Blogging the End of the World™
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of ClimateWireAugust 12, 2010 UNITED NATIONS — A string of devastating natural disasters many are attributing to climate change has sent food prices on a roller coaster ride, leading to fears of a wave of climate-induced food price shocks of the sort that sparked rioting in the developing world two years ago. […]
By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.comAugust 12, 2010 Orangutan encounter rates have fallen six-fold in Borneo over the past 150 years, report researchers writing in the journal PLoS One. Erik Meijaard, an ecologist with People and Nature Consulting International, and colleagues compared present-day encounter rates with collection rates from naturalists working in the mid-19th Century. They […]
The man who coined the term “global warming” looks back at 35 years of climate change. By ELIZABETH DICKINSON AUGUST 3, 2010 Wallace Broecker has written some 460 academic papers in his half-century-long career as a geologist. But this week, everyone seems to remember just one of them: an Aug. 8, 1975, paper in Science […]
By MIKE CAMPBELL, mcampbell@adn.com Published: August 11th, 2010 01:39 AM The worst return of red salmon to the Russian River in 33 years has convinced Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists to shutter the popular sport fishery the rest of the season and try to unravel how one of Alaska’s most consistent fisheries suddenly […]
By Paul Rioux, The Times-Picayune Sunday, August 08, 2010, 10:00 AM More than three weeks after BP capped its gushing oil well, skimming operations have all but stopped and federal scientists say just a quarter of the oil remains in the Gulf of Mexico. But wildlife officials are rounding up more oiled birds than ever […]
By Staff WritersAug 11, 2010 Zdorovie, Russia (AFP) — Armed with just spades and sand from a nearby river, villagers in Zdorovie near Moscow joined firefighters to save their homes from flames engulfing an adjoining forest. Zdorovie, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Moscow, had been spared from wildfires that enveloped western Russia for […]
By LAUREN MORELLO of ClimateWireAugust 10, 2010 For generations, Yupik and Inupiat hunters have depended on the Pacific walrus. They ate the walrus’ meat and whittled its bones into tools. Walrus skin covered their boats, and walrus intestines, stitched into raincoats, covered their backs. Today, the walrus is still an important part of the subsistence […]
How: Gold. Tax cuts. Debts. Wars. Fat Cats. Class gap. No fiscal discipline. By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2010, 12:45 a.m. EDT ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — “How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy.” Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote […]
It was Mike Ruppert who first woke up Desdemona to the Peak Oil story. Des had read the famous Campbell and Laherrère paper, “The End of Cheap Oil” in 1998, but the issue seemed more distant than global warming and the accelerating destruction of the biosphere. But Mike Ruppert had a doozy of a conspiracy […]
By Diana Gregor6 August 2010 Climate change is provoking mass human migration. According to scientists, 50 million people worldwide will be displaced this year because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding, and other severe environmental changes. A joint study by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and […]
