Maybe it’s about time for a reminder about climate volatility. Recently I browsed a set of satellite photos which illustrate the extraordinary pressure we are putting on our planet, evidenced by climate volatility. The first two show the wasting if the Humbolt glacier, the third shows snow covering the southern USA. (Click the images to …
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Category:Climate Change
The Day After Tomorrow is today …
The thickness of Arctic sea ice “plummeted” last winter, thinning by as much as one-fifth in some regions, satellite data has revealed. The team from University College London say that the results provided the first definitive proof that the overall volume of Arctic ice is decreasing. The findings have been published in the journal Geophysical …
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Climate change destroying nature.
Amphibian populations at Yellowstone, the world’s oldest national park, are in steep decline according to a major study reported in the journal PNAS. The authors link this to the drying out of wetlands where the animals live and breed, which is in turn being driven by long-term climate change. Visitors flock to Yellowstone to see …
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Alaskan village melting away …
It may be a small village at only 400 people (though still bigger than our local village of Ardattin), but it must hurt to feel your home melting away under your feet at climate volatility erodes your home. The Alaskan village of Newtok is melting away.
Too much hot air …
A cute little statistic The 23 million residents of the US state of Texas emit more carbon dioxide than the entire population of sub-Saharan Africa, which is 720 million people.
Climate counts scorecard
A cute website that scores (US) companies on their commitment to fighting climate change. Focuses on the big companies. ClimateCounts.org
The Food We Waste
Its not just transport and packaging that are destroying the natural world, but our waste of food. An extensive UK study by WRAP analysed garbage of over 2,000 households to identify the food we waste. The results are revealing. The sheer volume of food thrown away by all types of people is embarrassing: over £ …
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The Day After Tomorrow, today
These pictures show the disintegration of an Antarctic ice shelf in the middle of (southern hemisphere) winter. This is exactly the kind of sensational news that the melodramatic movie “The Day After Tomorrow” portrayed. Another signal from nature to change our behaviour. Come on – eat less, travel less, slow down – help the world …
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G8 co2 goals – a lot of hot air?
So the G8 is talking about the cost of food and oil. And they’ve proclaimed that they will cut carbon emissions in half. This is a good start and if nothing else the propaganda will encourage people, businesses and politics to accelerate conversion to low energy-high value technology. Its good to see the US beginning …
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Another giant is waking up to the urgency of biosphere preservation – IEA
The International Energy Agency is finally beginning to realise that consumption patterns and technology must change if we are to avoid a natural catastrophe. The IEA announced that $ 45,000,000,000,000 (trillion) must be spent to change the pattern of consumption of fossil fuels. It is a long overdue public recognition only catalysed by the current …
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