Tag Archives: Stephen Leahy

Methane from fracking could trigger irreversible* change

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Rick Altman

* UPDATE: With thanks to fellow-blogger Pendantry for alerting me to this video of Guy McPherson (University of Arizona), note that research published in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2009 concluded climate change is … Continue reading →

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We have the cure for our ailing planet…

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Rick Altman

…so can we please use it? Here reproduced in full, with the kind permission of the author, is international environmental journalist Stephen Leahy’s prescription to save us all from unintended ecocide – it’s called renewable energy. ————– For an Ailing … Continue reading →

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