TURNBULL AND GREENS MUST STOP POLITICKING ON AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES Despite their assertions, it is clear that natural fires are quite rare and that the vast majority of vegetation fires arise from human causes, including deliberate arson. Statistics suggest that reducing deliberately lit bush fires would have a significant influence on the total number of […]
Month: January 2020
DOOMSDAY CLOCK EVER CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT
THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS WITHIN ONE HUNDRED SECONDS OF MIDNIGHT According to the United Nations the greatest level of peril to humanity since its creation in 1947 is the threat posed by climate change and the growing nuclear threat. On climate, two major UN summits fell dismally short of the action required to limit the […]
AS GOES FOSSIL FUELS AS GOES HUMANITY
POPULATION GROWTH BEGAN WITH FOSSIL FUELS To a first approximation, everything we’ve done since 1900, including agriculture, has been the result of our use of fossil fuels. The biophysical driver of fossil fuel energy transcends all political boundaries and philosophies. Fossil fuels have supplied 89% of the total primary energy used throughout the world over […]
PRE-INDUSTRIAL TEMPERATURE NOT CERTAIN
ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING ABOUT ONE DEGREE ABOVE PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS But what if global temperatures exceed the tipping point for one or two years and then drop away like they have in the past, just as they had during the thirty nine year cooling period that took place between 194o-1979, despite a rapid increase in GHG emissions […]