Jared Diamond Warns of Interconnected Issues, not addressed could spell Global Collapse

2019, Action, Climate Change, Project, Solutions1 Comment

Intelligencer’s David Wallace-Wells discussed the new book Upheaval, by author Jared Diamond known for his works The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); Collapse (2005); and The World Until Yesterday (2012). Jared Diamond said, “Today, the risk that we’re facing is not of societies collapsing one by one, but because of globalization, the risk we are facing…

How Climate Change Affects Travel

2019, Climate ChangeLeave a comment

Climate change is affecting a wide range of industries, from energy and fossil fuels, to agriculture, to insurance. And it’s also greatly affecting the travel and tourism industries. Below are just a few of the ways that climate change is already affecting — and will affect — global travel and tourism: Road Trips We’re experiencing…

Plot Review: The End of the World, 세계의끝 Korea (2013)

2019, Biosphere, Films, Health, Impacts, Microbiology, Viruses1 Comment

세계의 끝, The End of the World, is a 2013 drama television show produced in South Korea, and directed by Ahn Pan-seok, based on the 2010 novel “Infectious Disease” by Bae Young-Ik. The plot centers around Kang Joo-Heon (Yoon Je-Moon) chief epidemiologist at the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who’s skills in deductive…

German’s Leading Party Blocks CO2 Tax

2019, Action, Carbon Tax, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Europa, Europe, Germany, Policy1 Comment

The CDU is Germany’s leading party, even though losing big stakes in recent elections to the far-right and the Green party. The current debate in light of Germany’s lack of climate change actions, let alone leadership, centers around taxation of carbon dioxide emitting fossil fuels. A carbon tax is a tax levied on the carbon content of fuels.[1] It is a form…

Oil Wars, Fossil Fuel Subsidies and the Global Climate Crisis

2019, Action, Adaptation, Dirty Energy, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Energy Security, Impacts, National Security, Oil, Policy, Resources, Society, Study2 Comments

An oil war is a conflict about petroleum resources, or their transportation, consumption, or regulation. The term may also refer generally to any conflict in a region that contains oil reserves or is geographically positioned in a location where an entity has or may wish to develop production or transportation infrastructure for petroleum products. Historically,…

How Trump’s Coupe to get Venezuela Oil may cost him the Presidency

2019, Action, Conflict, Dirty Energy, Energy, Energy Security, Impacts, National Security, USA1 Comment

It comes to no surprise that Donald Trump’s plan always was to adhere the agenda of drill baby drill. Now, with the ongoing Coup d’état in Venezuela by a Trump loyal puppet people may wonder why the Trump Administration is so cheerful of it. Simply put, it is about Venezuela’s oil reserves – the largest…

Earth’s fish are disappearing because of climate change

2019, Asia, Biosphere, Climate Science, Life formsLeave a comment

Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN: Climate change is endangering fish worldwide, shrinking populations by up to 35% in coastal regions near China and Japan, scientists say. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/28/world/climate-change-fishing-oceans-global-warming-intl/index.html Narrated by Bryan Video via http://pixabay.com Sound effects TRAILER MUSIC ACADEMY https://www.trailermusicacademy.com/free-sample-pack-trailer-tools-vol-1/

Virtual Climate Change Lecture [CS – Space Alpha]

2019, Climate Change, Climate State, Communication, Game1 Comment

Demonstration of a virtual climate lecture. Watch the full lecture at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7TL_BbAd-s This footage is an early implementation of a climate lecture, for the game Climate State, currently in development with Unreal Engine. For more updates, progress, and infos on the alpha test follow https://www.youtube.com/user/AlphaSpaceDev/videos