Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2776 )

• Asking for More: Additional Carbon Cuts Please

  

  GR: Moving from theoretical to practical, an article in Nature reports on the use of observed global warming to choose the best models for predicting future... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Time is Growing Short

  

  GR: An article from last June should be on everyone’s mind now. Here’s my discussion followed by a link to the article. A group of scientists analyzed the... Read more

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

• 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Warn Humanity of Environmental Catastrophe

  

  GR: This is the 25-year update of the warning scientists gave in 1992. “More than 15,000 scientists have signed a chilling article titled “World Scientists’... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Global CO2 Emissions Are Rising in 2017 After Three-Year ‘Plateau’

  

  GR: Cinch up your seat belts; CO2 emissions are still rising. “Over the past three years, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have remained relatively flat. Read more

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

• Should We Look on the Bright Side of the 6th Mass Extinction? – Animalista...

  

  GR: Here’s the case for optimism for the great loss of species and a literate response that the arguments supporting the case are rubbish. And rubbish they are. Read more

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

• Republicans Seek to Use Tax Bill to Suppress Climate and Clean Air Saving...

  

  GR: By eliminating the all-electric vehicle tax credit, the Republicans are trying to slow the switch from gas burning to clean powered vehicles. They don’t wan... Read more

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

• Time of Great Dying: Population Bomb Bursts, the End of Old-Growth Forests, and...

  

  GR: Like an empty deck chair bumping in the wind, I’ve repeated this warning over and over. I’ve tried to find new ways to phrase it, new associations to tie... Read more

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

• National Forests, Endangered Species Under Attack as House Republicans Pass...

  

  GR: The bill is just as bad as we feared it would be. Click here for the earlier discussions. Using catastrophic fires as cover, House Republicans passed a... Read more

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

• When the Global Wildlife Decline Reaches Zero

  

  Questions About Climate Change and Wildlife Decline GR: The research and the various projections of how the Earth is warming and how the warming will manifest i... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Global Tree Cover Loss Rose 51 Percent in 2016

  

  Borneo forest loss 1950-2020 (indonesiaexpat.biz). GR: We hear about forest replanting projects, better management, and better enforcement of forest... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• New Fire Danger Threatens to Worsen Most Disastrous Wildfire Season in Californi...

  

  GR: This year’s fire season isn’t over. Southern California will have hot wind and high temperatures for the next few days. The article below from the Weather... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• How Marine Algae Could Help Feed the World

  

  GR: If we stay on our present path bringing 200,000 more mouths to feed into the world every morning, bugs and algae will be well on their way to replacing... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Tar Sands Pipeline That Could Rival Keystone XL Quietly Gets Trump Approval

  

  GR: It’s really hard to find a fresh or useful comment on something like this. Just sad. Enbridge’s Line 67 carries tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada,... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ After Dramatic Plunge in Insect Numbers

  

  GR: Over the past four years that I’ve reported bad news, this is the worst. We’ve known that insects were declining, but no one would have guessed the decline... Read more

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

• Wildfires Rage Through Portugal and Spain, Kill at Least 39

  

  GR: Fire, storm, flood, and drought disasters are growing. Perhaps they will soon become so commonplace as to go unreported. Of course, when we see something... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Take Action: Tell Your Senators to Vote Against EPA Nominee with Chemical...

  

  Crony-Capitalism. Is this us? (Click image to read the fine print.) GR: The Trump/Republican choices for government office are people who 1) lack experience or... Read more

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

• Firestorm: 1,500 Structures Destroyed as Massive Wildfires Blaze Through Norther...

  

  GR: Now begins the age of extremes that everyone can see. No longer just statistical trends in numbers and sizes of floods and fires, global warming-spurred... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• OMB Director Mulvaney Responds to Western Caucus Calls for Forestry Action |...

  

  GR: There is a misconception in Congress that managing hazardous fuels means that we should remove restrictions that prevent timber companies from... Read more

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

• How Bird-Friendly Are Your Windows?

  

  GR: Birds and other wildlife are declining because of these human activities: habitat destruction (building and farming) resource harvests (logging, livestock... Read more

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

• Trump Administration Will Propose Repealing Obama’s Key Effort to Combat...

  

  GR: Why does the fossil fuel industry keep this up? The influence on our lawmakers and regulators is a crime against all people everywhere. Read more

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