Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Saturday, May 31, 2014

How many deaths could result from failure to act on climate change?

A recent OECD study concludes that outdoor air pollution is killing more than 3.5 million people a year globally. The OECD estimates that p...
Monday, October 28, 2013

How Do We Act in the Face of Climate Chaos?

Guy McPherson Guy R. McPherson  is  Professor Emeritus  of Natural Resources and  Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at University of Arizo...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Arctic melt hits food security in bitter taste of life on a hotter planet

by David Spratt Arctic melt has pushed the Jet Stream into  a more meandering, S-shape pattern, dragging  down and stalling cold and wet con...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Open Letter to Canadian MPs

Paul Beckwith Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold. The world food situation is deteriorating. Grain stocks have dropped to a dangerous...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

How to avert an intensifying food crisis

As extreme weather intensifies, the food crisis intensifies. Storms and floods do damage to crops and cause erosion of fertile topsoil, in t...

The certain catastrophic effects of allowing the Arctic snow summer sea ice to melt away

Image by Peter Carter of the  Climate Emergency Institute
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Threat to global food supply makes comprehensive action imperative

Climate change is strongly affecting the Arctic and the resulting changes to the polar vortex and jet stream are in turn contributing to ext...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Food Emergency

Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Food Emergency a video by Peter Carter of ArcticClimateEmergency.com
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Temperature rise projections

The Climate Emergency Institute  recently produced the image below. For more background, see the institute's page on the warming that Ea...