Ice Cracks in Antarctica, Delegates Dither in Berlin
By Donella Meadows
–April 13, 1995–
Stunning news from Antarctica arrived last month just before the world’s nations gathered in Berlin to discuss global climate change. It was as if the South Pole had reared its hoary head again, as it did ten years ago, to galvanize an international agreement.
What happened ten years ago was the discovery of the enormous ozone hole. [...]
Advance News from the Greenhouse
By Donella Meadows
–February 16, 1995–
“Is the Earth Really Getting Warmer?” asked a recent Reader’s Digest article and concluded no, it is not. A few weeks later came a New York Times headline: “Global Warming Resumed in 1994.”
“Give us a break!” I can hear people groaning. “Would the experts please go fight this out over in a corner and stop bothering [...]
Dear Folks: January 20, 1995
Hi, dear folks!
I’m roughly over Cleveland on a TWA jet headed for St. Louis (3 hours late). On my way to Monsanto, about which more later. Late because Boston is foggy. Foggy because the greenhouse effect or El Nino or whatever has brought the warmest, longest January thaw I’ve ever seen. Last Sunday and Monday it was 60 degrees at [...]
Late Frost–A Leading Indicator of Climate Change?
By Donella Meadows
–October 13, 1994–
The first skim of frost came to my garden ten days late this year, on October 2. The squash leaves shriveled, the tomato vines turned black — but only on top. Underneath the plants stayed green and alive. Up by the house the marigolds and petunias were untouched. We had another week of grace before the [...]
You See the Greenhouse Effect When You Believe It
By Donella Meadows
–March 4, 1993–
Well, according to Rush Limbaugh and the Mobil Oil Corporation, we can stop worrying about global warming.
Says Mobil in an ad titled “Apocalypse no”: “Unfortunately, the media hype proclaiming that the sky was falling did not properly portray the consensus of the scientific community…. Subsequent colder than normal temperatures across the country cooled the warming hysteria…. [...]
