Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
In the face of the overwhelming scientific evidence, a new international social movement called Extinction Rebellion has emerged. Their goal is zero carbon emissions by 2025, and that is just 7 years away. The strategy is not to simply ask or propose, but to actively engage in non-violent protest and disruption. Since the founding of … Read more
Twenty years ago back in 1998 an article was published in Nature in which climate scientists presented data that confirmed that the observed warming was unprecedented in at least six centuries… Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries This year those same scientists have published an article in Nature that admits … Read more
The short summary is this – progress was made, but it is simply not enough to address the galloping pace of climate change. What has been agreed is not pointless, it does help, and yet which would you rather be, nearly saved or nearly drowned. Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, … Read more
A common rebuttal to the current concern regarding the observed climate changes that are upon us is “Oh but the climate is always changing, this is nothing new, it has been worse in the past“. There is nothing “natural” about what is currently being measured and observed, we know with a high degree of certainty … Read more
As part of the buildup to the start of the UNFCC conference in Katowice, Poland tomorrow (2nd Dec 2018), various interested parties have been publishing statements and reports that feed the very best and latest evidence-based observational data into the process of understanding the #climate. As part of that pattern, the World Meteorological Organisation has issued … Read more
Researchers at the University of Hawaii have published a new study within Nature that examines the changes we face due to the ongoing uptick in the levels of Greenhouse gas. It specifically examines how we will be impacted by the simultaneous occurrence of multiple climate hazards strengthened by increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This research reveals that … Read more