Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• Fishermen Battling for Brexit | Environment | The Guardian

  

  GR: As the human population grows and fish populations shrink, it is critical that we drastically cut our fishing activities. These people are only concerned... Read more

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

• Record Rain Events a Global Pattern | Climate Denial Crock of the Week

  

  GR: As predicted by scientists more than 30 years ago, the storms are growing stronger. As the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans warm, the storms will continue to... Read more

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

• Dishonest Donald Denies The Ongoing California Drought as Lake Mead Hits New...

  We now find that under the current amount of warming, the probability of a severe drought year has approximately doubled. — Park Williams, assistant research... Read more

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

• Philippines New President Duterte Supports Population Control

  

  Philippines Population Control Needed GR: Joe Bish of the Population Media Center points out that “the advocacy group Philippine Legislators Committee on... Read more

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

• Homeowners Kept in Dark About Climate Change Risk to Houses, Says Report |...

  

  GR: Efforts by governments to support development by hiding important information from consumers is rampant in the U. S. I am not surprised that this is true... Read more

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

• How Fracking Can Contribute to Climate Change | Environment | The Guardian

  

  One of the justifications for fracking is the use of natural gas as a bridging fuel between coal and a low-carbon future. However natural gas is mostly... Read more

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

• Pharmaceutical Pollution Widespread in Southeast U.S. Streams | Summit County...

  

  GR: We have known about this for at least 20 years, but nothing has been done because of the high cost of filtering urban waste water. Read more

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

• Fire in the Sky — More Than 330,000 Lightning Strikes Hit Europe in Just Eight...

  

  “Whatever happened to normal weather? Earth has always experienced epic storms, debilitating drought, and biblical floods. But lately it seems the treadmill of... Read more

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

• Once-Wild West Disappearing Under Development | Californians For Population...

  

  Discussion of the principal cause of the loss of natural areas to development in the U.S. … “The natural landscape of the American West is gradually disappearin... Read more

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

• Disappearing West

  

  Construction Eliminating Plants and Animals Every 2.5 minutes, the American West loses a football field worth of natural area to human development. Read more

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

• One-fifth of World’s Plants at Risk of Extinction: Study | The Japan Times

  

  The survey by Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London, said 21 percent of species are under threat. The report, the first of its kind, is intended to... Read more

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

• Peace Park Proposed for Karen State, Myanmar- DVB Multimedia Group

  

  Proposed Nature Sanctuary/Park in Myanmar KESAN hopes the introduction of the Salween Peace Park will also stop logging concessions in the area, which cause... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Number One Thing We Can Do to Protect Earth’s Oceans | Ensia

  

  Protecting Earth’s Oceans By Liza Gross When New England fishers complained of working harder and harder to catch fewer and fewer fish, Spencer Baird assembled ... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat by Nicola Jones:...

  

  Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• This Is The Side Of The Great Barrier Reef The Government Doesn’t Want You To Se...

  

  Australia Coral Reef Deception: BuzzFeed News: Photos and text from: Rob Stott, BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia Take a quick look at the Tourism Australia... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Electric Aircraft Sun Flyer – Business Insider

  

  A small Denver, Colorado, manufacturer has rolled out the first prototype of a new all-electric aircraft, suggesting that the same revolution currently... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Meteorologists Are Seeing Global Warming’s Effect on the Weather | Paul Douglas ...

  

  GR: Read my last post to see how forecasters failed to predict the extreme rainfall and flooding that hit Texas today. “Whatever happened to normal weather? Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Multi-Day ‘Siege of Storms’ Follows Exxon Shareholder Meeting | Robertscribbler

  

  A multi-day siege of severe thunderstorms morphed into a major flash flood event in parts of Texas, Kansas, and other states late Thursday into Friday, and... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Agreement Turns I-35 into Pollinator Haven | Finance & Commerce

  

  GR: It is definitely time to get serious about pollinator protection. Unfortunately, this agreement is not binding and it does not mention mowing or... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Ethics and Nuclear Power – Theme for May 2016 « Nuclear-news

  I have been managing this site for 9 years. With viewers, the most popular posts and pages have been on ETHICS. Isn’t that extraordinary, in this world where... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT