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Robert Hunziker (MA, economic history) is a freelance writer and environmental journalist whose articles (over 200) have been translated into foreign languages and appeared in over 50 journals, magazines, and sites worldwide, like Z Magazine, The Ecologist Magazine, Climate Himalaya, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Comite Valmy, and UK Progressive. He has been interviewed on radio and TV on Pacifica Radio, KPFK, FM90.7, Indymedia On Air, and the World View Show/UK, and Thom Hartmann’s Big Picture, Norman B’s Life Elsewhere, 88.5WMNF, and more.
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Sea Level Acceleration
Significantly, the past 150 years of sea level rise is unprecedented in human history. A graph of the last 30 years of satellite recordings demonstrates the rate of rise increasing during the first 10 years at 2mm per year followed by 3mm in the middle 10 years and 4.5mm per year over the past 10 years.
Kiss the Amazon Goodbye?
The rainforests hydrological role for the planet extends all the way to the cornfields of Iowa and across the oceans. The Amazon embodies the essence of life for our biosphere.
America's Biggest Reservoirs Hit By Dead Pool Jitters
This horror story of failing reservoirs that provide crucial power and water for dense population centers and key agricultural regions represents an inexcusable failure by leadership in government and business to listen to warnings from scientists for four decades.
World Drought Gets Worse - Cities Ration
Adapting to record-setting drought in the United States is happening, especially in desert cities in America's arid West - living proof that adaptation to a broken climate system is possible and likely for decades to come.
Climate Armageddon Revisited
Massive hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, Maria) and torrential flooding (Houston, Sierra Leone, Bihar-India, Assam-India, Nepal, Mumbai, Southern Asian Noah's Ark territory) are only telltale signs, minor events in a bigger picture, like canaries in the proverbial mineshaft, warning of a much larger canvas painted with darkened hues, threatening like the distant rumbling of an upcoming mega storm.
The Fukushima Fix
It remains an open question as to whether the Fukushima aftermath will be worse than Chernobyl. After all, the China Syndrome may be actively at work at Fukushima and as such could last over many lifetimes.
Still, the immediate direct exposure of radiation over population centers at Chernobyl was significantly more than Fukushima of which 80% drifted out into the Pacific Ocean.
