Climate change worst-case scenario now looks unrealistic
Global energy use patterns suggest some baseline assumptions about warming are too high. What remains is still a stiff challenge to humanity.
Climate change could cut fruit production by almost a third, study warns
Climate change is threatening the world’s fruit production with yields of grapes, bananas and soft fruit such as peaches at risk of plummeting by almost...Reposting: Mauri Pelto on Easton Glacier – 2012
On my first crowd-funded field trip with a science team, in 2012, I followed Mauri Pelton and his team up Easton Glacier in the Northern...
Feds back Bayer’s bid to undo $25M Monsanto verdict
The U.S. federal government filed an amicus brief Friday at the Ninth Circuit backing arguments made by Bayer AG, which is seeking to overturn a...Reposting: Jennifer Francis and Arctic Feedbacks – 2017
Jennifer Francis has made one of the most important contributions to climate science of the last decade with her observations of the “teleconnections” between arctic...
The Amazon has reached a tipping point where it has begun to ‘self-destruct’—But major reforestation could save it
"The precious Amazon is teetering on the edge of functional destruction and, with it, so are we," the editors of a leading scientific journal wrote....Reposting from 2014: Eric Rignot’s Chilling Interview – “The Fuse is Blown”
This is the interview that shocked a lot of people, – including me – as I was pulling my jaw off the floor in that...