Which is to say that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, has turned to its bluntest language in its most recent report, a 175 page summary of a major new study.  Let’s get started with this quote from the summary:  “Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in […]

Sounds Biblical, doesn’t it?  Sort of Old Testament, maybe.  But we’re moving quickly from mythos into the hard science of meteorology here.  The journal Science reports tornadoes now occur on fewer days per year, but on the days they do appear, watch out because dozens or more come acroppin’.  The net result?  Fewer days with twisters, but more […]

“This” being climate change. Klein, an intrepid thinker throughout her publishing career, has just published her latest:  “This Changes Everything: Captitalism Versus the Climate.” I have not read it–the book just came out–but I will be shortly.  Meantime, CommonDreams.org has an excerpt that contains her thesis. It’s worth a few minutes of your time. Here’s […]

Not what you wanted to hear, I know.  Not what any of us wanted to hear at a time when the warming is giving rising to ever greater numbers of extreme weather events.  But the bad news is unavoidable:  A record-shattering pace of carbon dioxide emissions took place last year.  In fact, so much heat-trapping […]

I’ve just had the privilege of watching “Disruption,” a documentary that is both emotionally moving and intellectually scintillating.  And, perhaps more important, it’s an enormously effective tool for bringing attention to the mobilization taking place worldwide for demonstrations slated for the twenty-first of this month.  It has just been released today.  Rather than read my […]