Environment

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It has long puzzled scientists that the gradual ending of the last glacial maximum or ice age beginning about 20,000 before present, extending into the 13,000s, was interrupted in the 12,000s by another short period, of 1,200 years, of ice age. When that one receded, the earth […]

Environment

11 billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs

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By Joleah Lamb | (The Conversation) | – – There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific, according to our new research, which also found that contact with plastic can make corals more than 20 times more susceptible to disease. In our study, published today in Science, […]

Climate Change

No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Associated Press did a useful fact check of Trump’s bizarre assertions on climate change in the interview with his friend Piers Morgan. Since Trump is not good with reading books and the like, it may be helpful to reply to his falsehoods with graphs. TRUMP: […]

Climate Change

In the Age of Big Climate Change we have to stop Farting Carbon

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This past year is what the era of Big Climate Change looks like. We are only at the beginning of the massive changes we are making to our environment by farting 41 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (a heat-trapping gas) into our atmosphere every year, […]

Climate Change

Defying Trump, Multinational Companies going to 100% Green Energy in Droves

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By Frédéric Simon | EURACTIV.com | – – Renewables are becoming the energy source of choice for corporate electricity users, according to a new report by The Climate Group published in Davos on Tuesday (23 January), which shows a growing number of multinationals lining up to meet 100% of their power needs from green power. […]

Climate Change

European Parliament backs Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

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By Frédéric Simon | (EURACTIV.com) | – – Green lawmakers have hailed a “great victory for the climate” as a proposal to bring down to zero the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted in the atmosphere by 2050 received unexpected backing from the European Parliament last Wednesday (17 January). Plenary session week 3 […]

Climate Change

Washington State activists launch ‘Climate Countdown’ for Urgent Legislative Action

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Brandon Jordan | (Waging Nonviolence) | – – Climate Countdown activists rallied outside the Washington state capitol building in Olympia last week (Twitter / 350 Seattle / Alexandra Blakely) As Washington state senators prepared for the first legislative session of 2018 at the capitol building in Olympia yesterday, their traditional welcome ceremony was disrupted by […]

Climate Change

Not Fighting Climate Change cost $1.5 Trillion Last Year & it is only the Beginning

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By Mark Trahant | ( TrahantReports.com ) | – – The Trump administration, and its allies in Congress, are fighting a losing war. They continue to press forward for the development of oil, gas, coal, when the rest of the world understands the implication of that folly. Global warming is the most pressing issue for […]

Pentagon

Burn Pits and Toxins: Are 800 US Bases abroad Scofflaw Polluters?

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H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – My nephew, an Army veteran who spent most of his 20 plus years military service as an officer in South Korea, is now a civilian military contractor living on a base in Afghanistan. Our only conversation about US military pollution in South Korea was something of […]