Etiqueta: Climate Change

  • Earth Tipping Point Study In Nature Journal Predicts Disturbing And Unpredictable Changes

    This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Earth is rapidly headed toward a catastrophic breakdown if humans don’t get their act together, according to an international group of scientists. Writing Wednesday (June 6) in the journal Nature, the researchers…

  • How not to change a climate sceptic’s mind

    The Pandemic of Consumerism HOW do you get your point across over an issue as contentious as climate change? As a hearing in the US Congress last week showed, the evidence alone is not enough. At issue was the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Republicans in the House and…

  • The Pandemic of Consumerism

    Spanish>> Periods of global warming are not in and of themselves a human invention. But humans have invented ways of turning a natural cycle into an abnormality whose severity can exceed the tragedy of one atomic bomb or even of several atomic bombs. However, we cannot see the explosion because we live in it, because it seems to be an…