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by Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock
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31 January 2010 |
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Regarding the recent attacks on top climate scientists, Radio Ecoshock takes the case of Richard B. Alley. He is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, at Penn State University. Alley is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His popular book about ice cores is called "The Two Mile Time Machine."
Alley was expected to give one of the best speeches of the December 2009 annual meeting of the AGU in San Francisco, and he did not disappoint. Here is a short digest of that hour-long Bjerknes Lecture to the AGU in San Francisco in December. |
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by Carolyn Baker
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05 January 2010 |
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Ten years ago this moment, America was awaiting the inauguration of a new President. We knew that the new Bush administration would bring at least four years of darkness, but we had no idea how dark, nor that a second hijacked election would follow the first, nor the extent to which the influence of Bush II would extend into the future. Certainly, we had no inkling of 9/11 and that terror — both politically and psychologically would overshadow every day of the
coming decade. Nor could we have anticipated the trauma of the Bush years and its lingering legacy for generations to come. |
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by Albert Bates
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26 December 2009 |
"Cokenhagen" blog's last day
Leaving Copenhagen before sunrise, we passed into the airport terminal revolving doors, each panel emblazoned with the "Hopenhagen" logo, but beneath it was revealed Hopenhagen's corporate sponsor, Coca Cola, taking credit for the advertising campaign. Hope has died but Coke survived.
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by Jan Lundberg
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22 December 2009 |
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The unnatural dominant culture, coldly spewing its noise and heat, subjecting
us to dirty machines and pavement, no longer makes sense in terms of our
needs as humans. But don't let it get you down and make you give up.
Play your guitar, enjoy the company of friends, or whatever else
restores your humanity. Perhaps the songs and the
conversations will lead to some liberation and justice, alleviating
the pain of this senseless system running our lives into the
ground. But we must do even more. Finding a "better job" is no
solution long-term, however much we think we need money to survive. |
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by Albert Bates
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22 December 2009 |
My COP15 Journal: Day Sixteen, Dec. 19
"Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you, not that we really cared. The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns."
— George Monbiot, The Guardian, Dec. 18, 2009
Last Day: When we arrived in Copenhagen 16 days ago, we were met by Ross and Hildur Jackson, our hosts at a farm near Birkerød, just outside the city. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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19 December 2009 |
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Although one yearns for global warming to indeed not exceed 2 degrees Celsius (or less, as African countries demand), the take-home message from the Copenhagen COP meeting is that polluters and growth mongers, large and small, will not let up. This is because they are not being forced to -- whether by their own peoples or by natural forces such as ecological or economic collapse. Most diabolical is the intention to switch energy as the main strategy for climate protection, when it will not work.
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