Climate Change
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Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says | Alex Morales
Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won’t do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures, which are set to rise by about double the United Nations target of 2 degrees Celsiu ...
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The Post-American Future | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerNov. 7, 2012 (Archduid Report) -- One of the things I’ve learned repeatedly over six and a half years of writing Archdruid Report posts is that it’s a waste of time to try to predic ...
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'Tear down the walls!' 'No calculations!' -- John Baird speaks at the UN | Jim Miles
John BairdOct. 6, 2012 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Canada’s Foreign Minister, John Baird, in lieu of Prime Minister Harper, read a prepared text to a mainly empty UN General Assembly hall during the ...
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We Are Writing the Epilogue to the World We Knew |John Atcheson
Aug. 31, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- The data continue to roll in, and they are telling us we are in the process of bringing an end to the world we evolved in, and creating a new, harsher world. We will ...
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Life Is Sacred | Chris Hedges
A village boy leads his goat past a parched pond on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar. AP/Biswaranjan Rout. Sep. 3, 2012 (Truthdig) -- I retreat in the summer to the mountains a ...
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Sea Levels Rising Fast on U.S. East Coast | Charles Q. Choi
Not clear whether human-caused global warming is to blame, experts say. The last house on Holland Island, Maryland, where 360 people lived before tides took over (file picture). Photograph by Astrid ...
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The Parting Of The Ways | John Michael Greer
its-just-nathan.tumblr.comJune 13, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- Chalk it up to an adolescence spent reading such cheerful books as The Limits to Growth and The Coming Dark Age, but it takes quite a bit ...
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Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone | AP
The Arctic Ocean with leads and cracks in the ice cover of north of Alaska. Photograph: Courtesy Eric Kort/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Monitoring stations in the Arctic detect record levels of car ...
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Seascape With Methane Plumes | John Michael Greer
Methane plume from the sea floor Oct. 25, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- In the wake of last week’s post, I’d meant to plunge straight into the next part of this sequence of posts and talk about the unra ...
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Pillow for Flood Relief (Deborah Goodwin)
Oct. 14, 2011 -- STOCKBRIDGE, Vt. (ShapeShiftas) -- ShapeShiftas is pleased to announce the availablility of a very special, limited-edition Eye of the Hurricane Irene pillow. This handcrafted piece ...
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Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security (Stephen Leahy)
This data visualisation from the Aqua satellite show the maximum sea ice extent for 2008-09. Credit:NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio Sept. 15, 2011 (Inter Press Service) -- All the anal ...
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