In the last comments to the post the Fundamentals of Ecology, Anna Brown tells me to shut down the comment section and to stop playing games with the people. Before that someone named Taika complained, that I disregard my readers and don’t bother to answer any questions. This is not true. The truth is, that I really try to answer all direct questions. Someone called Anna, probably the same Anna Brown, wrote me in the same post, that I...

There are people, some comments in this blog bear witness, deny Climate Change categorically. Be it as it is. Either the climate is changing or not. The slim chance that it might happen should be reason enough to get prepared for a worst-case scenario. If the climate will not change after all, nothing will be lost. We will just have paid a kind of insurance fee, to be prepared for all eventualities. But this should not concern us in this...

On the June 28, 2010 issue the Time magazine published an article called The Other Financial Crisis. The gist of it being, that many states and municipalities in the USA are still suffering from the financial crises which started in the summer of 2008. And no end is in sight! The interesting point is that preceding the crisis Oil Prices rose to 147 US-Dollar per barrel. As compared to 17 US-Dollars per barrel in 1999 and, and after some ups...

The National Aeronautic and Space Administration, NASA, of the USA has published some graphs, which show the differences of global temperatures in the during the last 100 years. The tendency is obvious. The Climate is Changing. And why shouldn’t it? Nothing is static in nature, everything is constantly changing. An so is the climate. Also, what could be regarded as freaks of nature such as the high temperatures in the norther...

Yet another flood hits the news! The flood in the North-West of Pakistan. A flood in a dimension unheard of in the last 80 years. More than 1000 people have died and many millions are affected. And this is not the only major flood in the year 2010! Perhaps I am biased, but my personal gut feeling tells me the numbers of floods are accumulating and they are getting worse! Could this be the signs of Climate Change? But not only floods are in...