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To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth Rick Nease / The Detroit Free Press / MCT Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage […]
Cop-26–Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
COP26 – Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
Degrowth–the promising climate change strategy no politician wants to handle
Degrowth – the promising climate change strategy no politician wants to handle?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth
To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth Expectations for the 2021 COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage on the Glasgow conference’s next-to-last day. Nakate chided her audience […]
Biden Asks The World For Help Easing The Global Energy Crisis
Biden Asks The World For Help Easing The Global Energy Crisis Oil prices have fallen below a key psychological barrier on news that Biden is trying to persuade a number of countries to release crude from their Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Biden’s highly unusual move comes just months after he made another request to OPEC+ to […]
Can the Green New Deal save us? No it can’t.
Can the Green New Deal save us? No it can’t. Advocates for a Green New Deal are for a collection of admirable goals which it is usually taken for granted can be achieved within a capitalist economy and while the pursuit of economic growth continues. Here is an indication of the main reasons why these […]
The End of Growth: ten years after
The End of Growth: ten years after Fifty years ago the authors of the groundbreaking book The Limits to Growth showed that, in any of a series of computer-generated scenarios, world economic growth would end sometime during the 21st century. Using simple math and logic, they pointed out that growth in any material input or output cannot continue […]
Net-Zero Policies: Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison gesture prior to a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 30, 2021. (Kirsty Wigglesworth- Pool/Getty Images) VIEWPOINTS Net-Zero Policies: Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich It is too often overlooked in all […]
New Rule: OK, Zoomer
New Rule: OK, Zoomer
“The Peter Principle” Is Alive And Well Across The World
“The Peter Principle” Is Alive And Well Across The World Have We Hit Our Level Of Incompetence? The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities […]
