Tag: Earth sciences

  • The Philippines Disrupts China’s Scientific Research in Xianbin Jiao

    The video obtained by GT shows how the Philippine side dangerously disrupted and intervened in China’s scientific research in waters off China’s Xianbin Jiao in the #SouthChinaSea. Similar actions occurred when China conducted marine ecosystem research in Ren’ai Jiao. The post The Philippines Disrupts China’s Scientific Research in Xianbin Jiao first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • The Future of Our World by Noam Chomsky

    Noam Chomsky (95) famous dissident and father of modern linguistics, considered one of the world’s leading intellectuals, is recovering from a stroke he suffered at age 94 and now living with his wife in Brazil. According to a report in Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now d/d July 2, 2024, this past June Brazilian President Lula personally […]

  • Methane Emissions “Fastest in Decades”

    A new study shows methane (CH4) emissions behaving like a sprinter on speed, setting decadal records. This is bad news. It’s 80-times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat. Global emissions of methane, a powerful planet-heating gas, are ‘rising rapidly’ at the fastest rate in decades, requiring immediate action to help avert a dangerous escalation […]

  • Olympian Ordure: Swimming and Shitting in the Seine

    Swimming, or dipping, in faecal polluted waters is not unusual.  The spirit longs for purity in the staining aqua, and the body keeps pace with it.  The Ganges, for instance, features sacred rites and ceremonies defiant of science.  In an aqueous body of lingering corpses, thickening pollutants and full flowing faeces, foolhardy believers can find […]

  • Building a Planet of Peace Is the Only Realistic Thing to Do

    Beatriz González (Colombia), Señor presidente, qué honor estar con usted en este momento histórico (‘Mr President, What an Honour to Be with You in This Historic Moment’), 1987. There are times in life when you want to set aside complexity and return to the essence of things. Last week, I was on a boat in […]

  • At the Edge of Apocalypse

    Biblical flooding, scorching heat, collapsing grid system, animals crumbling, waters rising, crops wilting, economy on the brink, and millions displaced. Welcome to the future of climate change… Pakistan. If one could classify a global warming beta test as a success towards an ultimate goal of apocalypse, unfortunately, it has turned Pakistan into a country populated […]

  • Chomsky and UN Forewarnings Revisited

    I recently attended a family affair in Upstate NY and was informed that climate change articles, like this one, are too negative, causing close relatives to shutdown and going so far as to ignore articles, too gloomy, too negative, do something more positive. My response: Analyzing the planet’s climate system by studying peer-reviewed scientific publications […]

  • Last Rites for a Dying Civilization

    Last Rites for a Dying Civilization

    When the Black Death struck Europe in the Middle Ages, the fundamental values that held society together broke down. Husbands and wives abandoned each other and mothers abandoned their children. This void of ethics that overtook the population is described in Boccaccio’s The Decameron, considered a masterpiece of Italian prose and a documentary of life […]

  • Where’s the Water?

    “Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting,” a popular adage from the chronicles of the American West that’s starting to come back into vogue. The world’s megacities are on a knife’s edge of water stress. Climate change is clobbering water resources and testing the nerves of the world, especially megacities; e.g., Mexico City (pop. 22 […]

  • Brazil’s Flood of Austerity and Climate Catastrophe

    Padre Josimo Settlement From 28 April, heavy rains, strong winds, and widespread flooding have lashed the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, killing over 160 people and impacting 2.3 million. The waters rose and rose again, rushing through houses and fields, erasing not only homes and the memories built there but also many […]

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