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Surviving climate chaos: Shelter in place or flee to safety?

By Erik Curren | January 20, 2014

Yellowknife street

As scientists continue to revise their climate predictions for the worse, it's clear that the time has passed for the world to avoid serious consequences from global warming. With superstorms and floods competing with droughts and wildfires to break records somewhere around the world year-round, the weather is already getting pretty weird. So now, the real question is how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Climate Tagged With: California, Canada, climate refugee, James Lovelock, Jeff Goodell, Miami, Seattle, Texas, Yellowknife

Against the specialist, the expert and the technocrat

By Erik Curren | November 18, 2013

technology is a given

In these days of ecological overshoot, about the only experts I can abide are climate scientists. Without the facts we get from scientists, what would we say to climate science deniers? So I'm glad to see more climate scientists step out of the ivory tower in the world's hour of need. But sometimes I wish even climate brainiacs would stick to their labs and leave public … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: experts, Fukushima, James Hansen, James Lovelock, nuclear power, Sir Albert Howard

Censored scientists, dirty politics and the nuclear distraction

By Erik Curren | March 11, 2011

Storms of my Grandchildren cover

As the world's most famous climatologist and perennial thorn in the side of Fox News, coal barons and climate change deniers everywhere, James Hansen's credentials are impeccable. I've admired his pluck in standing up for sound science against political intimidation for years. At Transition Voice, we've been fortunate to cross-post a couple of his columns. But recently, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: activism, climate change, corporations, George W. Bush, James Hansen, James Lovelock, nuclear power

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