I was asked to submit a story for a upcoming book about the life of Neil Finn which has been accepted. The Finn brothers and I have been sailing together now for 36 yrs mostly just in spirit but a…
Great images of the melting permafrost with surprisingly no mention of the methane and carbon released as the permafrost melts. 20% of the land mass in the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. All of that CO2 and CH4 will soon be…
This is an excellent round up of a growing phenomenon of raging wild fires unleashed on the planet converting carbon sinks into carbon emitters that will never sequester carbon again. It is important to note that we are at 1.5…
This data for me undoubtedly represents runaway abrupt climate change. We have now entered the exponential phase of this catastrophe and have drifted, leader-less into uncharted territory. My hope is that in a year from now I will be proven…
“In March, the temperature deviation in on islands in the Barents Sea was 12C.” 12C anomaly. This is a catastrophic level of anomaly !!!!!!!!! “In most of the country, the temperature rose between 3 and 5 degrees.” If people can’t…
Climate-exodus is expected in the Middle East and North Africa. There is zero chance of emissions being restricted to 2 degrees C and with the “Business as Usual” scenario we are looking at 4C with no allowance for forcing from…
Excellent tutorial on the ongoing Arctic unraveling from Paul Beckwith who you can find at PaulBeckwith.net with a chilling reference to the inevitable desperate geo-engineering possibilities. In my recent interview on CounterPunch here: ‘Paul Street & Kevin Hester – Episode…
“Syria’s two main waste-water treatment plants, for Aleppo and Damascus, are virtually destroyed, according to the ICRC which helps disinfect nearly 80 percent of the country’s water.” Attacking the water supplies and infrastructure is a War Crime against the civilian…
The ever reliable Dahr Jamail clearly shows how we are in runaway abrupt climate change. Prepare for an Arctic summer like no other. As he writes: “Temperatures in 2016 Approach Limit Set at Paris Climate Conference“: “On April 22 (Earth…
We were warned and we didn’t listen. First of all in 1847 by George Perkins Marsh and then, even by the UN in 1989 and more recently by Professor Guy McPherson, who will be returning to NZ in November 2016. If…