I was beyond surprised when Michael Mann blocked me on Twitter yesterday. Mann is the ubiquitous voice of climate change in the media, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University and pusher of the “hockey stick” analogy for the industrial-age rise of anthropogenic CO2. I have been fascinated by weather my whole life. As a child […]
This passage from the brilliant essay Facing Extinction by Catherine Ingram is the one that really gets to me. Ingram underscores the challenges of being around others who are in denial and the way we must each individually come to terms with this divide. But she also gives us a way out, a way to be in the world however […]
While the focus is on fossil fuels and CO2, the creeping danger is methane, which is 84x as powerful a greenhouse gas. A side-by-side comparison of the growth of these gases 1983-2021 leaves no doubt the trouble this planet faces in the near-term:
I just discovered a draft of the IPCC AR6 WG1 introduction that hasn’t been previously seen. For the first time, here it is for all to see.
i have friends who still believe that the science behind climate change research is a hoax. we are fucked. as…
Both books would have been better off in the landfill or recycled.
I agree, but there is nothing objective about any of this except to say that, objectively, humans need a viable…
It all boils down to this: too many humans using too many natural resources and producing too much pollution, including…
I love this so much! I am so tired of human supremacy attitudes! We are only one of the 10…
I concluded in 2019 that we cannot save ourselves: Therefore its not about saving ourselves, but how to deal with…
Please ask your master to let you go chase chippies.
In the very near future, self-aware artificial intelligence agents will probably do exactly what you’re suggesting, as soon as they…