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Category Archives: Mass Extinctions
Merry Christmas Mr Trump
Posted in Anthropocene, Civilisation, Collapse, Insanity, Mass Extinctions, Politics, Populism
Tagged Disarmament, Dissaster, Donald Trump, Nuclear Weapons
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Troubling times indeed
This mini-post has been prompted by a recent post on LearningFromDogs.com, entitled Troubling Times. I often wish I were not so well-informed because, whereas power without knowledge is very dangerous, knowledge without power is very frustrating. However, as Leonardo Di … Continue reading
The two most terrifying graphs ever?
2016 is on track to be the warmest year on planet Earth since reliable records have been kept; and comes at the end of the warmest ever decade. Furthermore, if and when the World’s under-developed economies get their industrial pollution … Continue reading
Will it matter 100 years from now?
Here in the UK, I have spent a lot of time trying to decide how to vote in the Referendum on our membership of the EU. Working away from home, I had to apply for a postal vote. Having sent … Continue reading
From Noah to Nordhaus via Inhofe
US Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is a climate change sceptic primarily because he believes God has promised not to flood the Earth again; and the rainbow in the sky tells him it must be true. Such ideologically-driven wilful blindness is … Continue reading
Posted in Civilisation, Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Mass Extinctions, Palaeoclimatology, Psychology
Tagged Antarctica, Archaeology, Ark, Comet, glaciers, Gobekli Tepe, Graham Hancock, History, James Inhofe, James Painter, Noah, Sphinx, Stephan Lewandowsky, William Nordhaus, Younger Dryas
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Peak carbon by 2025 or mass extinction of species
I have been looking back at some of my earliest posts on this blog; and have decided that now would be a good time to pull together some of the key points I have highlighted over the years – regarding … Continue reading
Why the World Bank says we must decarbonise now
Must the World Bank now be added to the supposed list of environmentally-alarmist institutions seeking to use the perceived threat of climate change as a pretext for imposing global authoritarian government via the United Nations? This is essentially the position … Continue reading
A summary of the ‘Climate Departure’ research of Mora et al.
The video below contains a very compelling 22-minute summary of an impressive array of work, widely reported in the World’s newspapers this week. The research team, based in the Geography Department at the University of Hawaii, was led by Associate … Continue reading
The radiating face of Gaia
I decided that my review of The Revenge of Gaia, as published by James Lovelock in 2006, was dragging on a bit, so have decided to finish it off. This is therefore the fourth and final part (and thus longer … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Energy Crisis, Environment, James Hansen, Mass Extinctions
Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, Bjorn Lomborg, Bob Geldof, Gaia, Gaia Hypothesis, George Monbiot, James Lovelock, Mark Lynas, Nuclear Energy, perception, Stewart Brand, the Enlightenment, The Revenge of Gaia, Tom Blees, Writing on the wall
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I think it is time to start dealing with reality
The text below is reproduced from a comment I have just posted on the Climate Slate website. The comment itself was prompted by my having recently watched the movie ‘Chasing Ice’, conceived and produced by James Balog and Jeff Orlowski. … Continue reading
