Showing posts with label Global Warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Warming. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Kim Stanley Robinson's THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE: A Review

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 ...by me, but not here; it's at The Ancillary Review of Books , and you can read it here: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2021/01/20...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

A Longer-Term Problem

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  I know we're all (rightly) paralyzed with fear and anxiety about the next few months, but allow me a moment for a longer-term worry. I...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

"But What Can I Do?"

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A friend on facebook (who will be anonymous unless they say they'd like to be named) asked. re climate change : "But what can we do...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Today in Apocalinks

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• Mayor of Boston urges preparation for 2-foot sea level rise • Permafrost Melting Rate Could Be Faster And Worse Than We Thought, New Stud...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Recursive Conspiracy Theories

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From Justin Gills at the New York Times ( via ): Dr. Lewandowsky’s survey results suggested that people who rejected climate science wer...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

What if the World Ends Tomorrow and No One Notices?

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LINDSEY: It's been here all along. Underneath. You're just too damn stupid to see it. ANGEL: See what? LINDSEY: The apocalypse, m...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Verbatim Title of a Recent Presentation at a Major Scientific Conference: "Is the Earth F**ked?"

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LINDSEY: It's been here all along. Underneath. You're just too damn stupid to see it. ANGEL: See what? LINDSEY: The apocalypse, m...
Monday, December 03, 2012

Kim Stanley Robinson on Geoengineering

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Kim Stanley Robinson, "Earth: Under Repair, Forever" : We lack the political mechanisms, or maybe even the political will, to d...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Today in Apocalypse Links

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• New Scientist Special Report: 7 Reasons Climate Change Is ‘Even Worse Than We Thought’ .  From Think Progress's post summarizing th...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Impending Apocalypse Low Priority Compared to Future Budget Deficits

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This is the way the world ends... • Shorter Barack Obama : Climate change is real, and serious, but it's a tough challenge, so fuck it...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Preach it!

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Accelerating Towards Hell

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I've posted a version of this video once before , but I'm going to post it again, because Ryan Cooper has taken Dave Robert 's ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

However Worried You Are About Climate Change You're Not Worried Enough

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Dave Robberts points to a new paper showing that avoiding catastrophe will "require a level of immediate, global, coordinated action n...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Quote of the Day: Of Despair and Climate Change

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Taken from a pair of comments in this comment thread from Making Light . The comment thread really springs to life with the first of thes...
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Saturday, July 07, 2012

Lines in Larry Kramer's Seminal Essay "1,112 and Counting..." Which Could Be Written Today About Global Warming

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I'm teaching Larry Kramer's astonishing article, "1,112 and Counting..." , on Monday for part of a unit on AIDS we're ...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

"Our present course leads to certain catastrophe"

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The basics of climate change in 17 minutes: If you're not panicked, then you're not paying attention (or are in denial, or have swal...
Sunday, March 25, 2012

We Are All Senator Inhofe Now

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There was a certain amount of justifiable mockery when Senator James Inhofe, one of the leading deniers of climate change in American politi...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Quote of the Day on the Most Important Political Issue of Our Time: a New Year's Eve Post

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Climate change is the most important issue of our time -- both due to its urgency (the time frame for getting a solution into place is distr...
Friday, March 18, 2011

I Have Not Been Writing About Current Events This Year

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-- because my head has been elsewhere. I have a lot of posts in the pipeline for the next week: none on current events. (All on poetry, ac...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

The Onion Continues to Live Up To Its Tag Line, "America's Finest News Source"

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The newspaper that brought you the single story that told you everything you really needed to know about the Bush administration before it...
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