Blogging the End of the World™
By Peter Gwynne, Guest Columnist, Insidescience.org21 May 2014 (Inside Science) – “The central fact is that, after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the Earth seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. […]
By Chris Martenson21 May 2014 (PeakProsperity.com) – The US shale oil “miracle” has about as much believability left as Jimmy Swaggart. Just today, we learned that the EIA has placed a hefty downward revision on its estimate of the amount of recoverable oil in the #1 shale reserve in the US, the Monterey in California. […]
By Louis Sahagun19 May 2014 (Los Angeles Times) – The Central Valley’s 7 million acres of irrigated farmland are best known as the richest food-producing region in the world. But a new study by UC Davis researchers forecasts severe socioeconomic impacts ahead in the area where many of the nation’s fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables […]
By Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners20 May 2014 (TIME) – To ignore climate change is to abuse the moral call to care for the environment, and generations to come will suffer Some of the most inspiring words in the entire Bible are found in the opening pages of Genesis. Here we are told that humans […]
By Michael Jon Jensen23 May 2014 (Facebook) – An astonishing speech from YesMan Mike Bonnano as commencement speaker at his alma mater, Reed College — including a perfect YesMan event embedded within it. Worth the 25 mins of listening. So smart, so funny. “Graduating Reed College students and their parents gave a standing ovation Monday […]
By Terry Macalister 21 May 2014 (theguardian.com) – BP last night mounted a last ditch attempt to limit the costs of its settlement for the victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill by lodging an appeal to the US supreme court to make a final ruling. Earlier this week the British oil […]
By Aida Cerkez and Jovana Gec21 May 2014 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (Associated Press) – Floodwaters receded Wednesday in Bosnia and Serbia, just enough to reveal the next shock: recovery from the historic flood will probably cost billions of euros that neither of the countries has. Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija said the flood affected 23,000 square […]
21 May 2014 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Mountaineering tourism in Nepal faces a threat from global warming as melting glaciers feed the risk of more deadly disasters such as the avalanche on Mount Everest that killed 16 people last month, scientists said on Tuesday. More than 2,000 foreign mountaineers flock to the Himalayan nation sandwiched […]
20 May 2014 (UCS) – The growing consequences of climate change are putting many of the country’s most iconic and historic sites at risk. From Ellis Island to the Everglades, Cape Canaveral to California’s César Chávez National Monument, these sites symbolize values that unite all Americans — patriotism, freedom, democracy, and more — and together […]
By Damian Carrington 19 May 2014 (theguardian.com) – Antarctica is shedding 160 billion tonnes a year of ice into the ocean, twice the amount of a few years ago, according to new satellite observations. The ice loss is adding to the rising sea levels driven by climate change and even east Antarctica is now losing […]
