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Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Uncategorized

November 12, 2010

Climate Research: More weight for the human factor

Here the latest Press Release from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). I would add a sixth challenge without which the other five will remain beholden to the old and persistent ways...

Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Permafrost

October 28, 2010

Melting Glaciers Threaten Central Asia

Just in case we’ve forgotten about the Big Weather question while biting our nails worrying about the Republican backlash next week, here’s an article to remind us of the bigger picture out there. And...

Agitprop / Capitalism / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Gulf Disaster / Man-made Disaster

August 27, 2010

Bacteria, BP & Big Bucks

Well, Cloclo’s Kali Yug will have to wait until tomorrow, despite your baited breath, gentle readers, but the following seems important enough to disrupt the summer Beach Reading tales. Nicole — who is off...

Capitalism / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas

August 1, 2010

ABC of Global Warming

Teaching a course in Poetry & Ecology this fall. Friend John Maas forwarded this link here — looks like very basic but useful (because of where it comes from, ideologically) text to start off...

Antarctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Permafrost

July 7, 2010

Gulf Oil isn't All that's Leaking…

Here are three reports, just in case we are forgetting other potential (& growing) catastrophic possibilities in our environment while focusing on BP’s crimes against the planet in the Gulf: 1) Methane release ‘looks...

Antarctic Ice / Climate Change / Cultural Studies / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming

April 26, 2010

Energy to Melt Glaciers

Via friend John Maas, who saw it on the Grist site, this add from 1962 for the Oil company that would soon merge with Standard to create Exxon:

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Uncategorized

April 22, 2010

Earth Day — Green Brain?

Check out this piece in the New York Times (published a year ago, but still a useful reminder on Earth Day 2010): Why Isn’t the Brain Green? By JON GERTNER Two days after Barack...

Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming

March 24, 2010

Hackin' Earth?

A big conference coming up with scientists trying to see how to geoengineer the climate of the planet — below links to a few articles on these matters in the current issue of Wired....

Climate Change / Global Warming / Man-made Disaster

March 10, 2010

Weakening Sun would hardly slow global warming

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: 03/10/2010 Weakening Sun would hardly slow global warming A new Grand Minimum of solar activity would decrease the rise of global mean temperature caused...

Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Permafrost

March 4, 2010

Undersea Release of Methane

The New York Times today reports on a study that says that “Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way.” Below, the opening paras of Cornelia Dean‘s article. You can read the whole piece here....