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Carbon capture and sequestration the old fashioned way

For The Natural Resources Council of Maine The Hellisheiði Power Station in Iceland. Wikipedia Last week the mainstream media and many of the social media outlets hailed the experiment in Iceland that...

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Ecology, Loss, and Triage

Amazonia burning. NASA Earth Observatory 2014 “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.” –Anne Frank On Sunday, 30 April 2017, the New York Times reported that global marine...

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The Long Game: Facing Reality in the Environmental Century

Golfing while the mountains burn. Photo from Beacon Rock Golf Course. Personally, I would rate the likelihood of staying under two degrees of warming as under 10 percent. – Michael Oppenheimer 2017 Do...

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On the survival of civilization – Earth Day 2020

Ozone depletion over the Arctic. NASA Earth Observatory An Australian NGO has been following the anthropogenic decimation of our planet for the past few years. The group, known as The Commission For...

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The false summit of climate change progress

Chart by CarbonBrief based on UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2020 The world will likely exceed 1.5˚C between 2026 and 2042 in scenarios where emissions are not rapidly reduced, with a central estimate of...

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Climate change messes with Texas

“…it’s complete ignorance to suggest severe winters prove the planet isn’t warming.” – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres The discussion around the catastrophe in Texas is politically informative...

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Updates from the news #8

Updates from the news #8 – 9 October 2023 Second to the stunning analysis of global September heat is the powerful Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Francis on the urgency of addressing climate change....

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Updates from the news #10; 23 October 2023

Bill McKibben points out that U.S. development of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) will be a major carbon bomb. More than two dozen new or expansion LNG projects are under construction or consideration....

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Updates from the news #12; 13 November

Insanity fact #3,787. Fossil fuel expansion is projected to be gobsmackingly mindboggling enormous in the coming years. The U.S., Brazil, and Saudi Arabia plan major increases in oil production....

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First pass review of the NCA5

The USGCRP released the National Climate Assessment Five on Wednesday 15 November. I recorded a few initial impressions for my upper division course in Climate Change Biology, BSC3307C. You can view...

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