Warlike Climate Mobilization

2017, Adaptation, Climate Change, Communication, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Farming, Policy, Project, SolutionsLeave a comment

The Climate Mobilization Victory Plan, written by Ezra Silk, is a policy document that tangibly demonstrates how the U.S. could eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, contribute to a global effort to restore a safe climate, and reverse ecological overshoot through a massive WWII-scale mobilization. http://www.postcarbon.org/the-climate-mobilization-victory-plan-foreword The Victory Plan (PDF) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByftlCTrJRYVejBuYUZkM1dKcms/view The Climate Mobilization…

Atmospheric Oxygen Decline threatens Humanity’s Existence

2017, Model, Oxygen, Paleoclimatology, StudyLeave a comment

Study: There has been a clear decline in the volume of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere over the past 20 years. A recently proposed model predicts a non-linear decay, which would result in an increasingly rapid fall-off in atmospheric oxygen concentration, with potentially devastating consequences for human health. We predict that humans may continue to survive…

Florida plans to abandon Property to the Sea (Sea Level Rise)

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One idea likely to be both controversial and expensive: demolishing properties and returning developed areas back to nature. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article155213369.html B-Roll: Miami Sea Level Flooding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4DIkVDIDS0 Sea level rise Key West https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/872749253185220608 The Perfect Tide: Sea Level and the Future of South Florida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU U.S. GDP by State https://www.bea.gov/iTable/drilldown.cfm?reqid=70&stepnum=11&AreaTypeKeyGdp=1&GeoFipsGdp=XX&ClassKeyGdp=naics&ComponentKey=200&IndustryKey=1&YearGdp=2016&YearGdpBegin=-1&YearGdpEnd=-1&UnitOfMeasureKeyGdp=levels&RankKeyGdp=1&Drill=1&nRange=5 Sound effects http://Soundmorph.com Expert explains Future Sea…

The Article from 1912 predicting Climate Change due to Coal burning

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A 1912 news article ominously forecasted the catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on climate change https://qz.com/817354/scientists-have-been-forecasting-that-burning-fossil-fuels-will-cause-climate-change-as-early-as-1882 Patreon http://patreon.com/ClimateState Paypal https://climatestate.com/support-future-climate-change-coverage Goal Consumption Affecting Climate https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814.2.56.5 Popular Mechanics 1912 https://archive.org/stream/PopularMechanics1912/Popular_Mechanics_03_1912#page/n85/mode/2up 300 PPM 1911 https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/ghgases/Fig1A.ext.txt Milankovitch cycles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles 1911 United Kingdom heat wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_United_Kingdom_heat_wave UK weather: Heatwave timeline, 1911-2014 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2014/jul/18/heatwave-weather-summer-temperatures The New York Times 1911 on Heatwave…

The National Security Implications of Climate Change (June 2017)

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On June 5, The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill exploring climate change risks to U.S. national security – particularly, the effect on Department of Defense (DoD) force readiness, missions and infrastructure. The discussion ranged from prospective impacts on overseas missions,…