Conflict In North Africa Threatens Gas Supply To Europe
Conflict In North Africa Threatens Gas Supply To Europe A diplomatic crisis between Morocco and Algeria threatens gas supply to Spain Spain considers importing more (expensive) LNG Algeria faces a number of problems in expanding its gas market share in Europe European natural gas supplies are not only waning because of lower Russian supply. Brussels, […]
UK Considering Legislation That Would Imprison Internet Trolls
UK Considering Legislation That Would Imprison Internet Trolls This blatant attempt at the censorship of online speech is deeply concerning. If you ever need a reminder of how important freedom of speech is, all you need to do is look across the pond. The United Kingdom, which doesn’t have a First Amendment, has slowly seen […]
Zambia state power firm says nation in countrywide blackout
Zambia state power firm says nation in countrywide blackout LUSAKA, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Zambia was experiencing a nationwide power blackout on Saturday after an unidentified problem, the state utility said, adding that it was working to restore electricity supply. “We have lost power countrywide resulting from a fault, which is yet to be determined. […]
Zero Carbon Sooner—Revised case for an early zero carbon target for the UK
Zero Carbon Sooner—Revised case for an early zero carbon target for the UK Cover image: Anthony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’ in Liverpool; photographed by Donald Judge / flickr.com (CC-BY 2.0); modified Summary This paper is an update of an earlier briefing note[1], revised to take account of new findings from the IPCC’s updated 6th Assessment Report (AR6). The broad […]
Why 4°C?
Why 4°C? Climatologists say that civilization can’t survive global warming of 4oC over the pre-industrial average. Some climatologists even say that civilization can’t survive 3oC. A temperature increase of 4oC over the pre-industrial average sounds fairly trivial so why would that cause civilization to collapse? First, for Americans, a 4.0oC temperature increase corresponds to a […]
The case for … making low-tech ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones
The case for … making low-tech ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones The Ma’dan people in Iraq weave buildings and floating islands from reeds. Photograph: Esme Allen/TSPL High-tech smart cities promise efficiency by monitoring everything from bins to bridges. But what if we ditched the data and embraced ancient technology instead? Ever since smartphones hooked us […]
What ‘transition’? Renewable energy is growing, but overall energy demand is growing faster
What ‘transition’? Renewable energy is growing, but overall energy demand is growing faster The rise in the renewable energy that’s available is still lower than the rise in global energy demand overall. The shortfall between renewable energy supply and power demand will only widen as economies reopen and travel resumes, with demand already spiking to […]
Degrowth and Decolonisation in the Red Zone
DEGROWTH AND DECOLONISATION IN THE RED ZONE Hello world. Welcome to Glasgow. Welcome to Scotland. We are drawing on Glasgow’s radical past to inject hope and urgency into the moribund COP process. YOUR VISION OF our country may be an idealised one of lochs brimming with salmon and glens filled with deer, but in reality […]
New Documentary: Headwind”21
New Documentary: Headwind”21 Wow, I was taken aback somewhat by this new documentary just released in September. Of course, I’ve known for quite some time that the “green” and “clean” and “renewable” labels affixed to different projects are nothing more than hype and PR. However, the fact that the people in charge of all of this actually […]
How winter could worsen the global energy crisis.
How winter could worsen the global energy crisis.
Brink of Totalitarianism
Brink of Totalitarianism
Donella Meadows: Sustainable Systems
Donella Meadows: Sustainable Systems
Janet Yellen Admits The “Net Zero” Grand Reset Price Tag Will Be $150 Trillion
Janet Yellen Admits The “Net Zero” Grand Reset Price Tag Will Be $150 Trillion For years, the climate change lobby was laser-focused on just one aspect of the “climate change” crusade: the end – which supposedly is some world where the temperatures no longer rise due to fossil fuel emissions (because we now live in […]
Property ownership in a small farm future
Property ownership in a small farm future And so we come to the thorny issue of landownership and property rights in a small farm future, which I discuss in Chapter 13 of my book. A lot of people I encounter profess complete disdain for the very idea of ‘owning’ land, usually along the lines of […]
