Goldilocks

Our just-right planet transforming

The “circumstellar habitable zone” is the band where temperatures on planets orbiting their sun range between 212oF and 32oF. It’s not too hot and not too cold for water to exist. Called “the Goldilocks zone,” it’s just right to support life. Here on earth’s surface, temperatures have been in another Goldilocks zone for humans, but all good things come to an end. 

Assimilating the research is just the beginning. We must also understand the exponential function and get a little help with paleoclimatology and synthesizing the broad range of data. 

 

 

 


xraymike79 - 24 September 2023

Driven mostly by rising global temperatures from the continued burning of fossil fuels, extreme weather events such as typhoons, hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and drought are becoming more frequent,...

Robert Hunziker - 24 September 2023

Earth’s climate system is in a state of emergency. Emergencies are defined by four specific elements; i.e., (1) seriousness (2) unexpected (3) dangerous, and (4) requiring immediate action. Based...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 18 September 2023

For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. I was at my Achchi’s house where everybody’s slowly dying. I remember when her road was a dirt road...

Sam Carana - 18 September 2023

The permafrost of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (an area of about 2 million kilometers squared) is more porous than previously thought. The ocean on top of it and the heat from the mantle below it...

Sam Carana - 11 September 2023

The image below, adapted from Climate Reanalyzer , shows that on September 8, 2023, the North Atlantic sea surface reached a new record high temperature, of 25.4°C, even higher than the record...

Robert Hunziker - 11 September 2023

Japan cannot possibly outlive the atrocity of dumping radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. In fact, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is an example of how nuclear meltdowns negatively...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 05 September 2023

As discussed, we have lost the ‘fight against climate change’ before we started, simply from the way we look at the problem . ‘We’ are not the relevant species and ‘fighting’ is not the right...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 05 September 2023

I write about climate change all the time, but somehow never think about it. It’s like the prospect of my own death. It’s definitely going to happen, but not soon, so fuck it. All the horrors of the...

Andrew Glikson - 04 September 2023

With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth. Technologically supreme, they manifest their dreams and nightmares in the real world...

Guy McPherson - 04 September 2023

From Axios on 7 August 2023 comes a story with this headline: The climate wrecking ball striking food supply . Here’s the lede: “Extreme weather events and our warming planet are primed to strike...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 31 August 2023

The Limits to Growth , published in 1972, ran thoughtful computer models of our future up to 2100. The models were explicitly not predictions, but as a 2009 retrospective said , Its predictions have...

Caitlin Johnstone - 31 August 2023

During a 1987 speech before the United Nations, Ronald Reagan spoke positively about the unifying effect that an alien invasion would have on humankind around the world. “In our obsession with...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 31 August 2023

‘W e’ are often the subject of climate change pieces. ‘We’ need to do this, ‘we’ should do that, what do ‘we’ do? The royal ‘we’ has unfortunately been dethroned long ago. ‘We’ do not exist in any...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 25 August 2023

As Renaee Churches writes on Medium , it’s too late to ‘fight’ climate change ( itself an oxymoron ). Climate change is just one of many exponential problems caused by exponential growth, and you...

Euan Nisbet - 24 August 2023

Since 2006, the amount of heat-trapping methane in Earth’s atmosphere has been rising fast and, unlike the rise in carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane’s recent increase seems to be driven by biological...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 19 August 2023

When you fly into the Maldives you feel like the Mafia. “Nice place, shame if something happened to it.” And you’re the thing that’s happening to it. In the Maldives you can see both climate change...

Guy McPherson - 14 August 2023

Recently, on a Zoom call, I was accused of giving up. This often happens, of course. In this case, I was called a nihilist to my face. I appreciate the honesty, even though it’s misguided. As a...

Binoy Kampmark - 13 August 2023

Water. Data centres. The continuous, pressing need to cool the latter, which houses servers to store and process data, with the former, which is becoming ever more precious in the climate crisis....

teleSUR staff - 08 August 2023

Since June, mormon crickets have invaded several western states, including Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Washington, with Nevada and Idaho hit the hardest. As extreme heat baked the western United...

RT Staff - 08 August 2023

July was the hottest month in recorded history, the European meteorological authority Copernicus reported on Tuesday. This year has been the third-hottest on record thus far, the weather experts...

Andrew Glikson - 07 August 2023

It has been overlooked during Garma festival that, under current policies, global warming would render aboriginal lands in central and northern Australia unliveable and the top-end a nuclear target…...

Guy McPherson - 02 August 2023

The video posted [ below ] in this space a week ago took a different approach than usual. Rather than giving a relatively detailed overview of one aspect of climate change, last week’s video...

Robert Hunziker - 31 July 2023

Nuclear reactors are directly in the line of fire of global warming. In fact, nuclear reactors cannot survive global warming. But that’s only the start of serious issues with the world’s newly found...

Andrew Glikson - 26 July 2023

The fast rise in global warming manifested by current extreme weather events betrays a dangerous underestimation of the Earth’s liveable climate, while governments ignore climate science, claim to...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 26 July 2023

"Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at." The new Saint Louis train station dumps you right under a highway, as if to say, “You...

David Edwards - 25 July 2023

Why are we at Media Lens utterly terrified by climate collapse while other people we know are mildly concerned, blithely indifferent or cockily contrarian? The simple answer is that we are doing...

Richard Reese - 21 July 2023

Dan Flores is a historian who has been studying the stormy relationship between humans and the family of life for many years. He calls this subject Big History. Wild New World is a fascinating and...

Guy McPherson - 18 July 2023

I’ve been questioned lately about wet-bulb temperatures and their impacts on plants and non-human animals. As I have reported frequently in this space, wet-bulb temperatures represent a combination...

Fan Anqi and Xie Wenting - 10 July 2023

In what is believed to be the hottest week on Earth in at least 100,000 years, China issued a blue book on climate change on Saturday, warning of ever more frequent extreme heat events across the...

Robert Hunziker - 10 July 2023

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...

Sam Carana - 20 June 2023

In the Arctic, vast amounts of carbon are stored in soils that are now still largely frozen. As temperatures continue to rise and soils thaw, much of this carbon will be converted by microbes into...

Guy McPherson - 20 June 2023

I was recently asked if I could provide [my] “insights on the raging forest fire situation across Canada... I have not found any data on the amount of C02 being expelled, the amount of dark...

Charles Hugh Smith - 16 June 2023

OK, I get it: we all like Hollywood endings: the superhero saves the world, the evil conspiracy is uncovered and the villains get their just desserts and the impossible romance overcomes all the...

Guy McPherson - 12 June 2023

MAY 1, 2023 - From Axios on 19 April 2023 comes an article titled Rapidly developing El Niño set to boost global warming . Here’s the lead: “A double whammy of natural climate cycles and...

A. Sledd, T. S. L’Ecuyer, J. E. Kay, M. Steele - 07 June 2023

As Arctic sea ice retreats during the melt season, the upper ocean warms in response to atmospheric heat fluxes. Overall, clouds reduce these fluxes in summer, but how the radiative impacts of...

Guy McPherson - 07 June 2023

Professor Guy R. McPherson delivered a presentation and then moderated a discussion about anthropogenic climate change at the Rockingham Free Public Library on Thursday, 25 May 2023.

NASA Climate - 29 May 2023

LATEST MEASUREMENT: December 2022 - 345 (± 2) zettajoules since 1955 Ninety percent of global warming is occurring in the ocean, causing the water’s internal heat to increase since modern...

David Barriopedro, Ricardo García–Herrera, Carlos Ordóñez, Diego G. Miralles and Sancho Salcedo–Sanz - 28 May 2023

Heat waves are extreme climate events that have become a major societal concern since they are expected to increase in frequency, intensity, and duration throughout the 21 st century.

Guy McPherson - 16 May 2023

I have reported on the dire impacts of global peak oil at guymcpherson.com for many years. My reports from August 2007 onward indicate the potential for peak oil to terminate industrial...

teleSUR staff - 22 April 2023

The Artic is suffering from waste carried in from other regions of the world by ocean currents, river systems and air currents. The alga Melosira arctica, which grows under Arctic sea ice, contains...