Fun With CO2 in Greenland - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Elizabeth: “Party is over, deniers. Has been for a long, long time. No matter what way you try to manipulate this, you’re losing.”

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Okay, so I agree with you, somehow. But does this mean that we are going to go for a future that is solar, windy, and otherwise renewable, or does this mean that we’re bound to keep destroying this world like we do these days, simply because it is the way of our...

August

Dot Earthers Face to Face - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

It’s worth remembering that the biosphere takes up and emits about 15 times as much carbon dioxide per year as is released by burning fossil fuels.

However, the biosphere operates in steady state mode - for example, trees produce leaves in the spring and drop them in the fall - and then the leaves are converted back to CO2 and other nutrients by fungi and bacteria. Thus, over thousands of years, there has been little...

August

Dot Earthers Face to Face - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Just a sobering reminder there is tremendous work to be done. James Kanter has a piece in today’s NY Times.

“BARCELONA, Spain — An “extinction crisis” is under way, with one in four mammals in danger of disappearing because of habitat loss, hunting and climate change, a leading global conservation body warned Monday.

“Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions,”...

August