Recent breaks at Alabama and California no match for oil industry avarice Let me start off here with a basic fact that is somehow “the emperor wears no clothes” in the overall fossil fuel debate. Much of America, almost every scientist, and even many oil industry insiders know, full well, that petroleum’s time as a […]
The evidence that “supercharged” weather is caused by manmade global warming is overwhelming In his shows, American (by way of England) comedian John Oliver puzzles over what he describes as “America’s problem with facts.” The crux of the bit – funny, in part, because it’s true – is that, when faced with a fact, Americans […]
Massive rescue and aid operations launched amidst growing wildfires in Alberta Yesterday, Reuters reported that around 90,000 people have been evacuated due to the Alberta province’s raging inferno. While cooler temperatures Friday provided a modicum of relief for emergency crews and residents, Saturday’s forecast is dry and hot. The Canadian government’s response to the wildfires […]
Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They […]
The smaller El Niño events of old spawned floods, droughts, and famines The human capacity for adaptation is remarkable. Stories of survival through adapting to unfamiliar environments fill volumes of literature on the most cherished shelves. Sometimes, though, we adapt too well to situations that will bring us harm in the long run. The phrase […]
As El Niño wreaks historic havoc, system warns aid agencies of potential famine zones War. Drought. Refugee crisis. This is the “perfect storm” for famine. A drought, its worst ever to that point, was one of the stressors at last decade’s end that brought Syria to the instability preceding its civil war. Now, with nearly […]