As did the Dodo, so shall we go-go
A methane burst from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could happen at any time and needs only a trigger. That’s the conclusion of the world’s leading research scientist in that region – Natalia Shakhova. On 5th June Shakhova and
Global Warming and Climate Change have two well known culprits : Energy and Transport. But there are two more co-conspirators contributing catastrophically to the crisis. Those partners are Land Use and Intensive Livestock Farming. A new book by Mike
The consequences of the disappearance of sea ice from the Arctic ocean, however briefly, at the end of a summer melt season some time in the not too distant future, are potentially very ominous for the way we organize our human socioeconomic structures today.
The Great Ocean Conveyor, The Thermohaline Circulation, The Gulf Stream, AMOC…all terms we hear quite a lot these days. And they all seem to be linked with climate change, or even abrupt climate change according to some. The circulation
Climate and Environmental Crisis. That’s the message of a new report published this week by the Institute of Public Policy Research in the UK. The report doesn’t pull many punches in its description of our environmental predicament. This week
NOAA released their 2018 Arctic Report Card back in December with some fairly stark warnings about the status of that region. Since then we’ve had further updates suggesting that this year could be one of the most precarious for
Despite a dramatic reduction in fertility rates since 1950, our global population continues to rise. This week we discover the reason for that apparent contradiction. We also consider one of the biggest implications of our increased numbers, and have
It turns out that while the Arctic and Greenland get most of the press attention partly because of their proximity to Canada and the United States, it’s actually Antarctica all the way at the other end of the globe
Climate change is a daily reality up in Greenland. This week we look at the winners and losers in this global adaptation challenge and get a glimpse of what’s coming our way in the next few years.
For those who watched the original of this video, this is a revision to correct an error I made in the first version. I stated that there were 80 Billion livestock animals on earth. In fact the figure is