Food Inflation Is the 2022 Crisis, Not Supply Chains
Food Inflation Is the 2022 Crisis, Not Supply Chains The real trouble will start when this year’s energy crisis morphs into next year’s food inflation problem. We’ve all become armchair inflation experts. And why not? It’s almost impossible for anyone to keep getting it as systematically incorrect as professional economists have done this year. It’s time for the […]
Plant lists that shouldn’t exist
Plant lists that shouldn’t exist Nothing drives me crazier than simplistic solutions to complex problems. Given our changing climate, there has been an explosion of “drought tolerant” and “firewise” plant lists in the gardening world. Most of these lists are devoid of science and all of them are removed from reality. The fact is that […]
When Surging Floods Meet Expanding Pipelines
When Surging Floods Meet Expanding Pipelines The impact of last week’s deluge sends a sobering message, say engineers and activists. Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline near Hope, BC, in October. The pipeline is currently shut down due to massive floods and landslides that hit the province last week. Photo by Jonathan Hayward, the Canadian Press. […]
CopOut26, B Grade Cabaret Not Science
CopOut26, B Grade Cabaret Not Science Mercifully, the charade known as Cop 26 has drawn to it’s ignominious end. Almost all commentators are describing this latest Cop as a near total failure. As I have mentioned previously in this space it’s a near total success. The USA created the IPCC to prevent activists scientists from holding […]
Brits Google ‘Energy Bill Help’ As Energy Suppliers Go Bankrupt
Brits Google ‘Energy Bill Help’ As Energy Suppliers Go Bankrupt Extreme gas price volatility has led to a string of bankruptcies among British energy suppliers UK Household gas bills have risen by 28.1 percent and electricity bills 18.8 percent in the year to October Germany’s recent decision to halt approval of the Nord Stream 2 […]
Wheat soars to 9-year peak on supply concerns, strong demand
Wheat soars to 9-year peak on supply concerns, strong demand CHICAGO, Nov 22 (Reuters) – U.S. wheat futures rallied to their highest in nearly nine years on Monday as ill-timed rains in Australia and rising Russian wheat prices stoked concerns about tightening supplies among the world’s top exporters. Corn and soybeans followed wheat higher, with […]
Rising flood waters surround aid camp in South Sudan putting tens of thousands at risk
Rising flood waters surround aid camp in South Sudan putting tens of thousands at risk Aid workers fear that protective mud dikes could soon break, leaving thousands of children in 1.5m deep murky water A displaced persons camp with the same population as Oxford is surrounded on all sides by rising flood waters. Aid workers […]
Hogwash
Hogwash In the early 1980s, to Margaret Thatcher’s annoyance, union reps and managers at the steelworks in Port Talbot agreed a strategy to save the plant. As a result, Port Talbot was spared the post-industrial blight visited upon most of Britain’s ex-industrial towns. Now in private hands, and despite periodic crises, the steelworks employs some […]
Gazprom Will Halt Gas Flows To Moldova In 48 Hours Over Non-Payment
Gazprom Will Halt Gas Flows To Moldova In 48 Hours Over Non-Payment European natural gas prices could surge as new reports indicate Gazprom will halt all natural gas flows to Moldova, an Eastern European country, in 48 hours over non-payment for its gas consumption. The news follows Germany’s energy regulator, which suspended the approval process for the […]
Australian Army Begins Transferring COVID-Positive Cases, Contacts To Quarantine Camps
Australian Army Begins Transferring COVID-Positive Cases, Contacts To Quarantine Camps The Australian army has begun forcibly removing residents in the Northern Territories to the Howard Springs quarantine camp located in Darwin, after nine new Covid-19 cases were identified in the community of Binjari. The move comes after hard lockdowns were instituted in the communities of both Binjari and nearby Rockhole on […]
China peak diesel
China peak diesel Fig 1: Aljazeera video on truck lines October 2021. Shortages could last for months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_uiSlgbIA BBC reporting: China rations diesel amid fuel shortages 29/10/21 Petrol stations in many parts of China have begun rationing diesel amid rising costs and falling supplies. Some truck drivers are having to wait entire days to refuel, […]
OPEC+ Reportedly Threatening Response To Global Coordinated SPR Release
OPEC+ Reportedly Threatening Response To Global Coordinated SPR Release In an apparent ‘threat’ response to headlines suggesting the Biden administration is attempting to coordinate a global SPR release to push down oil prices (and following reports from Japanese media that the government is preparing to release crude from its strategic stockpiles), the Riyadh-based International Energy Forum said OPEC+ […]
Greenwashing in Tuscany: Hydrogen trains
Greenwashing in Tuscany: Hydrogen trains Hydrogen as a magic word hits Tuscany again. Now, it is the turn of the “Faentina” railroad to be greenwashed. It is an old line that connects Florence to the city of Faenza on the other side of the Appennini mountains. Destroyed during WWII, it was considered a “dead branch” by the Italian authorities […]
When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons
When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion. The consequences of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is difficult to discern in day-to-day life. It’s easy to dismiss the ubiquity of artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, fraud, collusion […]
Weekly Commentary: Trouble on the Horizon
Weekly Commentary: Trouble on the Horizon November 19 – Reuters (Francois Murphy and Paul Carrel): “Austria will become the first country in western Europe to reimpose a full COVID-19 lockdown, it said on Friday as neighbouring Germany warned it may follow suit, sending shivers through financial markets worried about the economic fallout. Europe has again […]
