The scientific evidence for a human fingerprint on this global warming is now overwhelming. Emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, from human activities—most crucially, the burning of fossil fuels, but also agricultural practices, deforestation, and cement production—are the primary drivers, particularly of the rapid warming since the 1970s. Full Story »
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This is a good look at adaptation and mitigation approaches to climate change. It primarily looks at human actions and impacts, and despite it's moderate length it omits some key considerations and approaches.
A key mitigation is reversing human population growth. Other lifeforms in the ecosphere cannot adapt (evolve) at a pace that matches anthropogenic climate change, and so mass extinctions are inevitable unless there is mitigation. Overfishing and ocean acidification suggests there may not be enough food to support humans through a slow adaptation. Corporate controlled monocultures lessen the evolutionary adaptability from genetic diversity in local seeds and crops. It is time to ... More »
large increases in greenhouse-gas concentrations are in store in the next several decades unless rapid mitigating action is taken. More »
This just lays it all out: humans are causing the rapid climate changes we are now experiencing and will experience for some time, regardless of what we do at this point.
This story is filled with scare stories that have zero chance of taking place. The truth is that climate science cannot predict the future. Stephen Schneider is famous for saying that it is necessary to exaggerate to get the attention of the public and he is doing that massively.
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