Fossil fuel – Nomadics

Biodiversity / Climate Change / Ecology / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas

March 25, 2022

Forests, Food, Pandemics and the Extinction of Species:

Biodiversity Hotspots Research network publishes “10 Must Knows” on biodiversity Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 03/25/2022 “10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science”, ranging from climate stress for forests to...

Climate Change / Fossil fuel / Greenhouse gas / Solar Power

February 8, 2021

Coal and COVID-19

Light at the end of the tunnel? Time to maybe turn from the temporary distractions of the 4-year T-virus (but never forget how insecure this democratic essay is) to the way more massively lethal...

Climate Change / Ecology / Fossil fuel / Global Capitalism / Global Warming / Man-made Disaster / Uncategorized

March 21, 2019

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...

Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Ecology / Fossil fuel

June 28, 2017

Turning the Climate Tide by 2020

Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 28/06/2017 The world needs high-speed climate action for an immediate bending-down of the global greenhouse-gas emissions curve, leading experts caution. Aggressive reduction of fossil-fuel...

Air pollution / Carbon dioxide / Ecology / Fossil fuel / Global Capitalism / Global Warming

March 24, 2017

A “Carbon Law” offers pathway to halve emissions every decade

Press release by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research On the eve of this year’s Earth hour (25 March), researchers...

Corporate America / Economy / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Capitalism / Global Warming / History / Man-made Disaster / Politics

November 4, 2016

Uri Avnery on The Need to Vote, or, The Lesser Evil

November 5, 2016 The Lesser Evil WHO WILL win the elections in the US in three days? I know for sure. No need to ask the public opinion polls, the modern equivalent...

Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Oceans

September 14, 2015

Burning all fossil energy…

…would raise sea-level by more than 50 meters – and eliminate all ice of Antarctica Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 09/14/2015 Burning all of the world’s available fossil-fuel resources...

Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Permafrost

July 28, 2015

James Hansen & Climate Danger in the ‘Hyper-Anthropocene’ Age

Here the two concluding sections of J. Hansen et alii‘s paper: Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 ◦C global warming is highly dangerous. You...

Environment / Fossil fuel / Gulf Disaster

May 9, 2014

BP Oil Spill: Four Years Later

via the Audubon Society: April 20th marked the four-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This horrific accident killed 11 people and spilled over four million barrels...

Climate Change / Fossil fuel / Global Warming

January 31, 2014

Chris Hayes: Time to end the addiction

This is one of the best of our corporate media pieces on the subject of climate change / pollution I’ve seen. Chris Hayes rocks. Keystone XL: Time to end the addiction Chris Hayes’ take...