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Northeast Braces For Snow And Ice, Travel Disruptions Expected
Northeast Braces For Snow And Ice, Travel Disruptions Expected A fresh round of snow, ice, and rain is hitting the mid-Atlantic this afternoon. By late evening, the storm is expected to sweep across the Northeast into Tuesday night. A quick burst of winter precipitation will be the primary threat across the interior (north of the dashed line) with rain closer to the coast. 11 […]
Dreams Die Hard
Dreams Die Hard Somewhere between the fevered Zzzz’s of American Dreaming and the blinding shock of being “woke,” there is a recognition that an awful lot about contemporary life is not working and can’t go on. At the bottom of this discontent is the mistaken notion that the unwind of modernity can be arrested or […]
Doomsday postponed? What to take from the big new Antarctica studies
ICE TO KNOW YA Doomsday postponed? What to take from the big new Antarctica studies There’s grim, mixed news out about Antarctica. Two new papers on melting Antarctic ice come just days after NASA scientists announced the discovery of a massive subterranean hole in West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, the Florida-sized hunk of ice which alone could unleash […]
Two Pipelines Shut Down After 43 Barrels of Crude Leak into Missouri Soil
Two Pipelines Shut Down After 43 Barrels of Crude Leak into Missouri Soil Parts of two pipelines owned by controversial Canadian pipeline companies remained shut down Thursday following the discovery of a leak near St. Louis, Missouri on Wednesday, CBC News reported. Both TransCanada‘s Keystone pipeline and Enbridge‘s Platte pipeline run parallel to each other through the area. The Keystone […]
Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon?
Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon? US National Security Advisor John Bolton has more or less admitted that the ongoing destabilisation of Venezuela is about grabbing its oil. He recently stated: “We’re looking at the oil assets… We’re in conversation with major American companies now… It will make a big difference to the […]
Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe
Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe “With “capitalism in danger of falling apart” (a rare, cryptically honest quote from Al Gore), and years of stagnant global economic growth now in a free fall, the Greta campaign must be understood for what it is. An elaborate distraction that has nothing to do with protecting the natural world, and […]
US Military Fuel Tanks Threaten Aquifer in Hawaii
US Military Fuel Tanks Threaten Aquifer in Hawaii A major spill of jet fuel in 2014 should have shut down this aging, leaking, storage complex, says Ann Wright. The North Korean missile scare in Hawaii a year ago was alarming. But that fear has abated. Once again the greatest perceived threat to the island of Oahu comes from […]
UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5°C Threshold Within Five Years
UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5°C Threshold Within Five Years Breaching the Paris accord’s designated limit temporarily doesn’t mean all hope is lost for the long-term target, experts explain, “but it does ring an alarm bell.” The Met Office reported this week that global average temperature for 2019 to 2023 will […]
SOTU’s glaring omission
SOTU’s glaring omission Trump missed two little words President’s Trump’s State of the Union address on February 5 was a call for bipartisan action. But mostly of the wrong kind. His southern border wall is of course a controversial and expensive proposition, but it was his boast that the USA now exports more energy than […]
Growing nuclear waste legacy defies disposal
Growing nuclear waste legacy defies disposal Spent nuclear fuel stored under water. Image: By US Dept. of Energy, via Wikimedia Commons Supporters say more nuclear power will combat climate change, but the industry is still failing to tackle its nuclear waste legacy. LONDON, 7 February, 2019 − The nuclear industry, and governments across the world, have yet […]
Silver Linings in the Very Dark Cloud of Climate Catastrophe
SILVER LININGS IN THE VERY DARK CLOUD OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE We actually do not have all the time in the world, so I am going to be bold. What you do after you finish reading this is your business and ultimately, that is exactly as it should be. We may all be facets of a larger […]
Trump Administration Drills Down on Alaska’s Arctic Refuge
Trump Administration Drills Down on Alaska’s Arctic Refuge The deeply unpopular plan would benefit a few rich oil companies while threatening people, wildlife and the climate. The Trump administration is barreling ahead with plans to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the largest refuge in the country and an area of global ecological […]
Still Toxic After All These Years
Grist / EuToch / Getty Images / Alison Cassidy Still Toxic After All These Years Nearly a quarter-century after winning millions from PG&E, the ‘Erin Brockovich’ town continues its fight for clean water. It was a sweltering, 117-degree July day in Hinkley, California. The surface of the 13-mile highway east to Barstow had become an asphalt […]
‘A Red Screaming Alarm Bell’ to Banish Fossil Fuels: NASA Confirms Last Five Years Hottest on Record
‘A Red Screaming Alarm Bell’ to Banish Fossil Fuels: NASA Confirms Last Five Years Hottest on Record “We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.” More than a million acres of land in California were swallowed up by devastating wildfires in 2018, which NASA […]
