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Nothing Lasts Forever – Do the Math!

Nov 19

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Environment, Health | Comments off

By Michael Collins
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(Washington, DC 11/18)  Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. had some tough words for the oil giants at the organization’s events in the nation’s capital.   He announced to a packed house at the Warner Theater, “We’re going after the fossil fuel industry” for trying to wreck the future.  It’s that simple.  He argued that we have a choice.  Either we take on the oil giants and end their rapacious behavior or we find a way to change the laws of physics to accommodate the insanity of ongoing pollution in the face of calamitous outcomes.

Shell, Exxon, BP, and the others in the fossil fuel industry were portrayed as world killers, rogue corporations whose relentless pursuit of profits threatens the lives and culture of every human being on earth.

The 350.org Do the Math Tour started in Seattle on November 7.   The nationwide tour visits 21 cities across the country and culminates in Salt Lake City on December 3.   Yesterday’s presentation at the Warner Theater was followed by demonstration during which participants encircled the White House to remind President Barack Obama to hold fast on suspending work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The math is simple and painful in its implications: Read the rest of this entry »

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The Elephant in the Living Room

Aug 31

Posted by Jill in Big Money, Climate Change, Environment | Comments off

Historic Global Temperature

The elephant has grown so enormous that it is pressing against all four walls, the floor, and the ceiling of the living room.

All summer we have blasted through high temperature records, drought and fire in the Midwest, and heat waves on the East Coast followed by storms so destructive that they tear up the ozone layer. It’s been predicted for decades: rising temperatures, more rainfall on the coasts, less rainfall inland. Now it’s here and getting worse.

Dr. James Hansen, NASA climate scientist, has compared seasonal temperatures over the past three decades with those from the three decades before that. There was not much change in the temperature from the 1950s through 1970s. But in the 1980s, temperature started to creep up. And it increased more and more in the next two decades. Very high temperatures called “hot anomalies” occurred over just 0.1% to 0.2% of the globe from 1951 to 1981, but over the past several years, they
occurred over 10% of the globe. Dr. Hansen concluded that “the area covered by extreme hot anomalies will continue to increase in coming decades and that even more extreme outliers will occur.” Read the rest of this entry »

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NASA Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

Jul 27

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Enviroment | Comments off

NASA Earth July 24, 2012

Extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8 (left) and July 12 (left). Measurements from three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet had undergone thawing at or near the surface. In just a few days, the melting had dramatically accelerated and an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface had thawed by July 12. In the image, the areas classified as “probable melt” (light pink) correspond to those sites where at least one satellite detected surface melting. The areas classified as “melt” (dark pink) correspond to sites where two or three satellites detected surface melting. The satellites are measuring different physical properties at different scales and are passing over Greenland at different times. As a whole, they provide a picture of an extreme melt event about which scientists are very confident. Credit: Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI/NASA GSFC, and Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory
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