Tag: Climate change
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Nature is a jazz band
“Climate change”, avers Rex Tillerson, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil and erstwhile US Secretary of State, “is an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.” This brief statement encapsulates how the metaphor of the machine underlies the way our mainstream culture views the natural world. It also hints at the grievous dangers involved in perceiving nature in […]
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Rain at peak of Greenland: evidence of a disaster
On August 14 researchers at the National Science Foundation’s Summit Station observed rainfall at the peak of Greenland‘s rapidly melting ice sheet for the first time on record: an event driven by warming temperatures. “This was the third time in less than a decade, and the latest date in the year on record, that the National Science Foundation’s […]
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CODE RED FOR HUMANITY
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.” This is the clear and terrifying statement that opens the Summary for Policymakers from the the Sixth Assessment Report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a […]
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