Tag Archives: global warming

Right-wing ranters in my Twitter timeline are pooh-poohing the whole climate discussion without doing their homework. So, here’s a little reader to aid and abet (sorry, early retired teacher and that all).Let’s start at the beginning:1. CO2 is measured at the Manua Loa station. Results are clear, robust, and stark: CO2 is increasing. And no, CO2 is not ‘following temperature’ as the latest lazymeme from the lazyright wants to have it. It’s following us. We’re causing it. A ‘mass...

A portion of an article about climate impacting global civilianization as presented in Foreign Policy. I believe it lays bare how threatened we are everywhere due to a failure to react to even slight variations in global climate. On even a micro-level we see Montana communities pushing back on court rulings on polluting the environment. It is so small. “Our state of Montana is not impacted by our mining. We still have a clean environment.”...

A portion of an article about climate impacting global civilianization as presented in Foreign Policy. I believe it lays bare how threatened we are everywhere due to a failure to react to even slight variations in global climate. On even a micro-level we see Montana communities pushing back on court rulings on polluting the environment. It is so small. “Our state of Montana is not impacted by our mining. We still have a clean environment.”...

The existential risks associated with global warming include coastal flooding, loss of fresh water, desertification, life-threatening temperatures and loss of ocean fisheries. Another risk is the spread of infectious diseases that are normally restricted to tropical latitudes. While the prospect of eliminating insect vectors such as Aedes and Anopheles mosquitoes, tsetse flies and triatomine bugs using CRISPR gene drives offers some hope, viruses and...

Without efforts to control human-caused global warming, we should consider the current extremes a preview of coming attractions.  While the mega drought continues in the west and southwest:  Although the 2021 summer monsoon was good – well above average in some places – it was not enough to counter the cumulative shortfalls of the preceding years. The cumulative precipitation for the 20-month period was the lowest on record, dating back to...

...climate change is eating the Himalayas' glaciers, threatening water supplies for hundreds of millions of people downstream across South Asia... Yahoo NewsHimalayan glaciers melting twice as fast: study AFPAlsoBBC NewsChennai water crisis: City's reservoirs run dry

James Lovelock predicted long ago that global warming would develop faster than predicted owing to the synergism of the ecological system in which there are knock-on effects.ReutersScientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years early Matthew Green

"But how will we pay for it?" The bill for all the negative externality that has been socialized is coming due.TruthdigThe $70-Trillion Climate Bill Coming Our WayTim Radford / Climate News Network

Melting of glaciers from beneath.The London EconomicWatch - New process contributing to sea level rise and climate change discovered Joe Mellor

India is the most vulnerable country to climate change, followed by Pakistan, the Philippines and Bangladesh, a ranking by HSBC showed on Monday.... Pakistan was ranked by HSBC among nations least well-equipped to respond to climate risks.... Not that prior to the partition of India after independence, Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India. This area of the subcontinent is most vulnerable.ReutersIndia most vulnerable country to climate change - HSBC report