Polar bears may be in more trouble than we had thought. The environmental NGOs learned long ago that certain large animals were charismatic and could become valuable poster children for their conservation efforts. That’s why the giant panda features… Read More »Why 12th December 2015 might have been the High Point in our Struggle to contain Climate Change.
Addendum: As I was about to post this to my blog, the first authoritative press release concerning the 2017 bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef was hitting the media. I don’t discuss it here, but the fact that the GBR… Read More »Lament the Decline of Ethical Standards; It Hampers Our Ability to Deal with Environmental Issues
Reclining on a tropical beach, it is easy to think of the ocean as deliciously wet, salty and refreshing, while the sky is simply a blue transparency, a near nothingness that sometimes brings a cooling breeze. In fact, both are… Read More »Sea and Sky – Complexity abounds, which is why climate change is so difficult to understand and project into the future.