Category Archives: peak and decline

smokeocalypse

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Mark Rossiter

Today, and not for the first time this week according to the AirVisual app on my phone, Chiang Mai has the most polluted air of any city in the world. By a mile. Here is the view from our window: … Continue reading →

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the face I deserve

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Mark Rossiter

“By the time a man is 50 he has the face he deserves.” If you google that, it comes up that George Orwell wrote it; but nowhere does it say exactly where, chapter and verse. So was it him? Almost … Continue reading →

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Storms of My Grandchildren

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Mark Rossiter

This first book by James Hansen, the dean of American climate scientists and the man who introduced a mass audience to the concept of “global warming” in a Congressional hearing nearly a quarter of a century ago, was published right … Continue reading →

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more bad news to ignore

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

Stories yesterday in the Guardian and the Independent about how carbon emissions are rising quickly again after the Great Recession, and how they will flip us into feedback loops in the Arctic within 20 years. These stories hunt in packs, … Continue reading →

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the lights are going out (but not here, yet)

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

A story by Tom Whipple in Energy Bulletin yesterday, about how South Asia is running out of power (I noticed this in Nepal when I was there in January, in Bhaktapur – the power was off for at least half … Continue reading →

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