Blogging the End of the World™
From Calculated Risk: How about this headline from Rex Nutting at MarketWatch: Biggest drop in industrial output since VE Day Industrial production is down 13.3% since the recession began in December 2007, the largest percentage decline since the end of World War II. … Factory output has fallen 15.7% during the recession, also the largest […]
World’s cruise industry sailing rough waters Cruise operators are desperately trying to attract passengers for 2009, slashing prices, offering last-minute deals, two-for-one pricing, shorter cruises, family packages in which children sail free, and home port cruising which avoids the cost of an airfare to reach an exotic departure port. Norwegian Cruise Line last month announced […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Overfishing will wipe out the breeding population of Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the ocean’s largest and fastest predators, in three years unless catches are dramatically reduced, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday. As European fishing fleets prepare to begin the two-month Mediterranean fishing season on Wednesday, WWF said its analysis showed […]
Guardian poll reveals almost nine out of 10 climate experts do not believe current political efforts will keep warming below 2C David Adam, environment correspondentThe Guardian, Tuesday 14 April 2009 Almost nine out of 10 climate scientists do not believe political efforts to restrict global warming to 2C will succeed, a Guardian poll reveals today. […]
From Climate Progress: Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness — the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived there, [scientists] say. That’s the subhead on a stunning L.A. Times piece, “What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia,” which opens starkly: Reporting from The Murray-Darling Basin, […]
By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Illegal poaching has escalated to such a degree in Zimbabwe that some rhinos there are now under round-the-clock armed protection, Discovery News has learned from conservationists who are attempting to defeat poachers equipped with automatic machine guns and ammunition belts. See footage of the protected rhinos here. “We are losing […]
From Climate Progress: While Newsweek is wandering off into pseudoscientific climate denial, Time continues to do the best science-based global warming coverage of any major national magazine. I don’t spend a lot of time on species extinction here, since so many others do such a great job on that subject. But the cover story, “The […]
Tom Moyer, one of Portland’s most successful real estate developers, will halt work Monday on his 32-floor tower now under construction in downtown Portland. Moyer’s decision to pull 350 workers off the Park Avenue West is a stunning sign that no city, no person and no block is spared from this recession. Moyer is one […]
Bolivia accounts for a tiny fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions. But it will soon be paying a disproportionately high price for a major consequence of global warming: the rapid loss of glaciers and a subsequent decline in vital water supplies. By Carolyn Kormann Earlier this year, the World Bank released yet another in a […]
“Leatherback turtles are ancient creatures with a modern problem: Plastic.” A new study has looked at “necropsy reports of more than 400 leatherback” turtles and found that about 1/3 of them had plastic in their digestive system. They’re not saying it was the immediate cause of death, but as Mike James, a marine biologist […]
