Category Archives: risk

a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; also how probable or likely the possibility is

Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather.

2012-7-13 – 3:45 pm

Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C., “Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather. “It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.” We dump billions of tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere each year. As a result, the concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 40%. Excess carbon [...]

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Corporations look to plunder Earth’s polar resources

2012-7-5 – 8:49 pm

Re-post from Greenpeace International The World’s multinational corporations face an unrelenting problem. Resource extraction has met Earth’s limits. The great fortunes of history were made by plundering resources, but we have taken the best of everything. With few virgin resources left, modern profit-making schemes turn to stock manipulations, debt swaps, and bets on derivative markets. [...]

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Ocean Heat Flux

2012-7-4 – 4:17 pm

From the Arctic Sea Ice Blog… There are many factors involved in the current long-term decline of Arctic sea ice. From relatively small ones like river discharge, precipitation and soot, to bigger factors like atmospheric patterns and air temperatures. The possibly biggest factor of all is also the factor that is the most unknown and [...]

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Severe weather hits capitals and villages around the world

2012-7-4 – 2:41 pm

In the last week, the world has experienced a series of calamitous weather events. News headlines have painted a grim picture: flooding, drought, landslides and record ice melt in the arctic. These events stretch to every corner of the globe, but their effects are all too heavily felt by the poorest people in the world. [...]

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Scientists Conclude Rise in Sea Level Cannot Be Stopped

2012-7-4 – 2:22 pm

On July 2, 2012 Reuters reporter Nina Chestney noted a concern that this weblog also related before with particular concern for East Coast cities, e.g., New York City, Norfolk, etc. Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed [...]

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72 Percent of the US Is Experiencing Dry or Drought Conditions

2012-7-3 – 7:45 pm

Reprint of article by Julia Whitty for Mother Jones High Park Wildfire, Colorado: USDA via Flickr The extreme weather that began in June (see Deanna Pan’s MoJo coverage here) has rolled over into July. Yesterday—only the first day of the month—was brutal enough to shatter 27 records and tie 24 records for the highest ever [...]

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Home Rule Democracy? Whiskey Tango Frack?

2012-1-27 – 9:04 pm

“Fracking? It’s all about water,” states the author, Ellen Cantarow

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Not To Worry

2011-5-30 – 9:00 am

Nuclear power is safe, just ask TEPCO!

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Thank-you, Tom Corbett, may I have another

2011-4-20 – 4:33 pm

South of the Border (for this Upstate woodchuck), down Towanda Creek way

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Atmospheric and Watershed Degradation

2011-4-11 – 11:53 am

“Pish-posh,” says Emperor Fossil, “as long as there is money to be made, let’s do that voodoo we do so well.”

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