by Nafeez Ahmed Oct 24 2019
The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.
The report, titled Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army, was launched by the U.S. Army War College in partnership with NASA in May at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. The report was commissioned by Gen. Milley during his previous role as the Army’s Chief of Staff. It was made publicly available in August via the Center for Climate and Security, but didn't get a lot of attention at the time.
Bizarrely for a report styling itself around the promotion of environmental stewardship in the Army, the report identifies the Arctic as a critical strategic location for future US military involvement: to maximize fossil fuel consumption.
In The Fourth Phase of Water, Gerald Pollack offers an elegant new theory of water chemistry that has profound implications not only for chemistry and biology,
The Forum’s aim is to create a permanent structure for international political and cultural debate... annual assemblies and regional sessions to examine the challenges of the new century. The WPF is not, however, just an annual meeting of eminent and auth
Artikel om transaktionskostnader och allmänna (?) nyttigheter av Dan Josefsson och Johan Berggren, publicerad i Ordfront magasin, oktober 2008. Ronald Coases fråga: varför finns det företag? Exemplet elmarknaden. Påstående: vattnet i Sverige är "gratis"
Paths To Knowledge (dot NET): "The 16 January 2010 issue of New Scientist is really interesting as New Scientist admit that they published “non peer reviewed speculations” as if it was science (rather than soothsaying) and that those speculations were tre
David Dickson editorial 6 May 2009 : "Nowhere is the promise of nanotechnology stronger than in water treatment. Nanofiltration techniques and nanoparticles can reduce or eliminate contaminants in water and could help deliver a key Millennium Development
The Times, April 17, 2007 "Russia has revived the idea as a solution to the problems of energy supply in its sparsely populated regions. The floating unit generates a small fraction of the power of a standard Russian land-based nuclear power plant. Russia
Samir Amin in Pambazuka's 2011-09-07, Issue 546: "Nobody knows who the members of the National Transition Council in Benghazi really are. There may be democrats among them, but there are certainly Islamists, some among the worst of the breed, as well as r
Case studies analyse the transition from private to public water provision in Paris, Dar es Salaam, Buenos Aires and Hamilton, and look at a national-level experiment in Malaysia.
27 April 2013 : "Groundwater is pouring into the plant's ravaged reactor buildings at a rate of almost 75 gallons a minute. It becomes highly contaminated there, before being pumped out to keep from swamping a critical cooling system. A small army of workers has struggled to contain the continuous flow of radioactive wastewater, relying on hulking gray and silver storage tanks sprawling over 42 acres of parking lots and lawns. The tanks hold the equivalent of 112 Olympic-size pools."