Archive for the 'global warming' Category

We Are SO Going to Die

Posted by Brendan on June 27th, 2008 filed in climate change, extinction, global warming

North Pole Could be Ice-Free This Summer
There is no land at the North Pole, but as long as anyone has looked, it has remained a giant block of ice year-round. Scientists have been watching Arctic sea ice melt more and more each year. But each summer in recent years, the amount of ice [...]

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Wow.

Posted by Brendan on October 30th, 2007 filed in direct action, global warming

“Think about it: a 5,000-pound vehicle that gets 60 miles to the gallon and does zero to 60 in five seconds!”
Wow. read the whole thing. hat tip to Kos.
Goodwin leads me over to a red 2005 H3 Hummer that’s up on jacks, its mechanicals removed. He aims to use the turbine to turn the Hummer [...]

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Water, Water. Where?

Posted by Brendan on October 27th, 2007 filed in climate change, extinction, global warming

US Could See Water Shortage
When people talk about the problems associated with global warming, the conversation tends to focus on stronger storms, rising sea levels, and the loss of coastal cities. But one problem that seems to me to get short shrift is the impact on our water supply.
When weather patterns change in such [...]

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More Wooder

Posted by Brendan on October 16th, 2007 filed in Philadelphia, global warming, snow

Via Atrios, the NY Times looks into the drought in the Southeast.
For the better part of 18 months, cloudless blue skies and high temperatures have shriveled crops and bronzed lawns from North Carolina to Alabama, quietly creating what David E. Stooksbury, the state climatologist of Georgia, has dubbed “the Rodney Dangerfield of natural [...]

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Hitting the Fan

Posted by Brendan on October 8th, 2007 filed in climate change, collapse, extinction, global warming, just desserts

Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years
The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low, scientists said last night. Experts said they were “stunned” by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as [...]

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Blip-blap

Posted by Brendan on July 13th, 2007 filed in climate change, comics, global warming

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Too Little, Too Late

Posted by Brendan on March 2nd, 2007 filed in climate change, collapse, extinction, global warming

Back in the 1990s, I spent about a year as a door-to-door canvasser for Greenpeace. soliciting memberships and money. Back then, there was still a LOT of debate about global warming and human responsibility for the problem, but one phrase stood out for me: the “make it or break it decade”.
This is how scientists [...]

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Climate Change Concerts

Posted by Brendan on February 15th, 2007 filed in calling bullshit, climate change, global warming

Gore announces climate change concerts
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES -
Al Gore announced on Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi.
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The 24-hour event on July [...]

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Larry David, On Why He’s An Environmemntalist

Posted by Brendan on February 1st, 2007 filed in climate change, global warming, youtube

Whatever harm’s been done to the environment, and I know there’s been a lot, it never really affected me personally in any way. That is until a few months ago.
The first thing that happened is that I noticed something on my face. Which turned out to be a benign skin cancer. Which was caused by [...]

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Weather

Posted by Brendan on December 15th, 2006 filed in climate change, global warming

It’s about 44 degrees, and foggy.
A few degrees colder, and it would be snowing right now.
It SHOULD be snowing right now.
Tomorrow is December 15, and it’s going to be 61 degrees. That’s just wrong.

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