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Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make
Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make This past weekend Texas experienced its first tropical weather event for the 2021 season, and the season doesn’t officially begin until June 1st. Each year the tropics have been becoming active earlier than expected, and at this time they are unofficially starting the season in mid-May. Now […]
Is a “Climate Lockdown” on the horizon?
Is a “Climate Lockdown” on the horizon? If and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won’t be going anywhere. Instead it looks like they’ll be rebranded as “climate lockdowns”, and either enforced or simply held threateningly over the public’s head. At least, according to an article written by an […]
Leak Reported At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant
Leak Reported At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant A nuclear power plant in southeastern China could turn into an “imminent radiological threat,” the part owner of the facility, a French company, has told the United States, CNN reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials and a letter of the French firm it had obtained. The U.S. has been assessing […]
Vancouver Council Votes Against Delay for Climate Emergency Plan
Vancouver Council Votes Against Delay for Climate Emergency Plan City bylaw will require new homes built after Jan. 1 to use zero-emissions heat and hot water systems, effectively banning natural gas hookups. ‘What’s clear to me after years of doing climate work is that climate delay is the same as climate denial,’ said Coun. Christine […]
The ‘Big Con’ Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive ‘Net Zero’ Strategy
A brown coal mining machine operating at the Welzow-Sued lignite opencast mine in Welzow, eastern Germany. A new report out Wednesday details how so-called “net zero” pledges are simply schemes propagated by the fossil fuel industry and other powerful interests “to mask inaction, foist the burden of emissions cuts and pollution avoidance on historically exploited […]
One Shocking Chart That Has Farmers Trembling With Fear
One Shocking Chart That Has Farmers Trembling With Fear Readers know by now that the Western US is facing one of the most severe droughts in years. We’ve documented (read here & here) this spring of a “megadrought” sweeping across states like California and Nevada as risks of a second Dust Bowl increase by the day. But in this note, […]
Peter Foster: Mark Carney, man of destiny, arises to revolutionize society. It won’t be pleasant
Peter Foster: Mark Carney, man of destiny, arises to revolutionize society. It won’t be pleasant What Carney ultimately wants is a technocratic dictatorship justified by climate alarmism Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, is the author of Value(s): Building a Better World for All. PHOTO BY DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS/FILE In his book Value(s): Building […]
Fossil Fuels Aren’t Dying, They’re Shifting To National And State Backed Companies
Fossil Fuels Aren’t Dying, They’re Shifting To National And State Backed Companies Despite the activist shareholder battles, calls for ESG changes and just outright negative press about fossil fuels, it looks like rumors of oil’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Fossil fuels aren’t dying – rather, their output is just being shifted to national and state […]
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’ In October 2020, I analysed press coverage of degrowth in Western European (English language) newspapers and magazines between January 2015 and October 2020. Using media theory concepts such as agenda setting and framing, my research explored how degrowth is being considered in the […]
Net Zero: a failure for climate change mitigation
Net Zero: a failure for climate change mitigation
Ranchers Sell Off Cattle And Farmers Idle Hundreds Of Thousands Of Acres As America’s Drought Emergency Escalates
Ranchers Sell Off Cattle And Farmers Idle Hundreds Of Thousands Of Acres As America’s Drought Emergency Escalates In my entire lifetime, this is the worst that drought conditions have ever been in the western half of the country. During the past 20 years, the amount of territory in the West considered to be suffering from […]
PG&E Warns Of More Blackouts As California Wildfire Season Begins
PG&E Warns Of More Blackouts As California Wildfire Season Begins It has been an arid spring in California, and that’s causing alarm with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executives who have said this week they will need more frequent power cuts to customers in Northern California to prevent wildfires. PG&E’s chief risk officer Sumeet Singh told WSJ that California’s […]
Saudi Arabia And Russia Warn Of Major Oil Supply Crunch
Saudi Arabia And Russia Warn Of Major Oil Supply Crunch The debate about emissions reduction and the path forward for oil companies moved to a whole new level since the International Energy Agency (IEA) dropped last month the bombshell report suggesting no new investment in oil and gas would be needed if the world is to reach […]
Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales, Part Two
Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales, Part Two This facade of the main street in Thurmond, West Virginia, looks impressive but hides the fact that this is a ghost town. No businesses actually exist in these buildings today and the entire town only has 4 or 5 residents today. More info can be obtained here and here. * […]
‘Monumental Steps’ on Protecting Old Growth Says Horgan. Critics Aren’t Convinced
‘Monumental Steps’ on Protecting Old Growth Says Horgan. Critics Aren’t Convinced BC defers logging of southern Vancouver Island old growth after months of protests and blockades. Premier John Horgan announced a pause in old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island Wednesday. Photo: BC government. The British Columbia cabinet has agreed to defer the logging of 2,000 hectares […]
