Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• Trump’s Climate-hoax Demands Roil U.S. Allies

  

  GR: The U. S. is not a leader in global efforts to stop climate change. Under Bannon and the conservative Congress, the U. S. has become the leader in retreat... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Disastrous 2016 Shows British Butterflies Are ‘failing to Cope’ with Climate...

  

  GR: Butterflies and other pollinators seem to be in steep decline around my home in Dewey-Humboldt, Yavapai County, Arizona. Monarch, Morning Cloak, and... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Earth’s Melting Permafrost Threatens to Unleash a Dangerous Climate Feedback Loop

  

  GR: Here are some additional comments on the expanded permafrost-melt findings I reported this morning. That study did not project the effect on global... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Global Warming Could Thaw Far More Permafrost Than Expected

  

  GR: Here’s your daily dose of bad news for climate change. This study doesn’t consider the effect of the increased permafrost thaw. However, we know that... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 2017’s Warming Climate Produces Unprecedented Floods Across the Globe

  

  GR: More CO2, more warming, more evaporation, and more extreme storms. “A robust result, consistent across climate model projections, is that higher... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Glaciers Melting in Glacier National Park

  

  GR: Scientists have used repeated photographs to study glaciers for more than a century (Rogers et al. 1984). Arthur Johnson published the earliest... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• An Armada of Icebergs Has Just Invaded The North Atlantic

  

  GR: Swarms of icebergs are another symptom of global warming that we meet as we cross the threshold of accelerated change. RobertScribbler reports on the comple... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging,...

  

  GR: I missed this story earlier, but it is worth repeating. Batteries that cost less, store more energy, charge faster, last longer, and safer when exhausted.... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Have You Checked Out Our FOIA Repository? – ClimateWest

  

  GR: Being a republic certainly has benefits. Jeremy Nichols provides links for WildEarth Guardians’ Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and results. “We... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• New Study: What’s Scarier Than the Permian Extinction? Burn All the Fossil...

  

  GR: Now, here’s a truly scary story. Happily, it’s question, “what happens if we burn all the fossil fuels,” is an unlikely issue because of the progress... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Survey of the “War on Wildlife”: How Conflict Affects Conservation

  

  GR: Conflicts should perhaps be included in the list of the top nature destroying human activities. This gives us construction and farming, global warming,... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 50th UN Session of Commission on Population & Development

  

  GR: The growing human population is the source of most of the environmental destruction that is threatening the biological diversity and stability of the Earth. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Experts Respond to Trump’s Climate Blitzkrieg | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

  

  GR: Of course, Trump and his band of nature trolls will ignore the experts. Nevertheless, the thoughts of each one are worth reporting. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Brazil Halves Environment Budget Amid Rising Amazon Deforestation | Climate...

  

  GR: Of today’s 12 lead stories in my climate newsletter, The Atmosphere News, 3 stories were either optimistic or neutral and 9 were pessimistic or bad. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• For Colombia, The Rain Bombs of Climate Change Fell in the Dark of Night

  

  GR: More from Robert Scribbler on the intense storms of global warming. As the lower atmosphere becomes warmer, evaporation rates will increase, resulting in... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Fires of History Yet Rage — Climate Change and the Authoritarian Assault on...

  

  GR: Robert Scribbler writes about history and the forces prompting a downward spiral of modern civilization. He is writing about the greed and politics that I... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change Pushing Floods, Cyclones to New Extremes, with Worse to Come

  

  GR: We know that global warming increases the chances for severe storms. This article provides explanations and some details on what to expect. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Politics, Nature-Conservation, and Pipelines

  

  Abandoning Fossil Fuels for Nature Conservation GR: Fossil fuels are harmful during their extraction, delivery, refinement, and use. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• March Mammal Madness 2017: School Science Classes Watch Their Brackets

  

  GR: Love it! I would choose a Wolverine for its strength, stamina, ferocity, and intelligence. Sorry losers. “It’s a little after 8 a.m. at Wakefield High Schoo... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Second Year of Widespread Bleaching Underway on the Great Barrier Reef

  GR: Another excellent report from NOAA’s climate group. The news is bad. Here’s one effort to do more than just report on our destruction of Earth ecosystems. W... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT