“It is criminality beyond any language, concepts or laws that we presently have. It’s criminality that places the entire human enterprise at risk. And we simply have not been able to confront inaction that allows the entire human enterprise to slip into catastrophic failure. It really does beggar the imagination to understand why, given the [...]

Most climate change forecasts focus on the period of crisis that will occur over the next 90 years, dropping off at that arbitrary endpoint, the year 2100. Partly, this arises out of the lack of solid data. After all, we can forecast the climate using elaborate climate models, but attempting to forecast how human beings [...]

The Lovelockian nightmare scenario where our greenhouse gas emissions trigger a disasterous and rapid release of methane from the Arctic permafrost may have already begun in earnest. According to new reearch from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a vast region of methane stores has begun to destabilize in the shallow seas off the Siberian coast, [...]

We are dumb all over…and maybe a little ugly on the side. - Frank Zappa This blog has intentionally steered away from the day-to-day controversies that bubble up in the climate change debate. This is not because that debate itself is unimportant in awakening the public and our leaders to the threat of global warming. It certainly [...]

The Greatest Depression The so-called Great Recession that has dogged the world for the past two years has reminded us just how quickly our well-laid plans can be turned upside down when economic forces turn ugly. Suddenly, our jobs are at risk, our homes threatened and our retirement savings halved. For millions of families in the [...]