Greenland Cascading 30 Million Tons Per Hour
Facing Future.tv recently conducted an interview about spooky new developments in Greenland. The ice sheet is cascading/gushing at unheard of rates never dreamed possible at this stage of global warming,…
Facing Future.tv recently conducted an interview about spooky new developments in Greenland. The ice sheet is cascading/gushing at unheard of rates never dreamed possible at this stage of global warming,…
Antarctica, the massive continent of ice, the size of the continental US and Mexico combined, is breaking apart more and more as a recent scientific expedition discovered unambiguous signals of…
For the decades I've spent as a belligerent, anarchical, front-line, direct-action tree-hugging rabble-rouser, I’ve watched discussions in the conventionally structured, due-process oriented, charitable status-guarding, foundation-funded movement evolve through "official narrative"…
Thirty-two coastal cities could face severe flooding due to land subsidence and rising sea levels, according to a recent study published in Nature. An ABC News report (Coastal US cities…
Vulnerable dwellers were disproportionately affected by recent wildfires in Colombia’s capital. As climate change exacerbates El Niño’s impact, affected families regroup amid the threat of additional blazes. “Don’t worry I…
Last month, February 2024, was the world's warmest February in modern times, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a…
Women in rural areas suffer substantially greater economic losses from the impacts of climate breakdown than men in developing countries, finds a new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization.…
On this planet of ours, it almost doesn’t matter who’s right and who’s wrong when it comes to our wars. Actually, let me correct that thought slightly: it certainly does…
North Atlantic Ocean temperature is on a red-hot streak. New research finds ocean temperatures… “have now smashed previous heat records for at least seven years in a row.” (Source: Lijing…
Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report. An ABC News report (Climate change could unearth, disturb Cold…
Chicago becomes the latest U.S. city to sue the oil industry over climate crisis. The U.S. city has joined several other cities and states in suing oil companies. The effort…
In the High Arctic scientists discovered million-year-old methane (CH4) trapped under some of the world’s mightiest glaciers detected via unprecedented groundwater springs. Analyses of 123 springs found CH4 in all…
Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption, warns a new study (Critical transitions in…
We live in a world of dangerous, deadly extremes. Record-breaking heat waves, intense drought, stronger hurricanes, unprecedented flash flooding. No corner of the planet will be spared the wrath of human-caused…
In the battle to slow global warming, January was the hottest month on record according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday, 15 February 2024. Global precipitation reached a…
The fire is bearing down on the town. The authorities have ordered an emergency evacuation; from their big picture perspective everybody has to get out quickly and even then,…
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations chief warned Tuesday that climate chaos and food crises are increasing threats to global peace, telling a high-level UN meeting that climate disasters imperil food…
During several recent movements of farmers, particularly in Europe, sometimes a serious misunderstanding has been created, or is sought to be created, that what is needed for protecting farmers’ livelihoods…
Large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is more likely and closer than before caused by an abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents, finds a new study. The study…
What if Arctic sea ice melts? All of it… during the summer! According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), over the past three decades the oldest, thickest ice…
India's climate strategies centre on three key pillars when it comes to addressing the issues of climate change and sustainable development. These are Mission Lifestyle for Environment, Green Credit Initiative…
Over the course of two days, deadly forest fires engulfed in flames the port city of Viña del Mar and the municipalities of Quilpué, Limache and Villa Alemana in Chile’s…
For the first time, world temperature has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, reports the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), European Union's climate service. This year-long breach is no major…
“… but they can be sure that they won't be recorded for their crimes in history -- because there won't be any history” (Noam Chomsky, 2023, in a letter to…
Economics is based on war against nature and theft from working people Economics sanctifies war against nature to create wealth and distribute it inequitably between people and nations. Economics encourages…
In December, the New York Times reported that “Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000.” (Though it’s not the Times’s style, that latter…
Across the entire breadth of the Northern Hemisphere Arctic permafrost is rapidly melting. Nobody knows what strange pathogen is going to pop out from within tons upon tons of permafrost…
The ultimate consequences of global warming are difficult to truly understand by the public, policymakers and by pretty much everybody. In their hearts, they do not want to believe it’ll…
At least 66 million people in the U.S. were under winter weather alerts Thursday, as dangerously cold and icy conditions continue to pose risks — including in Oregon, where three…
On October 23, 2023 when many in India was busy celebrating ‘victory’ (Bijaya Dashami) or worshipping weapons (Ayudh) title of one research paper published in NATURE: Climate Change was rather…
One of the most worrying manifestations of climate change relates to the higher possibility of more people being exposed to more destructive and torrential water flows. India with its record…
Fossil fuel or no-fossil fuel – what to do? Let mercury rise or drop it down – how far the mercury’s liberty should go? To the people, the answers are…
Natural disasters including destructive thunderstorms and devastating earthquakes in 2023 cost the world around $250 billion in damages as climate change churned up dangerous and deadly weather across the globe,…
Three years ago, 15,000 scientists declared a climate emergency by signing onto a State of the Climate Report. That signing led to annual updates, for example, the most recent version:…
by Richard Heinberg and J. David Hughes The numbers are in. Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin. The planet is now 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer than it was before…
“… but they can be sure that they won't be recorded for their crimes in history -- because there won't be any history” (Noam Chomsky, 2023) The macabre criminality of…
2023 was the warmest year recorded in 173 years of record-keeping, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (CCCS) confirmed Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The global average temperature for 2023 was…
The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiraling into a new superheated era will be “passed for all practical purposes” during 2024, the man known as the godfather…
2023 was the year that global warming went gobsmackingly bananas off the chart. On top of a building major El Niño, warming of both oceans and atmosphere seemed to accelerate…
Cultivating temperate fruits, especially apples, plays a crucial role in shaping the economic landscape of India's hill states like Himachal Pradesh and the hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir. These…
Antarctica has finally succumbed to rapid climate change. This past year (2023) brought changes to the icy continent that left climate scientists feeling a “punch in the gut.” (Source: Red…
A platform of California Climate and Agriculture Network would move billions of dollars into the hands of farmers and ranchers willing to adopt regenerative food and farming systems. When it…
Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking about the utter, ongoing devastation of Gaza.) I mean,…
India and China refrained from signing the Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge, a document endorsed by 123 nations in the COP28 held in UAE in the first half of…
India refrained from signing the Declaration on Climate and Health, a document that was endorsed by 123 nations in the COP28 held in UAE in the first half of December…
Global warming can add one more notch to its gun belt. The rapid onset of global warming is turning Alaska’s wilderness rivers orange. Global warming impacts Arctic temperatures 2-4 times…
Adam Aron has written an ambitious book, one he intends to be the book on the subject of the climate crisis; and he has succeeded in many ways, especially for…
Weather-induced Disaster Displacement (WiDD) will be disruptive, leading to migration in Southeast Asia and accompanying climate disruption and global warming. Due to humankind’s insistence on unsustainable development and rising greenhouse…
With increasing realization that the earth’s basic life-nurturing conditions are threatened by man-made factors, the world has responded in a number of ways ranging from climate change commitments to treaties…
UN climate conferences since 1992 have failed to follow thru with results, as CO2 emissions continue higher and higher with every passing year. In fact, post climate conference impact of…
Economic and social inequalities have historically been a very important aspect of injustice, but in addition these have also resulted in some other important distortions which are not so well…
“Without major action to reduce emissions, global temperature is on track to rise by 2.5°C to 4.5°C by 2100”.(NASA 2023) “We Will Not Sign Our Own Death Warrant” (a delegate…
The planet is facing multiple severe challenges that require our immediate attention. Putting an end to the dirty and suffocating fossil fuel emissions may be the most significant global priority,…
A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found that 37% of Americans now feel that…
Drawing from U.S. case law and legislation, an argument for climate action centered on birthright equity is building momentum. Planet Earth is in crisis. Climate change is accelerating, biodiversity is…
About 3.2 million Americans have moved due to the mounting risk of flooding, the First Street Foundation (FSF), a nonprofit research group, said in a report that focuses on so-called "climate abandonment…
The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten. It shows…
Northern Greenland is under attack by global warming at the same time as delegates to COP28 heap praise on a purported landmark deal to transition out of fossil fuels but…
The global climate agreement that emerged from Dubai is literally meaningless—and potentially meaningful. Now it's up to us. As North America slept, delegates from around the world concluded the global…
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed on 13 December 2023 with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the…
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