What is Ecological Overshoot?
What is Ecological Overshoot? What is ecological overshoot and why is it important? Is it a more important predicament than climate change? What about energy and resource decline – more important than it? The answer to the latter two questions is YES and ecological overshoot is important because it is the predicament which is causing all the other predicaments […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author This contemplation was prompted by an article regarding an ‘independent’ think tank’s report that presented the argument that government funding of the oil and gas industry needed to be shifted towards ‘green/clean’ alternatives. I’ve included a few hyperlinks to sites that expand upon the concepts/issues discussed. […]
Canada Spent $23 Billion to Support Pipelines in Just Three Years
Canada Spent $23 Billion to Support Pipelines in Just Three Years Taxpayers should understand the financial and climate risks of the big commitment, says an independent report. Governments’ financial support for pipelines is financially and environmentally risky, says a report. Photo from Trans Mountain. Canadian pipelines have received over $23 billion in support from federal and […]
Russia Says US Engineered June’s Black Sea Provocation, “We’ll Sink” Any Threat Next Time
Russia Says US Engineered June’s Black Sea Provocation, “We’ll Sink” Any Threat Next Time In the days after the June 23 incident between the UK Royal Navy’s HMS Defender and a Russian patrol vessel and military aircraft near Crimea which resulted in warning shots fired from the Russian side, Putin asserted that a US reconnaissance plane had […]
The concept of Peak Sun Hours
The concept of Peak Sun Hours Further to my recent post about the intermittency of solar power, I thought I’d tackle some of you more mathematically challenged and hopefully bring more light (no pun intended) to the problems facing those who believe in 100% renewables running complex civilisation. If on a perfect cloudless sunny day you plot the […]
California Begs For More Electricity As Shift To Renewable Power Leaves State In The Dark
California Begs For More Electricity As Shift To Renewable Power Leaves State In The Dark
European Bank For Reconstruction And Development Ends All Upstream Oil Financing
European Bank For Reconstruction And Development Ends All Upstream Oil Financing The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will no longer invest in oil and gas exploration and production, the bank’s Managing Director Harry Boyd-Carpenter told Reuters as the institution pledged to align all its activities to the Paris Agreement goals from the end of next […]
While Fed Is in Denial, Hawkish Bank of Russia Sees Inflation as “Not Transitory,” Warns of Possible Shock-and-Awe Rate Hike
While Fed Is in Denial, Hawkish Bank of Russia Sees Inflation as “Not Transitory,” Warns of Possible Shock-and-Awe Rate Hike US Inflation is almost as hot as in Russia, but the Fed is still blowing it off. Consumer price inflation in Russia is red-hot, having jumped 6.0% in May compared to a year ago, 2 […]
Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever
Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever Some animals are more equal than others. “All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia,” declares a policy page, “must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV).” This is essential policy, believe it or not. Maybe that will be hard to believe, if you have read many Wikipedia articles on controversial topics lately. But […]
How to Transplant Seedlings Into Your Garden
Photo by CHU TAI on Unsplash How to Transplant Seedlings Into Your Garden Planting your own vegetables and fruits is a big task for any gardener. You’ve put so much time into caring for your seedlings, so moving them from their little pots into your garden is a significant step that takes care and patience. Some plants do […]
Keeping the Balance
Keeping the Balance COMMENT: Civil unrest is defivately rising, your models are so good at looking far into the future! With incidents like this, I really find it interesting reading public comments on social media are empathetic and typically left leaning. I also find it interesting how ignorant the left are in not realizing that they are […]
Climate change consequences: Too hot, too wet and out of time
Climate change consequences: Too hot, too wet and out of time The last few weeks have demonstrated that we have arrived at the climate change catastrophe long prophesied by climate scientists—a catastrophe that many thought we still had decades to avert. In the Pacific Northwest high temperatures broke records day after day. In my former […]
“PoP” Goes the Weasel
“PoP” Goes the Weasel How do you plan your work in your garden? One of the things that is most likely to affect what you do is rainfall. But how do you know when and how much rain is likely to fall? One way to get an idea of the possibility of rain is to […]
Crisis, Crash, Collapse
Crisis, Crash, Collapse We have a fine-sounding word for running with the herd: momentum. When the herd is running, those who buy what the herd is buying and sell what the herd is selling are trading momentum, which sounds so much more professional and high-brow than the noisy, dusty image of large mammals (and their […]
