by Robert Hunziker Insect abundance is plummeting with wild abandon, worldwide! Species evolve and go extinct as part of nature’s normal course over thousands and millions of years, but the current rate of devastation is… Read More
Science
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018
Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are growing at an accelerating pace this year, researchers said Wednesday, putting the world on track to face some of the most severe consequences of global warming sooner than expected. Scientists… Read More
‘Just a lot of alarmism’: Trump’s skepticism of climate science is echoed across GOP
Sen.-elect Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said falsely in the lead-up to her campaign that the Earth has started to cool, and argued inaccurately that scientists have not reached a consensus on climate change. In Florida,… Read More
David Attenborough Warns Of ‘Collapse Of Civilizations’ At U.N. Climate Meeting
David Attenborough, the naturalist and broadcaster, sounded a dire warning in a speech Monday to the U.N. climate conference in Poland. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat… Read More
Carbon Capture – Does it Work?
by Robert Hunziker Harken! Good news (maybe) “encouraging news” is a better description, as Negative Emissions Technology (“NET”) starts coming into focus. Conceptually, carbon removal or direct air capture removes CO2 from the atmosphere, which… Read More
Climate change report: Al Gore says Trump administration seeks to “bury” climate report by releasing it on Black Friday
Environmental groups and activists blasted the White House this week, saying it was trying to “bury” a long-awaited government report on climate change by releasing it on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Among those who spoke… Read More
Interior Secretary Zinke blames “environmental radicals” for California fires
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke blamed “environmental radicals” for the deadly wildfires in California, saying after he toured the damage from the Camp Fire that #environmentalists stop forest management practices that could have prevented the fires. “I… Read More
Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power casts shadow over UN environment conference
Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power in Brazil has cast a shadow over the first global environment conference since the ultra-nationalist was elected to lead the most biodiverse nation on Earth. Participants at the the UN… Read More