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Are people ignoring the IPCC’s climate warnings? Why?

William P. Hall on March 8, 2022

Even the very conservative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says billions of people will suffer direct harm from ongoing global warming. Are they getting the message? Although their science is impeccable, I have explained in detail that the IPCC is …

Catastrophic risks are bad news for your insurance

William P. Hall on March 6, 2022

There is no good news in the IPCC’s AR6 pt II report on impacts of ongoing global warming. If frequent, catastrophic risks will be uninsurable. The problem with most extreme weather events like wildfire, floods, droughts, cyclones, etc., is that …

Latest IPCC report shows we’re on road to Hell

William P. Hall on March 4, 2022

IPCC’s Sixth Assessment WG2 Report looks at climate change’s global and regional impacts on ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities On February 28 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) officially launched the second of three parts of their Sixth Assessment …

We’ve seen nothing yet: NB4 flooding in Qld & NSW

William P. Hall on February 28, 2022

Plus long-hot summer in WA. Continued global warming will make weather ever more extreme and lethal. LNP still shoveling coal on the fire. As I write this, there are already 7 weather-related deaths in Queensland with flood levels still rising …

Too late already? The frozen Arctic is burning now!

William P. Hall on February 27, 2022

The sensational title describes reality. World’s largest carbon store, peat covering permafrost, is now burning year-round through midwinter The featured graphic above shows a false-color picture of an active fire burning on a forested area of permafrost in the drainage …

Ocean carbon sinks capture and sequester quite well

William P. Hall on February 17, 2022

The world’s oceans offer important and effective natural means to capture carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the ocean depths There is significant evidence that the rate of global warming is already showing signs that it is at …

Has an abrupt methane spike started?

William P. Hall on February 11, 2022

In a new Nature News article scientists consider a dangerously fast rise in atmospheric methane (= methane spike) from natural rather than human sources The physical observations in this article present us with a very important choice, accept the evidence …

Capt. Humbug is beseiged — even ignoring what really matters

William P. Hall on February 5, 2022

Global warming threatens human survival. Scotty from Marketing does nothing to help mobilize climate action but everything to stop it…. Katharine Murphy’s list of political liabilities Scotty from Marketing is trying make disappear with blather, smoke and mirrors, and endless …

Thawing permafrost in the Arctic warns we are probably crossing several critical tipping points on the road to runaway warming and near-term human extinction

William P. Hall on February 2, 2022

Part 6 of David Spratt’s guidebook to events along the road to Hothouse Hell: Burning Siberian tundra, taiga forests and peat soils are all contributing to thawing permafrost and pushing greenhouse gas emissions past an important tipping point Spratt focuses …

Dying coral reefs and collapsing reef ecosystems: evidence of more progress towards the point of no return on the way to Hothouse extinction

William P. Hall on February 2, 2022

Part 5 of David Spratt’s guidebook to events along the road to Hothouse Hell: Increasingly frequent and stronger marine heatwaves are bleaching and killing corals, architects of reef ecosystems. Rotting organic matter emits GHGs Coral polyps are the primary architects …