global warming

Antarctica Under Siege and XR Takes a Radical Turn

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.” (“Red Alert in Antarctica: The Year Rapid Dramatic Change Hit Climate Scientists Like a “Punch in the Guts“, The Guardian, December 30, 3023.) Antarctic sea ice cover […]
The post Antarctica Under Siege and XR Takes a Radical Turn first appeared on Dissident Voice.

Alaska’s Scary Orange Rivers

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 warmer than the global average, and permafrost that’s been around since before humans sat round crackling cave fires is rapidly melting. Eons of frozen stuff […]
The post Alaska’s Scary Orange Rivers first appeared on Dissident Voice.

Washington State Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Using Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers 

Proposed Washington state legislation legislation would radically alter the state's Clean Air Act, and would ban gasoline-powered and diesel-powered landscaping and other outdoor equipment for "contributing to climate change." If a resident violates the law, they could face up to a year in jail and/or a hefty fine.

COP28’s Unrealistic Tripling of Nuclear Power

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 adopted proposals has become something 0f an inside joke. The most recent conference, COP28, embraced nuclear power as a godsend challenging climate change. “Triple Nuclear […]

Climate Change: The Unsettled Science – Part 1

Iain Davis At the recent 28th Conference of Parties (COP28), convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the British aristocrat, political lobbyist and climate activist, King Charles III, said: I have spent a large proportion of my life trying to warn of the existential threats facing us over global warming, climate change and biodiversity …

False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28

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 how a worthless activity, caked (oiled?) with appropriately chosen words, can actually provide assurance that something worthwhile was done.  Along the way, there are always […]