Facing Future Blog

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July 23, 2023

Antarctica’s Threatening Winter

by Robert Hunziker

In the dead of winter, the Antarctic Peninsula, an 800-mile extension of the Antarctic continent, temperatures hit 32°F. (Source: It’s Even Hot in Antarctica, Where it’s Winter, Vox, July 13, 2023) Global warming has been on a hot streak, accelerating . . .

July 14, 2023

Climate Poison Pills in Congress

by Robert Hunziker

Republican lawmakers in the US Congress are unabashedly pro-global warming: “Bring it on! We’ve got air conditioners in our cars, offices, and homes… no sweat!” Not one Republican in Congress voted for the nation’s most inclusive climate bill of all . . .

July 8, 2023

The Greenland Threat Escalates

by Robert Hunziker

Will the world’s major coastal cities, such as NYC, survive escalating global heat conditions in Greenland? And what if both Greenland and Antarctica follow the recent very disturbing pattern of the world’s oceans? For the first time that scientists can . . .

July 2, 2023

The Ocean Red Zone

by Robert Hunziker

Oceans of the world are in a dangerous red zone that exceeds safe limits for marine and terrestrial life because of excessive heat. Several statements by climate scientists show heightened concerns about how this plays out, as 2023 could be . . .

June 19, 2023

Planetary Heat is Happening Fast, and Faster

by Robert Hunziker

The evidence is starting to build that all bets are off on predictions that humanity has a decade, or more, of clear sailing before global warming turns vicious enough to run roughshod over climate change deniers and the mean-spirited anti-climate-change . . .

June 10, 2023

France’s Global Warming Predicament

by Robert Hunziker

When one of the world’s most developed culturally elite countries, France, tosses in the towel on the IPCC 2°C barrier, it sends a loud and clear message that the global warming fight is losing the battle. Seriously, France expects 4°C. . . .

May 30, 2023

Supremes Declare War on Wetlands

by Robert Hunziker

The Supreme Court is effectively axing a major component of the Clean Water Act, rolling back 50 years of wetland protection in a declaration of war against nature by changing a word in the text of the Clean Water Act. . . .

May 28, 2023

Nuclear Turns Fashionable

by Robert Hunziker

Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are the new nuclear craze, especially with the U.S. Congress, as America’s representatives see SMRs as a big answer to energy needs and reduction of greenhouse gases, advertised as a green deal for clean energy that . . .

May 26, 2023

The Atmosphere is Cooling Dangerously Fast

by Robert Hunziker

The upper atmosphere is cooling too fast for comfort. Global warming is only one half of the impact of excessive CO2 emissions generated by cars, planes, trains, and industry. The other impact is rapid cooling of the upper atmosphere which . . .

May 19, 2023

Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster

by Robert Hunziker

It’s official, according to a speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the United States is jumping off the neoliberal globalization bandwagon (a root cause of domestic extremism) and it couldn’t come soon enough as institutions of government are sucking . . .

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