Archive for Scaremongering

Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thurs, 2009 May 21, 7 pm
Sanford Fleming Building, Lecture Hall #1105
University of Toronto
10 King’s College Road

Thomas Homer-Dixon is the author of Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future.  Adriana will be there.     Read more »

A recent report in The Lancet, a top medical journal, concludes that the health impacts of climate change will eclipse all other health concerns.  CBC and the Globe and Mail have carried the story in Canada.  You can find more information about the Lancet / University College London collaboration here.

I know that ardent environmentalists and climate change deniers alike accuse Al Gore of not living up to his own standards, but he does compile some very graphically compelling images of the problem we are facing.  Here is his latest.

The EU has come to the conclusion that climate change is very dangerous.

As we attempt to preserve as much as we can of an economy that relies on enormous and cheap energy inputs, there is a temptation to turn to all kinds of desperate measures.  It has long been a concern of mine that energy crops will compete directly with food crops, to preserve a high-energy lifestyle for the world’s rich at the cost of food for the world’s poor.

Here‘s a UK report that suggests that food shortages will hit the world before climate change affects us.