BOOKS: Wellsprings -- A Fable of Consciousness | William T. Hathaway

Climate Change Requires Consciousness Change William T. Hathaway -- World News Trust May 5, 2014 To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone talks about climate change but no one does anything about it. No on ...

Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come | Justin Gillis

Greenland's immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change. CreditKadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times March 30, 2014 -- YOKOHAMA, Japan (New York Times) -- Climate change is alread ...

2030 is the New 2012 | John Michael Greer

Jan. 8, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s discussion of failed predictions in the peak oil movement inevitably touched on the latest round of claims that the world as we know it is going to come ...

The Song of the Snallygaster | John Michael Greer

Jan. 1, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- I've noticed, over the past few years, a growing lack of enthusiasm in the formerly raucous festivities that once marked the end of one year and the beginning of an ...

Climate-Change Summary And Update | Guy McPherson

Guy McPhersonEditor's Note: Here are a few links discussing Guy McPherson's ideas about the climate. John Michael Greer dismisses him as a crank. Judge for yourself. --Francis Goodwin http://worldnew ...

Night of the Living Permafrost | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning.” - Dennis Hopper Imagine a lethal global menace l ...

Imperfect Storms | John Michael Greer

June 26, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s post on the need to check our narratives against the evidence of history turned out to be rather more timely than I expected. Over the weekend, followi ...

The Politics of Time's Shape | John Michael Greer

May 22, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s discussion was a bit of a divagation from the main theme of the present sequence of posts on The Archdruid Report, but it was a divagation with a purpos ...

Waters Off Northeast US Coast Unusually Warm, Says NOAA | Eoin O'Carroll

Sea surface temperatures on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf reached the highest recorded in 150 years, says an advisory issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A lobsterma ...

The Illusion of Invincibility | John Michael Greer

March 20, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the wry amusements to be had from writing a blog that routinely contradicts the conventional wisdom of our time is the way that defenders of that same conv ...

Scientists Confirm: Arctic Sea Ice 'Collapse' at Our Door | Jacob Chamberlain

Warming planet and new evidence portend future of ice-free Arctic Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via Robinson) Feb. 15, 2013 (CommonDreams) -- The Arctic Sea is experiencing rapi ...