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- Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other existential planetary boundaries
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Author Archives: energyskeptic
Richard Heinberg
Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on A Public Affair I think the likelihood of a coherent national, government-led strategy to adapt to the end of cheap energy and to the end of easy credit and so on is just … Continue reading
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Richard Heinberg vs Tom Athanasiou: Peak Oil or Climate Emergency?
Debate Dec 15, 2011 between Richard Heinberg (Post Carbon Institute) and Tom Athanasiou (Earth Island Institute) at the David Brower Center. Peak Oil or Climate Emergency? We know we’re in Big Trouble. But What Kind Exactly? Climate change books and articles … Continue reading
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Fungi killed most of world’s trees during runaway greenhouse Permian Extinction
Marshall, M. 20 Aug 2011. Mass-extinction fungi could turn on trees again. NewScientist. “During Earth’s biggest mass extinction 250 million years ago, usually tame soil fungi ran amok, decimating most of the world’s trees. A repeat is possible, if climate … Continue reading
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Loss of Top Predators
James A. Estes, et al. 15 Jul 2011. Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth. Science vol 333. Before men, large predators and herbivores had huge influences on nature across land, ocean, and fresh water ecosystems. Their loss has a “trophic cascade” … Continue reading
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Bakken Shale and U.S. Oil Production
Roger Blanchard. 26 Dec 2011. ASPO-USA peak oil newsletter On Sept. 25, 2011 National Public Radio’s All Things Considered program had a segment consisting of what I considered highly questionable information concerning oil production in the Bakken Shale region of … Continue reading
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Departments of Descent
RAYMOND DE YOUNG “As it becomes more acceptable to openly talk about the need to downshift our personal material expectations, a few geographic locations (e.g., Flint, Detroit) will come to realize this same need exists at the community level. In … Continue reading
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When will the decline of oil begin, at what rate?
If the German Peak Oil report is correct, once investors believe oil production is declining, that will be the end of the stock market, since growth can no longer occur and debts be repaid. The financial system is precarious enough … Continue reading
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Climate Change: creatures collide, compete, parasitize one another
Climate change models of biodiversity loss are underestimating future extinctions, because as animals move around they compete and parasitize each other. Already animals and plants that can’t handle increasing temperatures are moving to cooler places. Some can’t move fast enough … Continue reading
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Dennis Meadows “Learning to Live within Limits”
Steven W. Running at the University of Montana wrote in the Sep 21, 2012 issue of Science: “Forty years ago, Meadows et al. published a landmark first analysis of global limits to human activity (Meadows). Based on a primitive computer … Continue reading
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Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize Winner. Natural Selection will destroy us.
Clint Witchalls. 28 Feb 2011. Biology Nobelist: Natural selection will destroy us. NewScientist. We have evolved traits that will lead to humanity’s extinction, says Christian de Duve – so we must learn to overcome them We are the most successful … Continue reading
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