Monthly Archives: October 2019

“Amazon Watch:  What Happens When the Forest Disappears?” (Yale e360).  Another piece of outstanding journalism by Fred Pearce, bearing on many aspects of the process whereby rainforest is converted to savanna.  One glaring detail:  “Deforestation is dramatically raising local temperatures. … Continue reading →

An interview with David Spratt about the solution to climate change (Climate Code Red).  This is an online version of a script that will be published in Germany by Energiewende Magazin.  David is an Australian who has spent decades doing … Continue reading →

Algal blooms are getting more severe in lakes all over the world (Carnegie Institute for Science).  This has been demonstrated for the first time by a survey based on thirty years of satellite images.  While different factors have affected different … Continue reading →

“Bring back real forests across Europe” (The Ecologist)  All the reasons for reestablishing large natural forest areas in the UK and elsewhere are clearly spelled out by a professional environmentalist.  “It’s not enough to simply have more trees, however, reforestation … Continue reading →

‘Industrial heat’—a hidden emissions problem that is huge in size and hard to solve (Vox).  David Roberts does a terrific job of explaining a problem that accounts for about ten percent (!) of global CO2 emissions due to human activity.  … Continue reading →

From the IMF:  A new call for sharply higher carbon taxes (The Guardian).  There is nothing new about the content of the plan, which is based on an idea that has been around for several decades.  What is striking about … Continue reading →

More accurate calculation of estimates of the oceanic carbon sink (European Space Agency).  Satellite measurements have refined some previous uncertainties in the estimates, which were usually said to be around 25% of the amount of carbon emitted by human activity—after … Continue reading →

The South Pole has a polar vortex similar to the one in the North, and it can likewise break down (Monash University).  A new study describes how variations in the vortex has implications in the form of extreme weather events … Continue reading →

A short explanation of how warmer soils accelerate climate change, and the main route to corrective action (Yale Climate Connections).  From a professor of ecosystem ecology, land that has been cleared for agriculture creates a ‘feedback loop’ as temperatures rise, … Continue reading →

An interesting new determination of Earth’s CO2 level over the past 2.5 million years (Texas A&M University).  This study, released on Sept. 25, has not been widely publicized, perhaps because the methods used were so new to science and the … Continue reading →