013 For related articles and...

Antarctic Ice / Environment

March 19, 2013

Ecological Freediving in Antartica

Our friend Gilles Rigaud who works as a skipper on sailboats between the tip of South America & Antartica, just returned from his latest trip, bringing back a wonderful trove of pictures after ecologically...

Climate Change / Environment

January 14, 2013

Global Warming Heat Records X 5

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 01/14/2013 Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from...

Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Man-made Disaster

November 19, 2012

A Future Without Climate Policy

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 11/19/2012 4-degrees briefing for the World Bank: The risks of a future without climate policy Humankind’s emissions of greenhouse gases are breaking new records...