It has been a hot year. The average temperature in Britain for 2006 was higher than at any time since records began in 1659. Globally, it looks set to be the sixth hottest year on record. The signs during the past 12 months have been all around us. Little winter snow in the Alpine ski […]
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Climate Change Melts Kilimanjaro’s Snows
NARO MORU, Kenya – Rivers of ice at the Equator – foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th – are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs. From mile-high Naro Moru, villagers have watched year by year as the great glaciers of Mount Kenya, […]
Science Teachers Stoke the Fires of Global Warming
Since the 1990s, when we first started becoming aware of the threat of global warming, the rate at which humans have been pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels has more than doubled. And, according to a team of Australian researchers, it’s going up every year. Last year, about 7.85 billion tons […]
Straddling Solutions and Survivalism
Those of you that have heard me talk before will be relieved to know I’m not going to go through a catalogue of new impacts or weather events like the 1-in-200-year rainstorm this spring that left $100 million in damages in three mid-Atlantic states. Or the startling jump in polar bear mortality the USGS reported […]
African nomads to be first people wiped out by climate change
Kenya’s herdsmen are facing extinction as global warming destroys their lands They are dubbed the ‘climate canaries’ – the people destined to become the first victims of world climate change. And as government ministers sit down in Nairobi at this weekend’s UN Climate Conference, the people most likely to be wiped out by devastating global […]
If Global Warming Is An “Emergency” Then Let’s Act Like It’s An Emergency
Why I Helped Occupy the Entrance to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration On Monday, October 23rd, at exactly 8 a.m., a dozen global warming activists – some arriving on foot, some in a rented truck – converged outside of Washington, D.C., and promptly occupied a main entrance to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, […]
Get Real
Behind the hue and cry over the Kyoto climate change treaty—the outrage at the United States for not signing on and the blaming of India and China for fueling their rapid growth with fossil fuels—is one nagging but rarely reported reality: even if every nation in the world complied to the hilt, it would hardly […]
Why we need to worry about global warming, now
With climate-related changes occurring faster than expected, scientists say we have 10 years to slash carbon fuel use — or else In 1995, a panel of the world’s leading climate scientists declared that unless humanity cuts its use of coal and oil by 70 percent toward the end of this century, the world will suffer […]
We Ignore the U.N. Reports at Our Own Peril and Fiddle as the Earth Burns
A Commentary and Rant by Captain Paul Watson Every day we are assaulted by politicians and some media attacking us for being alarmists and accusing us of exaggerating the threats facing the environment and especially our concerns for biodiversity diminishment and human population growth. According to these voices of denial, the world is in great […]
Gore Says It Is Not Too Late to Combat Climate Change
2005 Global Environmental Citizen: The Honorable Al Gore Former vice president Al Gore delivered a speech about global warming upon accepting the Global Environmental Citizen Award from the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. The award was conferred on Oct. 21 in New York by Eric Chivian, MD, director of […]