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Morgan Stanley: “Climate Will Be A Key Driver Of Asset Prices In The Months And Years Ahead”
Morgan Stanley: “Climate Will Be A Key Driver Of Asset Prices In The Months And Years Ahead” “Sunday Start”, authored by Morgan Stanley equity strategist, Jessica Alsford In three weeks, the world’s leaders will begin to gather in Madrid for the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference. The intensity of the global climate strikes this […]
Immediate moratorium on fracking in England because of tremor risk
Immediate moratorium on fracking in England because of tremor risk Gooseneck at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, 5 August 2019. Photo: Ros Wills After seven years of promoting fracking, Conservative ministers have withdrawn their support and blocked the prospects of a shale gas industry. The UK government has issued an immediate moratorium in […]
Fed Warns Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The Economy
Fed Warns Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The Economy What is a good way for the Fed to deflect attention from the fact that after a decade of liquidity injections it has created the world’s largest asset bubble? Why point to another, even bigger – in its view – threat. And with green […]
UK Ban Adds to the Tremors Taking Down the Fracking Industry
UK Ban Adds to the Tremors Taking Down the Fracking Industry How long can BC and Alberta ignore the financial and geological realities facing them? The dramatic decision by the British government to ban the disruptive technology of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is just one of two volatile storms now shaking the industry. And both […]
Keystone attitudes and policies of enough
Keystone attitudes and policies of enough In the previous blog post, I asserted that states and international governance bodies need to make systemic or upstream interventions to foster stability and security in economy and society. where they have high leverage potential. Then, governance needs to continue to respond intelligently to what arises. In Enough is Plenty, […]
Peak Stainless Steel
Peak Stainless Steel This study shows that there is a significant risk that stainless steel production will reach its maximum capacity around 2055 because of declining nickel production, though recycling, and use of other alloys on a very small scale can compensate somewhat. The model in this study assumes business as usual for metal production […]
Several Blasts Of Arctic Air Will Bring Early Winter To Northeast
Several Blasts Of Arctic Air Will Bring Early Winter To Northeast Several days ago, Ed Vallee, head meteorologist at Empire Weather LLC, stated that an Arctic blast of cold air would roll into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions later in the week, with the chance of producing one of the first snowmaking weather events of the year. As […]
Inconvenient Truth: Best Way To Help The Environment Is To Avoid Green “Eco-Friendly” Products
Inconvenient Truth: Best Way To Help The Environment Is To Avoid Green “Eco-Friendly” Products Make no doubt about it: it’s now trendy to be the most planet-loving, alternative energy supporting, climate changing fighting Captain Planet that you can be. And what would being a friend to environment be without sanctimoniously ridiculing those who disagree with you or […]
UK Gov’t Halts Fracking In England Ahead Of General Election
UK Gov’t Halts Fracking In England Ahead Of General Election The U.K. fracking industry has grounded to halt as the British government ended its support for the controversial practice of extracting oil out of the ground, reported Bloomberg. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government announced Saturday that all new hydraulic fracturing wells would be banned. The country’s […]
Dammed Good Question about the Green New Deal
Dammed Good Question about the Green New Deal Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast […]
Agrochemical Apocalypse: Interview with Environmental Campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason
Agrochemical Apocalypse: Interview with Environmental Campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason The renowned author and whistleblower Evaggelos Vallianatos describes British environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason as a “defender of the natural world and public health.” I first came across her work a few years ago. It was in the form of an open letter she had sent to […]
Trees and the TMEX
Trees and the TMEX Just before the recent federal election in Canada, the Liberal party committed to planting two billion trees over the next 10 years, the cost of which is to be “offset by forthcoming revenues from the Trans Mountain pipeline.” However, a closer look at the proposed deal shows that sequestration of carbon dioxide by […]
The Climate Crisis Is Real: Here’s the Expert Advice on What We Need to Do
The Climate Crisis Is Real: Here’s the Expert Advice on What We Need to Do A global primer on next steps, from keeping oil in the ground to changing our diets to shifting to a green economy. “The world is waking up,” Thunberg told world leaders at the recent UN Climate Action Summit. “And change […]
