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Jan 7, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Neha Saigal |Robert Hunziker |Bill Henderson
Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts the earth, and poisons its nourishing rivers. For those benefiting from plunder and bounty, change is a hard thing to accept. Kleptocrats and the extractive industries, renters of land, and those wishing to make off with the earth’s booty take poorly to dissidents keen to point out this fact.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Cesar Uco |Soma Marla |Bill Henderson
Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, is underway and expects 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’ biggest threat to continued existence. For over 30 years, climate change conference commitments to do something constructive have been embarrassing flops. What will Climate Week/NYC come up with to fix a broken climate system that’s been decades in the making?
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Cesar Uco |Soma Marla |Bill Henderson |Laurence Tubiana
by Cesar Uco and Don KnowandForest fires have consumed millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and the illegal burning of forests and pastures. Peru alone has experienced 173 fires in 22 out of its 24 departments. The most affected departments are located in the north of the country, specifically Cajamarca, Amazonas, and San Martin, where the indigenous communities of the Awajún live.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Soma Marla |Bill Henderson |Laurence Tubiana |Bharat Dogra
Everyone agrees to the fact that Climate change is caused principally by the burning of fossil fuels. These fuels are consumed by Capital although the industrial development especially during the last hundred years. Powerful Western nations and big capital instead of elimination of harmful use of hydrocarbons are suggesting other green washing technologies as a solution. Still a s small window is open to mitigate climate crisis.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bill Henderson |Laurence Tubiana |Bharat Dogra |Soumyanetra Munshi
There is a very important new climate science paper which promises to dramatically increase concern about potential impacts and needed mitigation. Bill McKibben titles his review of the paper ‘The big, big, big, big, big picture’ because it is a new way of assessing the global mean surface temperature (GMST) of the last 485 million years of the vast expanse of the 539 million year Phanerozoic eon.
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May 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Jane Little |Andrew Glikson |Bill Henderson
World heat is worse than ever. The entire planet is sweating. Every summer is hot but never like this. In America, it’s a national election year in the face of global record heat. What are candidates’ positions on CO2-infused heat? Graph by Brian Brettschneider, PhD, ClimatologistIt’s extremely significant that global heat is just as bad in the world’s oceans, which have absorbed 85-90% of planetary heat, serving as a heat reservoir for decades. But now, the ocean’s starting to strut its hot stuff.
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May 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Jane Little |Andrew Glikson |Bill Henderson
NAPM demands urgent government action to protect millions of outdoor workers from extreme heat and heatwaves, declaration of heatwaves as Climatic Disaster, and provision of disaster allowance to financially-affected workers21st May, 2024: Across India, the ‘election heat’ has caught up, which is rightly visible to all of us.
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May 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Jane Little |Andrew Glikson |Bill Henderson
“Deep below the glistening surface of a frozen Arctic lake, something is bubbling—something that could cause global warming to accelerate beyond all previous projections… Now the freezer door is opening, releasing the carbon into Arctic lake bottoms. Microbes digest it, convert it to methane, and the lakes essentially burp out methane.’ Scientists estimate that permafrost holds up to 950 billion tons of carbon.
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May 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jane Little |Andrew Glikson |Robert Hunziker |Bill Henderson
When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local newspapers represents a danger to democracy. Running the once-a-week Record from the Panhandle town of Canadian, she certainly knew something about the rise of “news deserts” in this country.
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May 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Andrew Glikson |Robert Hunziker |Bill Henderson |Bharat Dogra
Where “Two plus two equals five if the party says so” (George Orwell) and when drilling wells reduces global warmingHaving turned a blind eye to climate science, ignoring the evidence that extreme atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) rise and ocean acidification have led to of species through time, humanity allows an exponential growth of carbon emissions to track toward a global suicide marked by false pretexts and betrayal by the powers that be.
