Tag Archives: Global Warming

Bruce Melton : I Want a Sequestration Machine for Christmas!

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Climate intrigue and a change in prosperity:I want a sequestration machine for Christmas By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 23, 2010 Climate change is not just another dangerous dead-end road … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : Catastrophic Change and Climate Blindness

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Iceberg discharge is accelerating rapidly in Greenland. Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Climate blindness By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 2, 2010 Bruce Melton will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, Dec. 3, … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : Climate Change and Global Economic Dysfunction

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Smokestack blues. Image from Planet Green.Smokestack blues:Confronting dangerous climate change By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / November 28, 2010 Bruce Melton will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, 2-3 p.m. (CST), on KOOP … Continue reading →

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Roger Baker : American Political Denial and the ‘Downsizing of Civilization’

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Gas 2.0. “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel. I drive a Mercedes. My son drives a Mercedes. His son will ride a camel.” — Saudi warning Our only hope may lie in crisis:American politics … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : Climate Science’s New Paradigm

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

It’s the cars! Traffic in Houston. Image from City-Data.com.It’s cars, not coal: The new paradigm of climate science By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / October 28, 2010 The science has changed again. This time, things are really upside … Continue reading →

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Amy Goodman : Climate Change is the Real Deal

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

This Greenland glacier split in two, sending a 100 sqare mile iceberg floating off into the Arctic Ocean. Image from Mirror, U.K.News at 11:How climate change affects you By Amy Goodman / August 13, 2010 Our daily weather reports, cheerfully … Continue reading →

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Harvey Wasserman : Why Stewart Brand is Wrong on Nukes

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Greenopolis.Reinventing the Brand:Whole Earth icon isDead wrong on nukesBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / July 25, 2010 Stewart Brand has become a poster boy for a “nuclear renaissance” that has just suffered a quiet but stunning … Continue reading →

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Chris Hedges : The Attack of the Future Eaters

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from AppleBazaar.Calling all future-eaters:Time is not on our side By Chris Hedges / July 21, 2010 The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler … Continue reading →

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Gulf Oil Spill : Toxic Popsicle or Extinction Event?

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

A speckled crab — and an American flag — are encased in a thick layer of oil just offshore from the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Photo from BP Slick.Methane in the Gulf:Is the oil spill a toxic popsicle Or … Continue reading →

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Climate Change : Ten Times Faster than Predicted

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Greenpeace / UK.Climate change:Worse than the worst case scenarioBy Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / June 16, 2010 It takes 196,000 pounds of plants to produce a gallon of gasoline. It takes 40 acres of plants, roots, … Continue reading →

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Austin Heat : Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet?

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Report:Extreme summer heat andIrreversible ecosystem demise Austin’s summers will be a third more extreme than those of the Sonoran Desert and about 10 times more extreme than the normal Texas Hill Country summers. By Bruce Melton / April 5, 2010 … Continue reading →

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Earth to Obama : Nuclear Just Can’t Cut It

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Dreamscape VII by Midnight-digital / Flickr / The End of Capitalism. Not in your wildest dreams:Five reasons nuclear just isn’t sustainable By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2010 President Obama recently announced an $8.3 billion loan … Continue reading →

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