Greenhouse gas – 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 / 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....

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...

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Man-made Disaster / Permafrost / Unnatural Disaster

February 8, 2012

Quantifying Climate Impacts

Joint press release by the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 02/07/2012 Quantifying climate impacts: new comprehensive model comparison launched Climate change has impacts on...

Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas

December 5, 2011

Climate Dents in Humankind´s Family Tree

This is today as the latest Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Climate dents in humankind´s family tree: new correlations discovered Climate changes in Earth’s history have influenced...

Air pollution / Carbon dioxide / Greenhouse gas

October 17, 2011

Vertical Stacked Forests?

For details of this venture happening in Milan, Italy, go here. Read more: Bosco Verticale in Milan Will Be the World’s First Vertical Forest Bosco Verticale – Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World “The...

Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas

February 21, 2011

Less CO2-emissions = more economic growth

Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): 21/02/2011 EU climate target: Less CO2-emissions could trigger more economic growth. Increasing the EU’s 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target from 20% to 30%...

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...