By Tamino, Open Mind. With the bulk of the fluctuations due to natural factors removed, the continued course of global warming since 1979 is undeniable. Five different measures of the eath surface and lower-atmosphere temperatures agree on this, and the last two years (2009 and 2010) were the two hottest.
Continue reading →By Nnimmo Bassey and staff, Friends of the Earth International via Common Dreams. The UN climate talks in Durban take the world a step back by undermining an already inadequate system. The developing countries’ promised reductions are greater than those of the industrialized world, which is responsible for 75 percent of the total human emissions in the atmosphere. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Joshua S. Hill, Planet Save. The year 2010 saw an unusually high melting season in Greenland which subsequently caused the bedrock of the island to lose 100 billion tonnes of ice and uplift by as much as 20 millimetres.
Continue reading →By Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS. Bangkok is paying the price of ignoring warnings over many years concerning its climate vulnerability and the incapacity of its soggy foundations to handle flooding.
Continue reading →By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (1990), publishers Gollancz (UK), Workman (US) | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Excerpt from Good Omens: a prescient and hilarious book about the coming end times. This excerpt describes being pulled over by an extraterrestrial.
Continue reading →By Steve Connor, The Independent. From the Arctic sea to the Antarctican ice shelves, the frozen “cryosphere” is showing the unequivocal signs of climate change.
Continue reading →By Patrick Lynch, NASA | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The calving of a huge iceberg at Pine Island Glacier is being closely watched by scientists, who consider it to be the largest source of uncertainty in global sea-level rise projections.
Continue reading →By Staff, Prensa Latina. Bangkok, a city of almost 12 million is flooded in 20 percent of its area, mainly those districts to the north, from which 50,000 people have been evacuated.
Continue reading →By Staff, Venezuela Analysis. Central America has been suffering heavy human and economic losses due to several weeks of torrential rains that are expected to continue. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are heading a worldwide campaign to request help with the disaster.
Continue reading →By Dauna Coulter, NASA Science News. The weather in the USA has been positively wild. NASA climatologist Bill Patzert blames this on a different suspect: La Nada.
Continue reading →By Tim Johnson, McClatchy. Mexico’s native varieties of corn are under peril from economics and genetic contamination, potentially depriving humans of a crucial resource.
Continue reading →By Eduardo Galeano, Rebelion | Yes! Magazine. “Human rights and the rights of Nature are two names of the same dignity.” – Eduardo Galeano. (English | Spanish)
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