The dying planet - new stories 06/03/2015

The new climate denier position is to admit that climate change is happening but we can trade our way out of it, this is patently garbage. Shell itself admits in private discussions with the IEA that 4C is baked in in the short term and 6C long term. This is unsurvivable for most species on this planet including humans. Prepare for a future of admitting the problem but covering up the severity from all of our msm news sources.

---Kevin Hester

The Reason Behind Big Oil’s Change of Heart on Global Warming

Six energy giants want a worldwide price on carbon emissions—but what’s in it for them?

After years of opposing efforts to fight climate change, Europe’s biggest oil and gas corporations have made a stunning about-face.

In a letter addressed to the chief of the United Nations climate agency, Christiana Figueres, the chief executives of Shell, BP, and four other energy giants asked the world’s political leaders to put a price on carbon.

“We need governments across the world to provide us with clear, stable, long-term, ambitious policy frameworks,” the letter reads. “We believe that a price on carbon should be a key element of these frameworks.”

India minister blames climate change for deadly heatwave, weak monsoon

India's earth sciences minister has blamed climate change for a heatwave that has killed 2,500 people and for deficient monsoon rains, after the government said on Tuesday the country was headed for its first drought in six years.

"Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon," Harsh Vardhan said. "It's not just an unusually hot summer, it is climate change," he said.

Glacier loss raises high concern over water supplies

The glaciers of the Everest region of the Himalayan massif – home to the highest peak of all – could lose between 70% and 99% of their volume as a result of global warming.

Asia’s mountain ranges contain the greatest thickness of ice beyond the polar regions. But new research predicts that, by 2100, the world’s highest waters – on which billions of people depend for their water supply – could be at their lowest ebb because of the ice loss.

Many of the continent’s great rivers begin up in the snows, fed by melting ice in high-peak regions such as the Hindu Kush, the Pamir and the Himalayas.

Scorched earth: at the epicentre of the Queensland drought, a family sells the last of their cattle

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The spectre of a fourth dry summer is looming in outback towns such as Longreach. Drastic times mean drastic action for the region’s hard-hit farmers

Downtown Los Angeles Experiences Rare "Reverse Meteorological Spring"

Spring weather in downtown LA and other areas of Southern California flip-flopped this year as temperatures cooled from March to May

El Nino to disrupt rains, cut Africa, East Asia harvests, scientists say

Farmers in Africa and East Asia are expected to suffer crop losses as extreme weather linked to the El Nino phenomenon alters rainfall patterns, scientists told a conference on climate change in Bonn on Wednesday.

The rainy season has been delayed in several African nations, and it is difficult to predict exactly how large the crop losses will be, said Sonja Vermeulen, a University of Copenhagen scientist.

Here Are the Navy’s Plans to Bomb the Arctic – Dahr Jamail

The waters of the Gulf of Alaska are some of the most pristine in the world. That will change next month.

Coffee snobs: This brew may get pricey, thanks to climate change

Unless a solution is found soon, two of the world’s favorite, most popular beans, could become in short supply, due to climate change.

Russia's Siberian Tigers Back From Brink of Extinction Thanks to President

A recent census of Amur (Siberian) tigers inhabiting Russia’s Far East, home to 95 per cent of the global population of Amur tigers, reveals that the big cats have increased in numbers, largely due to a conservation program launched with the support of the Russian government and through the personal efforts of President Vladimir Putin.

Drought scourges Utah farms

Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist

Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change.

Fenner, who is emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, said homo sapiens will not be able to survive the population explosion and “unbridled consumption,” and will become extinct, perhaps within a century, along with many other species. United Nations official figures from last year estimate the human population is 6.8 billion, and is predicted to pass seven billion next year.