Ronald Prinn, the co-director of the Joint Program and director of MIT’s Center for Global Change Science, said, it is important “to base our opinions and policies on the peer-reviewed science…. There’s no way the world can or should take these risks.” Duh!

An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces

"The single biggest failure of messaging by climate scientists (until very recently) has been the failure to explain to the public, opinion makers, and the media that business-as-usual warming results in simultaneous, ever-worsening impacts that, individually, are each beyond catastrophic, but combined are unimaginablly horrific. For these impacts, terms like “global warming” and “climate change” are essentially euphemisms. That is why I have preferred the term “Hell and High Water.”."

Three of the best recent analyses of what we are headed towards can be found here:

• M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F — with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F
• Hadley Center: “Catastrophic” 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path
• Our hellish future: Definitive NOAA-led report on U.S. climate impacts warns of scorching 9 to 11°F warming over most of inland U.S. by 2090 with Kansas above 90°F some 120 days a year — and that isn’t the worst case, it’s business as usual!

Please pass this climate change article to your "Uncle Bob".

"So I just don’t get it. Do you really think it’s wise to bet the future of our planet on the hope that 97 percent of climate scientists are wrong? Why not seek solutions while we can?"   

Soapbox: An open letter to Uncle Bob regarding climate change 

Todd Mitchell is a Fort Collins resident.

We all know an "Uncle Bob/Aunt Bobbie" and he or she needs to understand what is happening now. As a species we have managed to survive calamity beyond my imagination. Some of those disasters were natural, most were caused by humankind's constant want of more. Now nature itself is changing because of our unquenchable thirst.

However you look at it, God or no, we have only this one Earth. By chance or divine intervention, here we are on this perfect planet, and it came with all these resources. They looked unlimited when all we could do was stand on a hill. Now we understand how small and isolated Earth is.

We all must start making conscious decisions about our future, our children's future, humanity's future. You had better start now. It will only be getting worse. We can no longer prevent the "Hot Generation". We twiddled our thumbs to the facts and chose to believe the lies. "Someone else will take care of it." we thought. Now all we can do is try to prevent the "last generation".

So, as my father used to say (His name was Bob, a different kind of Bob) "Get up off your dead asses and do something!" You have seen the children suffering famine with their eyes hopelessly pleading? They are looking at you. The mother holding her dead child mouthing the word "Why?". She is asking you. And if you don't DEMAND CHANGE, imagine those images from the news when you look in the mirror.

What is disaster on Earth looks beautiful to the Universe. We are small and we have no place to go.

Gorgeous Glimpses of Calamity

Do you have family born after June 23, 1988? Generation Hot includes hardship, disaster, disease and death.

In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.

CT flood home insurance rates increase and you are paying for them.

Is your flood insurance raising in CT?

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's new "flood" maps are slowly being rolled out to communities across the state. The changes, which take effect Oct. 1, could mean significant premiums to some property owners.

And you Pay!

Something for the scientists

ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF INCREASING ELECTRIC GRID RESILIENCE TO WEATHER OUTAGES

They are burning your food in their cars!

Ethanol quotas pump money from your pocket

Oppose fracking wherever it is.

Are We Trading Our Health For Oil in New, Fracking-Induced California Gold Rush?

 

40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World.

40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

What you should do: 1. Do a little reading on climate change. 2. Get in touch with those who represent you.

Climate change: Evidence, Impact and Choices

The cost of solar power is coming down.

Chart of the day: sliding U.S. solar prices

Now is the time we need science if we want a future.

Sequestration Ushers In A Dark Age For Science In America

If climate change is so dangerous and eminent, why aren't people worried?

Why do we worry too much about some environmental risks and not enough about others?

Mental Shortcuts

Big decisions based on little information

Answer the following questions with yes or no:

1. Are pesticides a serious threat to public health?

2. Is genetically modified food a serious threat to public health?

3. Is bisphenol A (a chemical ingredient of plastics, also used to line food cans) a serious threat to public health?

Now, the most important question:

4. Did you have all the facts you needed to make a fully informed, analytical, reasoned decision about any of the first three questions?

Please don't be willfully blind to the dangers of climate change!!

Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of "willful blindness"

But if sea level is capable of rising several feet per century, as Dr. O’Leary’s paper would seem to imply and as many other scientists believe, then babies being born now could live to see the early stages of a global calamity.

The fast-retreating Sheldon Glacier in Antarctica. A collapse of a polar ice sheet could result in a jump in sea level.

It's breathing, he thought. "All of a sudden I see a thing with a heartbeat."

This Pulsing Earth

Climate change affects your family. Your mother needs your help.

Climate Change Indicators in the United States

The Earth's climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and more extreme climate events—like heavy rainstorms and record high temperatures—are already affecting society and ecosystems. 

Time = Money. Looking at small changes mathematically.

Q&A: Gary Lauder, venture capitalist, on designing the future as if time mattered

Turn up the heat on climate denial - Environmental Action

"A schoolchild can tell that the planet is getting warmer, and that human carbon pollution is the cause. Apparently, that simple truth is too difficult a concept for some members of Congress, like Iowa's Steve King. He recently told a Koch Brothers' group "if sea levels go up 4 or 6 inches, I don’t know if we’d know that.”*

In fact, unless we act now, climate change could cause sea level rise up to 69 FEET,more than enough to be apparent even from Iowa.** Unlike King, actual scientists know that if we do nothing, a 6-foot rise in sea level could put cities from Galveston, Texas, to  Miami, Fla. to Atlantic City, N.J., under water by 2030. ***"

First Sci-fi and now Cli-fi (or "Sci-fi gets hot.)

So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created A New Literary Genre?

Odds is the latest in what seems to be an emerging literary genre. Over the past decade, more and more writers have begun to set their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth's systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — "cli-fi," for short.