Climate Change Terror -Dubai’s COP-out Denial Conference
The issue, betrayed, is nothing more and nothing less than the future of a multitude of species on Earth, including Homo sapiens. As confirmed by the acceleration of climate extremes,…
Dr Andrew Glikson
A climate of the unthinkable on a burning Earth
“The climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks” Wallace Smith Broecker Having turned a deaf ear to the basic laws of nature, ignoring the…
A climate of Insanity
As the emission of greenhouse gases continues, new fossil fuel projects are subsidized, global warming acceerates, bushfires and floods engulf the planet, climate science is ignored, climate change projections are…
Too late? The climate & nuclear juggernaut
At 90 seconds to a midnight and a few decades to +4oC will ’sapiens’ end up on the beach? The clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at 90…
Betrayal: The threat to life on Earth
It has been overlooked that, under current policies, global warming would render aboriginal lands in central and northern Australia unliveable. In his classic book The Fate of the Earth speaking…
Planetary Inferno: Nero fiddles while Rome burns
The fast rise in global warming manifested by current extreme weather events betray a dangerous underestimation of the Earth’s liveable climate, while governments ignore climate science, claim to set limits…
A Climate of Betrayal
“All grimly true, but they can be sure that they won't be recorded for their crimes in history – because there won't be any history” (Noam Chomsky) No words can…
Nuremberg trials for imperiling mass extinction of species
But while “leaders” fail to protect the people from global warming and nuclear war, they have succeeded splendidly in hiding the truth through the denial of climate change, accounting tricks…
The brief lifespan of technological civilizations and the future of Homo Sapiens
In his book ‘Collapse’ (2011) Jared Diamond portrays the fate of societies which Choose to Fail or Succeed. On a larger scale the Fermi’s paradox suggests that advanced technological civilizations…
Nuclear Portents On A Burning Earth
According to Fermi’s Paradox, the failure to date to achieve radio communications between Earth and extraterrestrial civilizations can be attributed to the short-term self-destruction of technological civilization by means of contamination of air,…
Portents of the unthinkable
According to the Fermi Paradox the failure to date to achieve radio communication between Earth and extraterrestrial civilizations can be attributed to their short longevity due to inevitable self-destruction. Tragically…
Forever War on a burning Earth
According to the Fermi’s Paradox, the apparent absence of radio communication between technical civilizations can be attributed to their inevitable short-term self-destruction, a consequence of uncontrolled invention of toxic substances,…
Portents of an irreversible climate change
Current mean greenhouse gas concentrations have reached a level similar to those of the Miocene (5.3 – 23 million years ago) when average temperatures exceeded 4 degrees Celsius and, while…
The Fermi paradox – From the gas chambers to a radioactive greenhouse Earth
According to Fermi’s Paradox the apparent absence to date of observable extra-terrestrial intelligent life suggests the lifetime of technological civilizations may not be long, consistent with Carl Sagan’s estimate of…
The Thucydides Trap: Stumbling blindly into nuclear war
“The splitting of the atom has changed everything, bar man’s way of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes” Albert Einstein Figure 1. Thucydides On a rapidly warming planet…
Portents of a nuclear winter on a warming Earth
The discovery by Alvarez and Alvarez (1980) of the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary (~66 million years-ago) asteroid impact, eliminating approximately 80 percent of all species, has among other released enough dust and…
Accelerating global warming and amplifying feedbacks: The imperative of CO2 drawdown
Satellite measurements indicate that 2021 was one of the warmest years on record, with the past seven years being the hottest period recorded globally (M et Office, January 10, 2022).…
5.9 $trillion spent by governments on fossil fuel subsidies in 2020
As indicated by the International Monetary fund, greenhouse gas emissions are funded world-wide by government subsidies totaling $5.9 trillion in 2020, about 6.8% global GDP, expected to rise to 7.4% of…
Planetary Ecocide — The Crime Against Life on Earth
“We are simply talking about the very life support system of this planet.” Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Germany’s former chief climate scientist (2009) “Burning all fossil fuels would create a very…
The Origin of the Northern Freeze
Warnings by leading climate scientists regarding the high sensitivity of the atmosphere in response to abrupt compositional changes, such as near-doubling of greenhouse gas concentrations, are now manifest: According to Wallace…
The extreme rate of global warming: IPCC Oversights of future climate trends
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and comprehensive summaries of the peer-reviewed literature raise questions regarding the assumptions inherent in computer modelling of future climate changes, including the supposed…
The fatal consequences of high atmospheric methane levels
It is hard to think of a more Orwellian expression than that describing the increase in toxic atmospheric methane gas as “gas-led recovery.” Several of the large mass extinctions of…
How long for civilization?
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein. As the world is trying to hopefully recover from the tragic effects of…
The global warming rate exceeds geological mass extinction events
Global CO₂ rise and warming rates have reached a large factor to an order of magnitude higher than those of the past geological and mass extinction events, with major implications…
While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction
At several points in the history of our planet, increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have caused extreme global warming, prompting the majority of species on Earth to die out.…
A viral climate of fear
Where the virus may potentially claim the lives of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, global heating above 4oC is bound to claim the lives of billions, yet…
Global warming and the Australian fire storms
Global warming and its disastrous consequences are now truly with us since the second part of 2019. At the moment a change in the weather has given parts of the…
Planetary arson
“Meeting the climate goals of the Paris Agreement is going to be nearly impossible without removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere” Kevin Drum (2019). No one knows how to impose…
Global warming and the habitability of planet Earth
Carbon, the essential element underpinning photosynthesis and life, is transformed into toxic substances in the remnants of plants and organisms buried in sediments. Once released to the atmosphere (Fig. 1)…
The breach of the Paris climate accord
Since its inception the Paris climate accord has been in questiondue to,among other(1) its broad definition, intended to keep a mean global temperature rise this century to below 1.5oC and…
Tinderbox Earth
The effects of encroaching deserts andof fire storms onterrestrial forests, originally developed under moderate conditions distinct from those emerging under rapid global warming and extreme weather events, may have been…
The fatal nexus – Atmospheric CO2 and the mass extinction of species
As the concentration of atmospheric CO2has risen to 408 ppm and the total greenhouse gas level, including methane and nitrous oxide, combine to near500 parts per million CO2-equivalent, the stability…
The emperor’s new clothes: Greta Thunberg and the climate contrarians
First law of humanity – don’t kill your children(Hans Joachim Schellnhuber) It is not an accident that fascist philosophies and movements willfully ignore human-induced global warmingleading to the Sixth mass…
Inferno: From climate denial to planetary arson
The planetary consequences of injecting >910 billion tons CO2 into the atmosphere are playing in real time. The Arctic Circle is suffering from an unprecedented number of wildfires in the…
Portents of 21st century global warming
Extreme GHG and temperaturerise rates question linear climate projections Preamble “we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will most…
Tinderbox Earth: The significance of the Amazon and Siberian fires
As fires rage across tens of thousands square km the Amazon forest, dubbed the Planet’s lungs, producing some 20 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere, with some 72,843 fires…
The fading home of Homo ‘sapiens’
In front of our eyes green forests are blackened by fire, draughts turn grassy planes to brown semi-deserts,fertile fields are flooded by muddy water,white snow and ice melt to pale…
Space Lunacy
$trillion space games and false prophecies by billionaires while Rome burns History testifies to powerful rulers’ aspirations for the position of gods, including the Pharaohs and Roman Emperors such as…
Beyond climate tipping points: Greenhouse gas levels exceed the stability threshold of the ice sheets
Abstract As the world keeps increasing its carbon emissions and exports,rising in 2018 to a record 33.1 billion ton per year, the atmospheric greenhouse gas level has now exceeded 560…
Greta Thunberg says ’You lied to us’
“The first law of humanity is not to kill your children” (Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, EU chief climate scientist). Following a nuclear reduction agreement in the Eighties, workers of a US…
The Newspeak road to four degrees Celsius
While a price placed on the Earth, estimated at $5000 trillion (New Formula Values Earth), belongs to the unthinkable, the haggle by conservatives over the price of mitigation of climate…
The climate crisis and the extinction rebellion | Andrew Glikson
“The first law of humanity is not to kill your children” Joachim Hans Schellnhuber,Germany’s and the EU’s chief climate scientist. “we will be in a position where we set off…
Under a greenhouse atmosphere
As carbon emissions have been growing at an accelerated rate (Figure 1) and new power plants are under construction (Figure 2) the race to destroy species and civilization is heading…
The advent of extreme weather events and climate tipping points
According to Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, chief climate advisor to the European Union, “We’re simply talking about the very life support system of this planet”. As fascism and the horror of…
The IPCC and climate tipping point: Revised trajectories for the 21-23rd centuries
"The science that we are doing is a threat to the world’s most powerful and wealthiest special interests: the fossil fuel industry. They have used their immense resources to create…
The northern freeze event
According to NOAA (https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card) Arctic surface air temperatures continued to warm at twice the rate relative to the rest of the globe, leading to a loss of 95 percent of…
Imagining the real: Two minute to midnight on the Clock of the Atomic Scientists
On January 24, 2019, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has stated: “Humanity now faces two simultaneous existential threats, either of which would be cause for extreme concern and immediate…
A revision of future climate change trends
Abstract As the Earth continues to heat, paleoclimate evidence suggests transient reversals will result in accentuating the temperature polarities, leading to increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather…
Origins of the climate catastrophe
It is not a mere coincidence that extreme right wing movements reject the scientific evidence for anthropogenic climate change, which reflects their connections with the fossil fuel corporations from whom…
The Gathering Climate Storm And The Media Cover-up
“Earth is now substantially out of energy balance. The amount of solar energythat Earth absorbs exceeds the energy radiated back to space. The principalmanifestations of this energy imbalance are continued…
Crimes against the Earth
"Dear Caesar Keep Burning, raping, killing But please, please Spare us your obscene poetry And ugly music " (From Seneca's last letter to Nero) The excavation of more than 600…
The 2018 Firestorms: there is no Planet B
It takes only a spark, from a lightning or human ignition, to start a fire, but it involves high temperatures, a period of drought, a build-up of dry vegetation and…
Orwellian climate newspeak
In so far as it may have been assumed that the growing manifestations of global warming through extreme weather events will cause people to realize the reality and the implications…
High sea level rise projections and the IPCC
In a key paper titled “Scientific reticence and sea level rise” (https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha01210n.html)(2007) James Hansen, the renown climate scientist, has been critical of what he regards as major underestimates of the…
The IPCC’S final warnings of extreme global warming
Scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicatethat global temperature rise of 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures would constitute a threshold the planet cannot cross without suffering the worst…
A world on borrowed time
Current temperature trajectories are on par with or exceed the IPCC’s dangerous projections (Figure 1). Acting as the lungs of the biosphere, over tens of millions of years the atmosphere…
Human cognitive dissonance and the 7th mass extinction of species
The history of Earth is marked by at least seven major mass extinctions, including asteroid impact effects 580 million years ago, the end Ordovician glaciation, late Devonian asteroid impacts, end-Permian…
Hothouse Earth – Evidence for a demise of the planetary life support system
In a key paper titled “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene“,published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Science (6.8.2018),a group of 17 climate and environment…
Global fires, droughts and Orwellian Newspeak while Nero fiddles
There was a time when the contamination of drinking water constituted a punishable crime. Nowadays those who willfully ignore or promote the destruction of the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean acidification…
The mainstream media and the drive toward WW III
For many weeks much of the mainstream media world-wide, including broadcasters, been warning of potential concessions in the negotiations between the US and North Korea andbetween Donald Trump and Vladimir…
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