World Missing Environmental Goals in ‘Paralysis of Indecision’ - Bloomberg

Floods more than tripled from the 1980s to the 2000s...Lower agricultural yields caused by air pollution costs the planet as much as $26 billion a year, according to the UN.

Twitter / omnologos: How to read a @guardianeco

How to read a @guardianeco report/article: (1) wait a few days (2) see it debunked (3) read the report/article, laugh at its flawed content.

Tom Levenson Michael Mann Virtually Speaking Science 06/06 by Jay Ackroyd | Blog Talk Radio

Host Tom Levenson (Inverse Square & Balloon Juice) talks with physicist and climatologist Michael E. Mann

M&S becomes 'carbon neutral' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The company says it is now fully carbon neutral, after reducing energy usage by 28% through more efficient refrigeration, and counting renewable energy tariffs and offsetting.

Sea less vulnerable to CO2 13 mn years ago: Study | newKerala.com, 33816

About five to 13 million years ago (late Miocene period), oceans were warmer than they are today -- even though atmospheric CO2 concentrations were considerably lower.

The unusual mismatch between sea temperatures and CO2 levels during this period hints that the relationship between climate and CO2 hasn't always been the same as it is today, said Petra Dekens, study co-author, the journal Nature reports.

Alice In Wonderland: UNEP Warns Of New “Tipping Points” Being Reached

Isn’t that just fantastic “Mad Hatter” reasoning? We’ve had more than seven hundred international agreements on environmental protection and apparently things are still getting worse. So apparently the problem is that we don’t have enough of them, we need more international agreements, and they need to be stricter. Much stricter, and much more wide-ranging in scope.

Since when did a pop culture meme like the ‘tipping point’ become suitable for discussing serious scientific ideas?