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2018-09-06T18:47:00.001+02:00

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Nej, tusindvis af nye videnskabelige studier har IKKE "trukket i klima-skeptisk retning"

2017-11-28T18:18:00.001+01:00

[Dette indlæg er også bragt på ScienceBlog.dk - giv os et klik!] --- Civilingeniør Frank Lansner viderebringer i sin blog på Børsen en variant af en falsk nyhed, der for tiden er trendy i klimabenægtende kredse: at en masse ny forskning skulle modbevise menneskeskabte klimaforandringer. Han skriver blandt andet: "Det vælter ind med resultater der trækker I klima-skeptisk retning. [...] De 2

German professor Harald Welzer: "we will see a renaissance of violent conflict in the 21st century, and many of these conflicts will spring from climate change"

2017-11-19T22:06:00.001+01:00

"You always have a higher potential for violent conflict when the survival conditions of groups of people are threatened. [...] if all these scientists and climate researchers are right, or even close to right, what does it mean for greater potential for violent conflict? I think the answers are not encouraging." "My belief is that we will see a renaissance of violent conflict in the 21st

Afgørelsens time (Time to choose)

2017-04-23T00:01:00.002+02:00

"Hvis man ser på lande, der er afhængige af naturlige ressourcer, ser man en sløv udvikling, stor ulighed, autoritære regimer og udbredt korruption." - Peter Lewis, John Hopkins University "I hele verden, i Saudi-Arabien, Iran, Irak, Rusland og Afrika, fører olie til korruption, diktatur og krig. Verden ville være et bedre sted, hvis vi ikke havde brug for olie. Og det har vi snart ikke

Trump åbner for import af mineraler fra krigszoner

2017-02-26T15:35:00.000+01:00

Præsident Donald Trump planlægger at suspendere en lov, der pålægger amerikanske virksomheder åbenhed om oprindelsen af de råstoffer, de bruger. Dermed vil blandt andet såkaldte blod-diamanter atter frit kunne importeres fra for eksempel Congo. Jobs eller børnearbejde? Afsnit 1502 i "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection"-loven, der blev indført under Barack Obama i 2010,

Invitation to fight the ecowar

2017-02-20T22:47:00.003+01:00

I need YOU to write Ecowar. I will assist. You get final say. Together we will produce a little something cool. Read the full call for papers for further inspiration and instructions. (Languages accepted: preferably English, Danish, perhaps German.) var

Read "THE OUTLAW OCEAN" series on New York Times

2016-01-16T18:49:00.002+01:00

Check out New York Times' six part series about the medevial conditions on the high seas. In this series on lawlessness on the high seas, Ian Urbina reveals that crime and violence in international waters often goes unpunished. In particular, ‘SEA SLAVES’: THE HUMAN MISERY THAT FEEDS PETS AND LIVESTOCK reports of slavery-like working conditions onboard. “Life at sea is cheap,” said Phil

2014 bookmarks - the year in war over natural resources

2014-12-24T00:37:00.001+01:00

From the depths of my bookmarks (that were all automatically tweeted) on conflict and natural resources, here is a quick review of the way in which Earth was plundered for natural resources in the past year. Year 2014, the 100th anniversary of the first war to run on oil. In short, 2014 was just more of the same. Like... Geneva Conventions once again violated in Palestine as the conflict

Watch this one hour preview of Years of Living Dangerously

2014-04-07T17:34:00.000+02:00

From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, this groundbreaking documentary event series provides first-hand reports on those affected by, and seeking solutions to, climate change. This episode full of footage from Syria, Texas and Indonesia. Watch it. var skin = {}; skin['HEIGHT'] = '21'; skin['BUTTON_STYLE'] = 'compact'; skin['BUTTON_TEXT'] = 'Recommend it!'; skin['BUTTON_ICON'] = 'default'; google.friendconnect.container.setParentUrl('/' /* location of

George W. Bush is painting too many puppies

2013-03-09T11:37:00.000+01:00

My brain was going into my feet from reading Salon.com (not The Onion) / George W. Bush’s art teacher says he’ll “go down in the history books as a great artist”. He has painted "more than 50" puppies!? However, after posting this breaking news to Facebook, a friend of mine pointed out the cosmos in this chaos. It's been 23 years in the making... Too many puppies are

Review: EARTH WARS - The Battle for Global Resources

2013-01-08T19:09:00.001+01:00

"If the Earth wars were a sporting contest, here's how the half-time score might stand at the beginning of 2012..." Georff Hiscock concludes his near 300 pages factual account of who owns the world with a surprisingly relaxed "scoreboard": 1st: USA 10 points 2nd: China 8p 3rd - 4th: Europe, Japan 6p 5th - 6th: Russia, India 5p 7th: Brazil 4p 8th - 10th: Mexico, Canada, Australia 3p 11th -

Call for moratorium on extraction in contested territories

2013-01-07T22:52:00.002+01:00

As can be seen in this recent infographic by Information is Beautiful and The Guardian, we need to leave about 86 percent of known fossil fuel resources in the ground to stay within our carbon budget and hopefully avoid raising global temperatures by more than two degrees Celsius. Still exploration and extraction continues unabated. However, some resources are in undergrounds below contested

Come to Greenland

2012-11-02T20:54:00.001+01:00

Island for sale. 2,166,000 km² (mostly still ice). 56,744 inhabitants (many working at minimum wage, animosity towards Greenpeace is legendary). Watch some of the world's last ice melt to reveal a wealth of riches below. Copper, zinc, iron, gold. Make your investment before it's taken. Look at all the deposits that have already been found. Off shore the most daring oil companies are already

Government soldiers and rebel insurgents are slaughtering hundreds of elephants

2012-09-10T08:44:00.002+02:00

Protecting endangered wildlife is not just about donating to WWF, funding parks, keeping endangered lizards as "pets" and abstaining from buying ivory. It's an arms race and it's fighting a war. In 2012 the poachers have gone on blitz krieg killing more elephants than ever before, operating across borders from helicopters and shooting at park rangers who are forced to retreat. And it's not just

Amazonian tribal village razed, 80 people massacred by miners

2012-09-01T11:04:00.002+02:00

Several places in the Amazon illegal miners and loggers clash with indigenous tribes in conflict over access to and use of land. "Use of" as in clear cutting, strip mining or chemically polluting. This particular report is a tad more gruesome than most of them. Only three hunters who were away when the village was bombed and sniped from a helicopter survived. "This is another appalling tragedy