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If you want a couple of quick, albeit stomach-turning examples of the tactics the deniers and their ideological friends will stoop to, I can Climate Progress: Obama’s science adviser targeted by smear campaign: [Quoting a Huffington Post piece, linked from the original] Conservative media outlets are waging an online defamation campaign . . . → Read More: Deniers on parade And no, by “the indifference factor” I’m not talking about the staggering number of mainstreamers who are completely indifferent to issues of climate chaos or peak oil. No, I’m talking about a much more serious problem, if one can be imagined, the utter indifference of the universe to humanity’s needs and wants. This is . . . → Read More: The indifference factor Paul Gilding, former Executive Director of Greenpeace International, has a post on ClimateProgress and his own site (The Cockatoo Chronicles) that’s definitely worth your time. Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier and its implications for business strategy: As I argue in my Great Disruption writing and talks (see here for relevant links), human history shows we rarely respond to major . . . → Read More: Mental tipping points From China Daily comes word that things are not looking good for the glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Warming of plateau is ‘threatening all Asia’ (emphasis added): The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, one of the most susceptible areas on the planet to global warming, is heating up at such an alarming rate that experts fear it will suffer environmental deterioration . . . → Read More: Energy/water nexus on the Tibetan plateau After writing about the lingering terror that is the potential for Arctic methane releases yesterday, I discovered a seven-page paper that discusses some interesting aspects of that gas as a forcing agent. The paper is Global Warming: The Significance of Methane [small PDF], and it “was peer-reviewed and published in the scientific magazine ‘La Recherche’ . . . → Read More: Methane pulses The methane bad news keeps coming in waves, it seems, and we’re still trying to figure out just how large and how imminent a problem methane emissions from the Arctic region poses. I mentioned this situation the other day (Water and bubbles), in response to the latest study, the one that found numerous underwater methane plumes and . . . → Read More: Methane madness Yesterday, I pointed out this article, which quoted a Chinese official as saying that country’s CO2 emissions will peak in 2050. Now we have news of a new report (“2050 China Energy and C02 Emissions Report”) from within China that says: “As soon as possible, study and draft relative and (then) absolute targets to cap the total volume . . . → Read More: China emissions to peak in 2030? Green Car Congress: NOAA: Warmest Global Ocean Surface Temperatures on Record for July: The planet’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest . . . → Read More: News roundup Two items drifting through my news feeds caught my attention today. One concerns a topic virtually certain to become an enormous, persistent problem for decades. The other has a much lower level of certainty attached, but carries an even greater potential for negative consequences. The certain one is water issues, as highlighted in Study: India . . . → Read More: Water and bubbles Large Antarctic glacier thinning 4 times faster than it was 10 years ago: “Nothing in the natural world is lost at an accelerating exponential rat A BBC story on the new study, “The spatial and temporal evolution of Pine Island Glacier thinning, 1995 – 2006,” (subs. req’d) explains: Calculations based on the rate of melting . . . → Read More: News roundup |
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