Author: onno
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Two Years On
It’s been a little over two years since I finished For a Future. Oh well. Who could have expected that Trump would gain ascendency and snuff out whatever hope there was for the Paris Accords? One has to remember that these voluntary accords replaced binding accords that were far less than what the Kyoto protocols—also…
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COP21 Wrap-Up
The Climate agreement provided all the corporate news outlets with a positive story for the Holiday Season. No one expects to change their lifestyle until we are absolutely forced to. That will be too late. The COP21 agreement, with voluntary cuts, is a death knell for the human race and so many other species on…
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The Place to B
James Hansen, the climate change scientist who lead the wake-up call in 1981, released a paper a few months ago explaining that the end of the world as we know it is not far off if we hit 2°C increase in global temperature. The situation is much worse than we think! In so many words,…