Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• Scientists Warned the President About Global Warming 50 Years Ago Today | Dana...

  

  On 5 November 1965 climate scientists summarized the risks associated with rising carbon pollution in a report for US president Lyndon Baines Johnson 50 years... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• House Republicans’ Most Recent Witch Hunt Targets NOAA

  

  We live in dark times. Dark times of rampant, media-supported climate change doubt and denial mongering. Dark times when global temperatures are hitting new... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Talk About Denialism

  

  GarryRogers:Perhaps people born since the 70’s have been so brainwashed that they are unaware of, or are critical of, the need to fight back against vast... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Saudi Arabia is out of Water So It Grows Hay in Arizona

  

  Outside of Phoenix, in the scorching Arizona desert, sits a farm that Saudi Arabia’s largest dairy uses to make hay for cows back home. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Solution to Criminal Overfishing Comes Closer

  

  The odds that American consumers will be able to go into a store and buy fish that’s safe and legally caught have begun to improve, perhaps dramatically, over... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Population Resources

  

  Internet Links to Population News and Information Most of the thinking about population is too homocentric. It overlooks natural ecosystems, plants, and animals. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• October of 2015 May Be the Hottest Month – A Record That May Stand For But a...

  

  One thousand six hundred and eighteen (1618) — that’s how many months we have in all of the global temperature record starting in 1880. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Why Fuel Reductions and Thinning Are Poor Forest Strategy

  

  One of the assumptions behind federal legislation like the Resilient Federal Forest Act is that more thinning of our forests will halt or significantly reduce... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Climate Fact No One Wants to Admit: 2 °C Warming is Inevitable

  

  The figures in a new UN report show that limiting global warming to 2 °C is now nigh on impossible (read more at www.newscientist. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• USDA Whistleblower Claims Censorship of Pesticide Research

  

  “A senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint on Wednesday accusing the federal agency of suppressing research... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Top French Weatherman ‘sacked’ for Book Praising Climate Change

  

  A popular weatherman announced Saturday evening he been sacked by leading French news channel France Télévisions for publishing a book which accused top... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Spread of Drylands Will Hit Poorer Nations Hardest

  

  Global warming, increasing aridity and rapidly expanding human population will lead to drylands covering half of the Earth’s land surface by the end of this... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Cuba’s Actions to Protect Biodiversity Praised

  

  HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 29 (acn) Lyes Ferroukhi, Regional Technical Advisor for Biodiversity and Ecosystems of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), praised... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Hard Deadline: We Must Stop Building New Carbon Infrastructure by 2018

  

  “In only three years there will be enough fossil fuel-burning stuff—cars, homes, factories, power plants, etc.—built to blow through our carbon budget for a 2... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Ozone Depletion

  

  GarryRogers:NASA’s annual record doesn’t show much improvement (http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov). Originally posted on Earth Report: New Refrigerant Gases Also... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Amazon Wildfire Engulfs Brazilian Forest and Threatens Tribes – Video

  

  A huge fire that has been burning for two months engulfs a swath of Brazilian forest, threatening the existence of remote indigenous tribes. Sourced through... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Namibia’s Hidden Poaching Crisis

  

  Originally posted on strange behaviors: From the ivory black market in Okahandja, Namibia (Photo: Shi Yi) This story is dismaying for me, as I have often writte... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• This Could Be the Worst Climate Crisis in the World Right Now

  

  On Monday afternoon, Indonesian President Joko Widodo cut short a visit to the United States and headed home to oversee efforts to extinguish a rash of epic... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Last Act for Africa’s Vanishing Lions

  

  GarryRogers:Good suggestions for taking action. Originally posted on strange behaviors: Walking dead. (Photo in Zambia: Patrick Bentley/www.patrickbentley. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• “A Crime Against Humanity” — Hothouse Wildfire Smoke Sickens 500,000 As...

  

  GarryRogers:GR: Recovery of these tropical forests through the natural processes of ecological succession may not occur because of the intensity and large size... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT