That’s the word from a story at CommonDreams.org by John Atcheson (link to follow). On numerous occasions I’ve noted that the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2007 grossly understated the impacts of the warming. In Atcheson’s account, we get a very good explanation of why that happened and why it will [...]
A study came out yesterday from the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” that adds disturbing calibrations to our concerns about sea level rise. “Each degree of global warming may raise world sea levels by more than two meters, or more than six feet.” That’s the lead in The Daily Climate’s report on the [...]
The milestone noted above has long been anticipated–and feared. 400 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has not been seen on earth for at least three million years. It is yet another indication that human-driven climate change is proving relentless, ruthless, and–given the absence of concerted efforts to significantly slow emissions–likely to alter life [...]
A piece worth reading in Grist today puts into sharp and quick perspective just what the world is looking at with rising seas. Sea level rise is not a distant threat; worldwide, they’ve risen one and a half inches since 2000. Hey, folks, that is measurable rise in what should be a geologic time frame, [...]
Those were stunning words offered by President Obama yesterday: “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” But he has offered similar comments, if not quite as pointed, on climate change in the past. I won’t numb you by repeating [...]