Facing Future Blog

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August 18, 2024

The Future of Our World by Noam Chomsky

by Robert Hunziker

Noam Chomsky (95) famous dissident and father of modern linguistics, considered one of the world’s leading intellectuals, is recovering from a stroke he suffered at age 94 and now living with his wife in Brazil. According to a report in . . .

August 9, 2024

Midwinter Antarctica

by Robert Hunziker

Temperatures for the entire month of July in Antarctica were 50°F above average, but it also experienced days when temperatures spiked up to 82°F above average. Yes, Antarctica is the world’s deep freeze, and it is the dead of winter. . . .

August 2, 2024

Methane Emissions “Fastest in Decades”

by Robert Hunziker

A new study shows methane (CH4) emissions behaving like a sprinter on speed, setting decadal records. This is bad news. It’s 80-times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat. “Global emissions of methane, a powerful planet-heating gas, are ‘rising rapidly’ . . .

July 28, 2024

China’s Lightening Fast Renewable Triumphs

by Robert Hunziker

A few years ago, China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry shook hands on a pledge to triple renewable energy by 2030. China took the challenge seriously, very seriously, it will meet its end-of-2030 emissions target . . .

July 19, 2024

Fukushima Toxic Dumping

by Robert Hunziker

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is the world’s leading epicenter of toxic radioactive water released into the ocean. Yet, these activities are no longer closely monitored by mainstream media. As it happens, Tokyo Electric Power Company is the electric utility . . .

June 28, 2024

Antarctic Ice Melt – New Sobering Studies

by Robert Hunziker

It was only two years ago that studies of the infamous Thwaites Glacier, aka: the Doomsday Glacier located in West Antarctica, found rapid melting. At the time, scientists said it was “hanging on by its fingernails.” (Source: ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Which . . .

June 21, 2024

At the Edge of Apocalypse

by Robert Hunziker

Biblical flooding, scorching heat, collapsing grid system, animals crumbling, waters rising, crops wilting, economy on the brink, and millions displaced. Welcome to the future of climate change… Pakistan. If one could classify a global warming beta test as a success . . .

June 14, 2024

Chomsky & UN Forewarnings Revisited

by Robert Hunziker

I recently attended a family affair in Upstate NY and was informed that climate change articles, like this one, are too negative, causing close relatives to shutdown and going so far as to ignore articles, too gloomy, too negative, do . . .

June 12, 2024

Where’s the Water?

by Robert Hunziker

“Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting,” a popular adage from the chronicles of the American West that’s starting to come back into vogue. The world’s megacities are on a knife’s edge of water stress. Climate change is clobbering water . . .

May 31, 2024

Goodbye Oil & Gas – Hello Thermal Bricks

by Robert Hunziker

The world of energy struggles with the nearly impossible task of getting off fossil fuels. This requires thinking outside of the box, something revolutionary bustling with energy that bails us out of sluggish fossil fuels that emit too much CO2 . . .

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