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Category Archives: Climate
An update on how we’re handling the climate crisis
Overpopulation is a problem, but it’s not the biggest problem. The biggest problems are: 1) serious inequity in terms of the emissions generated by the most wealthy and 2) serious incompetence and corruption on the part of governmental institutions – most of which are in thrall to those in (1) Continue reading
Ten new insights in climate science (Johan Rockström at #COP26)
We are on average, moving towards four degrees warming this century. And we haven’t been in a four-degree warmer world for the past four million years. So it’s not as if it’s a place we know very well. Johan Rockström … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Communication, Core thought, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, People, Strategy
Tagged Change, climate change, environment, Johan Rockström
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What happened at COP26? And what next?
COP26 summarised in a haiku:
In Pandora’s Box
Hope’s frosty note lay unread:
“Down pub getting drunk.” Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, News and politics, Strategy
Tagged AGW, climate change, COP26, crisis, emergency, Haiku, Hope, Pandora's Box
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George’s call to action, NOW
Originally posted on Bobbing Around:
You’ve got to read this call to action from George Monbiot. He starts with what appears to be a technological approach: replace fossil fuels with electric, and all will be well. Those who pay attention…
Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050
“Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050”: A thoroughly brilliant parody of the COPout26 farce.
The author of this text (not me BTW) deserves much kudos; our Glorious World Leaders, on the other hand, badly need to stop shovelling horseshit. Continue reading
No more “blah, blah, blah” – we need ACTION, NOW
It’s time for action. We have no more time for ‘blah, blah, blah’. Continue reading
‘The climate is always changing’: true, but not helpful
“When we already believe the world to be a certain way, then we interpret new experiences to fit with those beliefs, whether they actually do or not.” Thus spake Veritasium I had another post scheduled for today, but this one … Continue reading
From 1985: Warnings from Carl Sagan and Al Gore (Take Two)
Climate deniers will have a hard time explaining these to their grandchildren, the kids who are now woke to the disasters they’ve been served by blindness and greed. Astounding find by climatestate. Source: Climate Denial Crock of the Week I … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Core thought, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Reblogs, Science
Tagged AGW, Al Gore, Carl Sagan, climate change, cognitive dissonance
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One has to acknowledge that a box exists before being able to think outside it
Paul Handover of ‘Learning from Dogs’ pointed me to this important interview the other day. It stumbles and rambles a bit, but some interesting points are made, especially towards the end where the idea is raised that academia has been … Continue reading
Green Party 10-point climate plan
Blatantly stolen from the Green Party 10-point climate plan: This is what real climate ambition looks like The Green Party has been proposing radical and necessary action on climate change for the past three decades. We were talking about these … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Economics, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, News and politics, Strategy
Tagged climate, climate change, Green Party
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