Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• NASA Data Shows the Rate of Global Warming is Accelerating — 2016 is Third...

  

  GR: Climate scientists have warned us that warming will accelerate as positive feedbacks grow stronger. We may have just witnessed the first evidence that they... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• We Are Destroying Rainforests So Quickly They May Be Gone in 100 Years

  

  GR: Deforestation is a major cause of climate change and of biodiversity decline, extinction of amphibians, arthropods, birds, mammals, and reptiles. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Threat to Species from Climate Change Should Provoke Shame in Our Hearts

  

  GR: More about Australian wildlife decline due to climate change. Climate change from unprecedented carbon emissions not only threaten the habitats of our uniqu... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Warm Air Invades Arctic Again, Slowing Sea Ice Growth

  

  GR: Southerly movement of cold air balances northerly movement of warm air. The added warmth is melting polar sea ice, increasing humidity, trapping more heat,... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Koalas Are Fading Away

  

  GR: I would add that not only are habitat losses causing greater short-term harm than climate change, so are invasive species. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• We Can Keep Our Open Spaces by Limiting Population

  

  Human Overpopulation GR: Human overpopulation results in burning more fossil fuel for energy, conversion of more natural habitats to farms, more destruction of... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Ring-Tailed Lemur Populations Have Crashed by 95 Percent

  

  GR: Sad times if you care for wildlife. The researchers explain that Ring-Tailed Lemurs declined to this point with no outcry because no one was watching. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Risks of Climate Change, in a Single Graph

  

  Destructive Climate Change Has Begun. What Comes Next? GR: Global average temperature has risen a little more than .8 degrees Celsius since the late 1800’s. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Duterte Orders Better Access To Birth Control In Majority Catholic Philippines...

  

  GR: Cultural, social, and religious practices that formed centuries earlier can become destructive. The Catholic Church needs an update that acknowledges the... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Behind New Zealand’s Wild Plan to Purge All Pests

  

  Invasive Species GR: After 1500 AD, sailing ships and then later on, motor-powered ships began transporting and introducing plant and animal species all over th... Read more

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

• Africa: Mauritania to Benefit From U.S.$21 Million IFAD Grant to Boost Food...

  

  GR: The U.S. should grant an equal amount of money for family planning with the goal to cut population and food requirements. Anyone can see that continuing to... Read more

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

• Bird Species Vanish from UK Due to Climate Change and Habitat Loss

  

  GR: Human population growth, conversion of land to farms and cities, and rising temperatures are driving most species toward extinction. Naturalists are... Read more

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

• Maps Reveal How Global Consumption Hurts Wildlife

  

  Map shows species-threat hot spots linked to consumption in the United States. The scale bars indicate the total of all the fractions of threats to land or... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• “There is No Such Thing as Climate Change.” – A Beautiful Lie #auspol — Jpratt27

  

  A paradise that has been degraded and destroyed. Man may be unwittingly changing the world’s climate through the waste products of its civilization. Read more

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

• ‘The H. Sapiens Problem’ Print Edition is Available

  

  “The H. sapiens Problem” by Garry Rogers The print edition of ‘The H. sapiens Problem’ is available. If you haven’t read “Corr Syl the Warrior,” you might find... Read more

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

• The Noisy Political Attack on New National Monuments. We Have Heard the Same...

  

  GR: This insightful blog post provides historical perspective for public lands protection. Cattle in the Sonoran Desert. Heavily trampled soil without soil... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 2017 in Climate and Nuclear News

  It remains important to keep our eyes on the ball. Long ago, we were sold on centralized power and the economies of scale. Corporate ownership weakened the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Monumental Legacy | Obama’s National Monuments

  

  GR: National Monuments provide imperfect protection to water and wildlife, but they are better than leaving lands entirely under standard Bureau of Land Misuse... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Traffic Noise Reduces Birds’ Response to Alarm Calls — ScienceDaily

  

  GR: The sounds of human voices and machines interfere with wildlife feeding, mating, and response to danger. Just another of the many ways that we are destroyin... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Dead-earth-movie

  

  Block Trump. Declare World War on Global Warming and Other Human Impacts on Nature Our Problem Earth could join Mars as a dry, lifeless derelict. Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT