Planet Restart: Living With Climate Change

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Planet Restart: Living With Climate Change

Why Planet Restart?

Too many Americans think climate change isn't important. Why? Because it is hard to explain, because it is happening in faraway places, and because a lot of vested interests don't want to change how they do business. Our goal is to simplify without over-simplifying, to put a face on climate change, and to get past the rhetoric and give ordinary people the tools to make their own decisions.

 

What's New

Anyone visiting the Planet Restart site will have noticed a lack of recent postings. I have been working on a novel, which I have finished. There are several other writing projects I am anxious to undertake. I found that maintaining two separate blogs—Planet Restart and Every Man A Giant—was impossible to do,so I have consolidated them into a single new blog, where I will continue to post on topics related to global warming, as well as anything else that strikes my fancy.

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In the meantime, check out my recently released e-book, Fifty Years of Global Warming, a collection of 65 essays from Planet Restart that reflect my personal journey to understand the three modern-day horsemen of the apocalypse who stalk mankind: climate change, peak oil, and population growth.

 

Let's Go Surfing . . .

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Earth's Emerging Hot Spots: "We've been recording global surface temperatures since 1880, the beginning of what meteorologists call the modern record. In that time, worldwide temperatures have been on the rise. Now, NASA scientists are reporting that the global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest that we've ever recorded. So what's the big deal? In the last 132 years, nine of the ten warmest on record have occurred in the last eleven years." Source: io9.com

 

Something To Think About

"... man-made changes to the Earth now rival some of the great forces of nature that have changed the planet’s environment and caused mass extinctions in the 4.56 billion years since the planet was created. In other words, mankind has become a sort of in-house asteroid that has struck the planet from within and set it on a new and irrevocable course in geological time. It has upset the stability of the Holocene and launched us into a more insecure future that threatens the life-support systems that have so successfully nurtured our species." Source: William Marsden | Montreal Gazette

 

Show and Tell . . .

 

Worth Repeating

"The Republican Party for decades has styled itself as the party of national defense and military strength. Yet debunking the international scientific consensus on climate change has become a veritable article of faith among Republican candidates and officeholders. That position puts the GOP squarely at odds with the military establishment, which has unequivocally accepted the scientific conclusions of the 97 percent of the world's climatologists who actually conduct research on climate and publish in journals reviewed by their peers." Source: Tim Rinne | Lincoln Journal Star