Tyler prize - Rachel Maddow

Hotter Temps, Long-Term Drought, Development Drive Fire Problems in the West

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Rachel Maddow on sea level and climate change.

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Top U.S. climate expert calls Conservatives 'Neanderthal'

HT David K over at Climate Progress

Chasing Ice

Extreme Weather

Permafrost: The Tipping Time Bomb

Encore: Ending the Silence on Climate Change

Chris Hayes again

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Chris Hayes is the only journalist on TV that I know of that thinks climate change needs more coverage. If I'm wrong, let me know who is doing it better.

Horizon: Death Of The Oceans? (BBC)

Drought, food insecurity and Climate Change

Residents of the Great Plains over the last year or so have experienced storms reminiscent of the 1930s Dust Bowl. Experts say the new storms have been brought on by a combination of historic drought, a dwindling Ogallala Aquifer underground water supply, climate change and government farm programs.

• ...the Ogallala aquifer is drying up after years of drawing out more water than was replenished. The water may run out in 25 years or less in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and southwest Kansas, although in other areas it has 50 to 200 years left, according to the Geological Survey.
• 60 percent of lower 48 states now in drought
• Grain prices soar as drought impact deepens
• The average annual temperature in Lubbock has increased by one full degree over the last decade, according to National Weather Service data, and the average amount of rainfall has fallen during summer months by about .50 inch over the decade

Storms on US Plains stir memories of the 'Dust Bowl'

Up with Chris Hayes again

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Up with Chris Hayes

Planetary catastrophe is inevitable without geoengineering to cool the Arctic

An assessment by AMEG Could the world be in imminent danger and nobody is telling?

The Arctic is in meltdown. Uniquely and fearlessly AMEG has studied key non-linear trends in the Earth-human System and reached the stunning conclusion that the planet stands at the edge of abrupt and catastrophic climate change as a result of an unprecedented rate of change in the Arctic. This contrasts sharply with the linear prognostications of the models on which governments rely. Unlike the conventional view that climate change will impact gradually over many decades, AMEG acknowledges the impact is now, therefore requiring action now to prevent the situation spiraling out of control.

Arctic Methane Emergency Group

Vicki Arroyo: Let's prepare for our new climate

Zeitgeist

Climate Change Is Killing the Economy: Here’s What Can Be Done to Stop It

 

Tipping Points in Earth Climate System (2012 Arctic Methane Special)

HT prokaryotes at Climate Progress

Be Prepared

Climate: Arctic Thermostat Blows Up (audio)

It is happening so fast it's hard to fathom. Events will take place next year, or a decade from now, that will leave millions to fend for themselves for weeks (or more)... but they will happen.

Be prepared.

Discovery Channel - Global Warming, What You Need To Know, with Tom Brokaw

OMG II

Why I started this blog?

I had an epiphany that the global economy can't handle climate change unless we really change our priorities, including the demand for growth. Since our economic system depends on growth we are going to have to develop brand new things that help our life support system instead of destroy it. The things we leave behind, like fossil fuels... well there are going to be some painful adjustments required of all of us, but it is truely do or die.

Now the main stream media is starting to get the picture:

If the United States has entered an era in which mega-storms, perhaps related to climate change, are becoming the “new normal,” it will create new spending pressures at a time when federal revenues every year are falling roughly $1 trillion short of outlays. If you factor in a growing population and development in coastal areas, then storm damage is likely to become even more expensive over time.

Catastrophic storms’ costs put cloud over federal budgets