Connecting the Dots

With a sudden change in climate, we simply will not have time to compensate for food production. Crops will suddenly fail and near global famine will set in quickly perhaps in months. [Read more →]

Tags: Analysis, Antarctica, Artic, Nature, Series, United States by Richard
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The last chance global warming summit for the most part was a failure. And listening to the inconsistency of the spin from each country on the outcome simply spells despair. [Read more →]

Tags: Analysis, Antarctica, Artic, Nature, Series, United States by Richard
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In some disaster movies there is an ingenious idiot that seems to bypass or disable some safety feature or failsafe causing a horrendous catastrophe. As with all good movies, they have their basis in reality, and in Copenhagen during the last chance climate summit we may have just seen that happen. [Read more →]

Tags: Antarctica, Artic, Denmark, Indonesia, International Politics, Nature, Unfortunate Realities, United Nations, United States by Richard
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Admittedly this could be rephrased for a ‘B’ movie titled “It came from the ice”, but we are not talking movies. What we are talking about are viruses and other biologicals that have been frozen in the ice thousands of years and are now melting out from global warming. The biggest concern is we may have no natural resistance to them. [Read more →]

Tags: Antarctica, Artic, Health, Nature by Richard
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If there is anything that is constant about global warming, it is the phrase that ‘global warming events are occurring faster than worst case scenario.’ The reason for this is we are rapidly approaching the final tipping point, or we may have even past it and not yet figured it out. [Read more →]

Tags: Artic, Greenland, Japan, Nature, United States by Richard
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As the earth continues to warm we start to pass tipping points in different parts of the world. At some point not too long from now we will pass the final tipping point that will set off rapid and major changes all with undesirable consequences. [Read more →]

Tags: Antarctica, Artic, China, Greenland, Nature, Thailand, United States by Richard
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It has not exactly been front page news, but the now open waters of the arctic that are a direct result of global warming are becoming a bit of a territory issue. If there is any sure fire thing that can lead to war, it is a dispute over real-estate. Planting a Russian flag in the sea bed at the north pole seems to say “MINE!” [Read more →]

Tags: Artic, Cambodia, Canada, Gas Cramps, Greenland, Nature, Politics, Russia, Thailand, United States by Richard
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