Saturday, November 5, 2011

Huge Chunk of Antarctic Ice Sheet Set to Break Free

Christian Science Monitor - Nov 5
A 300-square-mile portion of the Pine Island Glacier is expected to break off in the next few months, creating a massive Antarctic iceberg. The glacier is contributing to sea-level rise. Details here. 
A close-up view of the crack spreading across the ice shelf of Pine Island 
Glacier captured by the Digital Mapping System (DMS) aboard NASA's DC-8 

Jump In Greenhouse Gases Is Biggest Ever Seen - U.S. Department Of Energy

Huff  Post Green - SETH BORENSTEIN 
WASHINGTON — The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. Details here.
  (Above) Big trucks, motors running, wait 
for their Big Macs at a Macdonald's 
"drive-thru" in Winnipeg. (PLT photo.)

Monday, October 31, 2011

7 Billion and Counting: Welcome to a Planet With Population Overload and Resources in Crisis

Scott Thill / AlterNet
 The definition of overpopulation has less to do with raw numbers of people than their relationship with the planet's sustainable resources. Details here.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Skeptic's Own Study Finds Climate Change Real, but says Scientists Should be More Critical

By: Seth Borenstein, Winnipeg Free Press - 10/30/2011
WASHINGTON - A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Details here.

Controversial chicken ‘megafarms’ in the UK given millions in government handouts.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Campaigners call for more sustainable system after revelations that huge farms near the Wye and Sever...