A new US government report delivers a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts, saying the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars — or, in the worst-case scenario, more than 10% of its…
Category: Environment
We all have that one friend who uses localised weather, particularly cold snaps, as evidence climate change isn’t happening. This week, that friend was President Donald Trump. He took to Twitter to ask “whatever happened…
It stinks, it is the most polluted city on earth, but that is not the most terrible thing about it. You can drive for ten or even twenty kilometers through it, and see only ugliness,…
I appreciate the numerous emails thanking me for providing an understandable explanation of the global warming scenario. The book, Unprecedented Crime, about which I reported, caused me to start thinking more seriously about man-made global warming….
The tobacco companies’ response to the US Surgeon General’s report in 1964 linking smoking to lung cancer was countered by the tobacco companies setting up propaganda organizations to create a controversy by generating doubt over…
Researchers from Washington State University have published a new report of the Great Drought, the most destructive known drought of the past 800 years – and how it sparked the Global Famine that claimed the lives of 50 million…
But still no one is talking about it. Climate change has pulled the chair out from underneath the Arctic Ocean’s blanket of sea ice. Once a thick and resilient structure, Arctic sea ice is now…
A major new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was just released in Korea on October 8 (2018). Although it is nearly 800 pages long and includes more than 6,000 scientific references, it…
In 1969, US President Richard Nixon ended all offensive aspects of the US bio-weapons program — the first category of weapons prohibited by an international treaty. In 1975, the US ratified both the 1925 Geneva…
Boosted by its victory in the Cold War, the United States has allowed hubris to dominate its foreign-policy decision making. The United States sanctioned Beijing for purchasing Russian military equipment. Does the administration really believe…