Monday Was World’s Hottest-Ever Day
The world registered its hottest ever day on Monday as temperatures surged across the globe, according to data released by the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Media reports…
Climate Change
Climate Change and the Two Paths Ahead
There are four certainties about the issue of climate change which should not be disputed any more. Firstly, it is a very serious problem, a leading problem among those problems…
Climate Issues are Class Issues
Capitalism is producing climate catastrophe due to its insatiable appetite for the accumulation of an unprecedented level of profit at the cost of people and the planet. In search…
The Ocean Red Zone
Oceans of the world are in a dangerous red zone that exceeds safe limits for marine and terrestrial life because of excessive heat. Several statements by climate scientists show heightened…
Over 120 million Americans under air quality alerts as wildfires continue to rage across Canada
Over 120 million people, or more than a third of the US population, were under air quality alerts in over a dozen states spanning from the Midwest to the East…
We’re Having a Violent Meltdown: The Human Costs of Global Warming — and of Our Response to It
Several times in recent weeks I’ve heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She’s saying that she…
Global Reservoirs Are Becoming Emptier, Finds Study
Comparison of normalized storage (NS) variations of global pre- and post-1999 reservoirs: a Locations of the global reservoirs (with pre-1999 reservoirs in red and post-1999 reservoirs in cyan). b Comparison of the NS values of…
In Praise of Montana’s Climate Kids
It got…somewhat less coverage than the imploded sub, but for me the titanic story of the last week was the truly remarkable trial held in Montana over the last ten…
Global Warming and Water Privatization
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle…
Current Emissions Threatens 2 Billion People in The Hindu Kush Himalayas
The glaciers and snow of the over 3,000 named peaks in the Himalayas are an important water resource that climate change threatens to destroy. Photo: Koshy Koshy/Flickr Scientists have warned in…
Europe – Fastest Warming Continent In World Since 1980s, Says WMO
Temperatures over Europe have warmed significantly over the 1991-2021 period, at an average rate of about +0.5 °C per decade, making it the fastest warming region of all the WMO…
Planetary Heat is Happening Fast, and Faster
The evidence is starting to build that all bets are off on predictions that humanity has a decade, or more, of clear sailing before global warming turns vicious enough to…
Global Temps Not Just Off the Chart, But Off the Wall the Chart Is Tacked To
The rapid warming over the next couple of years is likely to be our last opportunity to really act coherently as a civilization to reduce the magnitude of this crisis,…
Why Is The North Atlantic Breaking Heat Records?
Large swaths of the North Atlantic are well above normal temperature (orange and red) for this time of year, a trend that could affect the forthcoming hurricane season. NOAA In…
Bonn Climate Talks At Risk Of Collapse, After 7-day Agenda Debate
Seven days into climate talks in the German city of Bonn, governments have not been able to agree on an agenda, sparking fears of two wasted weeks of talks while…
Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet – September 11th, Climate-Change-Style
As it turns out, it’s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the…
There Are No Climate Havens
One morning in May 1934, residents in the East woke up to find part of Kansas drifting over their cities. Until then “the black blizzards” of dust that had ravaged…
Deadly wildfire smoke spreads across much of northeast US
Toxic smoke from raging fires in Canada continued to impact large swaths of eastern North America Thursday. Overnight and into the morning, air quality deteriorated to record-shattering levels. In Lancaster,…
France’s Global Warming Predicament
When one of the world’s most developed culturally elite countries, France, tosses in the towel on the IPCC 2°C barrier, it sends a loud and clear message that the…
Wildfire Smoke Chokes Canada and Eastern US
Environmental groups are demanding that world leaders take urgent action as smoke from Canadian wildfires fueled by the climate crisis continued to smother eastern regions of the United States on…
Terracidal But Ignored Carbon Debt From Gas Exploitation By The World & Climate Criminal Australia
In Humanity’s present slow-motion suicide the World resolutely ignores the immense and ever-increasing Carbon Debt due to fossil fuel exploitation. In particular the inescapable Carbon Debt from gas exploitation alone…
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…
Looking for Home in an Overheating World – If Emissions Continue, Will We All Be Migrants Someday?
Greenville, CA — Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021,…
GM Crops Likely to Worsen Climate Change Related Problems for Farmers
The shadow of climate change related problems hangs heavy over most farmers as they struggle increasingly against unexpected weather conditions, extreme weather events and disasters. In such conditions it is…
Next 5 Years Will Smash Global Temperature Records, Says WMO
A new report by the World Meteorological Organization makes dire predictions for the next five years: Global temperatures rising to new record levels, continued ocean heating and acidification, sea ice…
Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?
Policymakers are pouring money into techno-fixes to solve the climate crisis, even though scientific studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective. Human activity—mostly the burning of fossil fuels—has raised…
The Atmosphere is Cooling Dangerously Fast
The upper atmosphere is cooling too fast for comfort. Global warming is only one half of the impact of excessive CO2 emissions generated by cars, planes, trains, and industry. The…
Faster and faster: The pace of climate change keeps surprising us
This seems like the 10th time that I’ve read a story that says Greenland’s glaciers are melting faster than previously thought and thus the consequences of climate change are moving much more…
Cost Of Extreme Weather – 2 Million deaths And $4 Trillion Over Last 50 Years
Over two million deaths and $4.3 trillion in economic losses; that’s the impact of a half-century of extreme weather events turbo-charged by man-made global warming, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)…
WMO Warning: 1.5 Degree C Warming Breach Very Soon & With Increasing Frequency. Act Now!
In 2015 the Paris Climate Change Conference decided that the world must take urgent action to ideally contain global warming to plus 1.5 degrees Centigrade (plus 1.5C) and to less…
The Old Future Is Gone, and Technology Won’t Bring It Back
As we begin the second year of “In Real Time,” the future doesn’t look very promising. Almost one-third of US states have plunged into one-party authoritarian rule, and many…
Climate change and water crisis
Water crisis is not only a problem of our country but of the entire world. According to the United Nations. Today, 26 percent of the world's population faces a crisis…
The Ocean Heat Bomb Ignites
For the first time that scientists can recall, sea surface temperatures that always recede from annual peaks are failing to do so, staying high Global warming and extensive overfishing…
Peace for Environment Protection—Great Opportunities Missed Earlier Can Still be Realized
Many thoughtful people of world very rightly say today that the resolving of climate change and other inter-related serious environmental problems should get exceedingly high priority today as these threaten…
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…
Record-breaking Heatwaves Likely To Cause Most Harm In Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, and Central America
A new study has highlighted under-prepared regions across the world most at risk of the devastating effects of scorching temperatures. The University of Bristol-led research report (Thompson, V., Mitchell, D.,…
Our Rapidly Changing Climate Mitigation Situation
The persistent La Niña of the past three years is rapidly cycling into the El Niño phase. There are indications that it could become a major El Niño which could…
Sociology: Guide to Analysis or to Action in the Global Climate Change Crisis? A Call for Action by the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Climate change and environmental destruction is becoming an increasing threat to the well-being if not survival of a growing number of people around the world; it literally threatens the lives…
The Elephant In The Room: The Global Economy drives the Climate Crisis
A perspective On World Earth Day 2023, a few dozen members of the 8-billion-and-counting Homo Sapiens species, met in an insignificantly tiny spot on Planet Earth. They met at the…
Avoiding Climate Disaster: Our Last Chance?
The most recent IPCC report https://countercurrents.org/2023/04/2023-ipcc-ar6-summary-for-policymakers-last-warning/?swcfpc=1 https://popularresistance.org/ipcc-this-is-the-make-or-break-decade-for-climate-action/ https://popularresistance.org/does-climate-inaction-violate-human-rights/ https://countercurrents.org/2023/04/making-sense-of-the-latest-ipcc-report-2023/?swcfpc=1 The report states that globally “approximately 3.3 to 3.6 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change.”…
Sailing on Planet Titanic
As I sit down to write this, April 15, 2023, it is 111 years to the day since the RMS Titanic sank beneath the waves of the North Atlantic. The…
Capitalism Is Killing the Planet―and It’s Okay To Be Angry About That
After a decade in the climate movement, one tends to get pretty good at avoiding the clawing hands of despair. It’s not that they’re not there, of course—the fear and…
Stories of permafrost
“If something is permanently frozen, is it alive or dead?” After emerging from a deep dive into the terrific world of melting permafrost, typically defined as “ground (soil or rock…
Monster Heat Hits 1/3rd of World Population
It has started, and it’s fierce… Monster Heat! “It’s a ‘monster heat spell like none before,” according to climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera, describing Asia’s heatwave as the worst…
On Earth Day, A 20-Point Plan to Definitely Resolve the Climate Crisis
World Earth Day (April 22) is a good time to suggest solutions for the climate crisis, so here is a 20-point plan that will definitely solve the climate crisis within…
El Niño Threatens Unparalleled Heatwaves
Can the world handle a climate that exceeds the far-reaching excesses of 2022 when the entire world turned upside down with unprecedented flooding, fires, and drought? NOAA and climate researchers…
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakkaam, G20 and Climate Change
Climate change is a global issue and the task to elevate the climate catastrophe is a common responsibility. The recent disasters of rising sea levels in the island countries, irreparable…
Atlanta’s “Cop City” and the Struggle for Climate Justice
Along the South River, in the southwest corner of DeKalb County, Georgia, lies a forested area of about 300 acres that has been owned by the nearby City of Atlanta…
Disturbing Sea Level Studies
For decades, climate scientists have been sounding the alarm that unless the nations of the world stop emitting greenhouse gases global warming will bring dangerous consequences. Rather, greenhouse gases, like…
Can You Fight for Climate Justice Without Being Antiwar?
Can organizations sincerely say they are leading the climate justice fight without also being unapologetically antiwar? Short answer – no. Here’s why. We cannot end climate change without ending war.…
Pakistan’s poor governance amid Climate Change
Pakistan faced the horrors of climate change in the form of disastrous floods of 2022. According to the report of the National Disaster Management Authority, the country witnessed over 166mm…
Call For A Radically Different Relationship – Homo Sapiens / Planet Earth
Albert Einstein told us that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.We now have an existential problem that our thinking has created; Biosphere…
2023 IPCC AR6 Summary For Policymakers: Last Warning
The Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) has recently been released including a detailed 36-page Summary for Policymakers. Section A summarizes what is known of the observed…
Tinpot Legislators – Their One-Party Rule Will Be Ruinous for the Earth
The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had “financed or helped finance 62 percent of…
Making Sense of the Latest IPCC Report (2023)
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a UN agency with climatologists from over 70 counties included) has just come out with a new report about climate change. (Available at…
The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions
We all know what needs to be done: reduce carbon emissions. But so far, we members of global humanity just haven't been able to turn the tide. The latest IPCC report documents…
Climate Crisis Has Caused Increasingly Irreversible Losses, Says UN Report
"Urgent" actions are needed to counter human-caused climate change, says a new report released Monday by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report said: Climate change has caused…
Amazon Rainforest Destabilizes the World
A new 40-year study discovered the eye-opening fact that what happens in the Amazon Rainforest impacts the entire Earth system. This puts an exclamation point on the fact that the…
Linking Climate Action to Decolonization and Degrowth
Billion-dollar disaster was the term used to describe the climate breakdown that rocked our world last year. Floods in Pakistan droughts in China and Europe and tropical cyclones in…
Climate Policy’s on Shaky Ground in the Farm Bill
Members of Congress have begun drafting the 2023 “Farm Bill,” and they’ll be wrangling over it through most of the year. This legislation, passed into law anew every fifth year…
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