Climate Change

The tokamak strikes back. — A recent study found that the ST40, a spherical tokamak fusion reactor, reached the astronomical temperatures of 100 million degrees Kelvin. That is 6.7 times hotter than the core of the Sun! This insane temperature is enough to create fusion ignition, which can potentially create commercially viable fusion power! But…

With our children at our feet and the world that supports us will be gone (sung to the tune of Won’t Get Fooled Again) — South East Asia is in its, “13th week of the most brutal never-ending heat wave the world has ever seen.” (there is no link as twitter has done something with the page) You won’t have to travel to South East Asia, though, to experience brutal heat…

Welcome to the 16th edition of Collapse Catch-Up, a weekly newsletter that catches you up on the latest signs that we are living through the collapse of global industrial civilization. You can find the 15th edition here. This week I have news about unprecedented wildfires, cities running out of water…

It turns out carbon emissions are far more damaging than we thought. — You might think that climate change is causing temperatures to rise. However, a recent study has shown this isn’t the case. You see, the increased levels of carbon dioxide generated by humanity's rampant use of fossil fuels, is causing the upper layers of our atmosphere to rapidly cool. This might…

We all experience transitions–moving out of our childhood home, losing a loved one, navigating an illness, or ending a relationship. We go through the motions and if we are lucky we may have a little presence for how we want to show up in that transition. It changes us, at…

What do we leave as our monuments? Garbage and landfills — I worked at McDonald’s when I was 14 years old and at the end of shift I’d have to throw away any leftovers. There was a laminated sheet under the register that listed the accounting value of the stuff we sold, and it was fraction of what we sold it…

Understanding the Global Climate System isn’t as hard as you think. We have most of the pieces to “SEE” it clearly now. — The Earth’s Climate System — A Short Users Guide. Our planet is tilted in its orientation with the Sun. This drives EVERYTHING about our Climate. It’s what gives us Seasons.

Last week the wife and I went to a Sheep Show and Sale in Reno, NV. Driving up there, burning diesel, debating in my head how the EV future in it’s failure to meet long distance hauls, and what we can do better and how. Struggling with the drought the…

The 1965 Report on CO2 and Climate Change — “Through his worldwide industrial civilization, Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment. Within a few generations he is burning the fossil fuels that slowly accumulated in the earth over the past 500 million years … The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be…