Category Archives: ecology

Distribution of living organisms and how they interface with the environment

Siberian permafrost thaw warning

2013-2-23 – 2:53 pm

“Such a thaw could damage this infrastructure with obvious economic implications.”

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Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services

2013-1-5 – 6:54 pm

quite early in the Anthropocene

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Extreme Drought in September corresponds with Political Loss in November

2012-11-10 – 1:23 pm

Obama never said anything about climate change during the campaign. He only mentioned it during his speech to staff after he was declared the winner.

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Coaltopia

2012-8-26 – 7:08 pm

The major problem is encouraging greater use of a product that, in the future, is leading to the end of life on this planet as we know it.

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Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could

2012-7-27 – 2:08 pm

“unlike financial fraud or terrorist attacks,” (the Robber Barons, which decide what and what is not terrorism, want you to believe that “climate change does not register, emotionally, as a wrong that demands to be righted.”

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Median Cost of Electricity from Coal

2012-7-27 – 9:27 am

True cost estimate does not include lives taken from extreme weather from human caused climate change

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No Fracking, It’s Too Costly

2012-7-26 – 3:18 pm

“However hard they try to suppress government funding and tax breaks for renewables, Big Oil and Big Gas are doomed to lose, and in only about 4 years.”

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We’re All Climate-Change Idiots

2012-7-22 – 1:58 pm

“local, practical demands of day-to-day life make it difficult to engage with the more abstract, global dangers posed by climate change.”

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Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math

2012-7-19 – 7:26 pm

End of Life on the Planet as We know It, The Rolling Stone lists some of the companies bringing us this consequence,

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Carbon – the Huge and Yet Overlooked Fossil Fuel Subsidy

2012-7-13 – 7:05 pm

Society as a whole picks up the tab for the damage or ignores and denies the damage by human carbon emissions. Fossil fuel producers and consumers have avoided paying for these external costs to coal power.

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