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At Last – Solar Minimum Discussions Begin
At Last – Solar Minimum Discussions Begin COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; You are the only one with your computer that has correctly forecast the weather years in advance. I understand these are not some premonition of you on a personal level. That means putting the major trends together as you do actually produce results. My hat’s off to […]
How to Destroy a River and Create an Environmental Catastrophe in One Fell Swoop
How to Destroy a River and Create an Environmental Catastrophe in One Fell Swoop The St Louis River of Northern Minnesota will be as Vulnerable to Annihilation as were Brazil’s Rio Doce and Paraobeba Rivers(pictured below) – if the PolyMet Project is Allowed to Proceed (Trying to understand why every Brazilian mining catastrophe has been blacked-out by the […]
The Renewable Revolution Has A Lithium Problem
The Renewable Revolution Has A Lithium Problem As the global middle class rapidly expands, so too does the worldwide demand for energy and its subsequent carbon footprint. Global climate change will be one of the greatest, if not the single greatest, challenges of this next century, and one of the few feasible solutions that is […]
Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don’t Know Why Scientists are telling us that we have entered “the sixth major extinction” in the history of our planet. A brand new survey of 73 scientific reports that was just released has come to the conclusion that the total […]
SURPRISE! French Study Confirms Ultra-processed Foods Increase Risk Of Early Death
SURPRISE! French Study Confirms Ultra-processed Foods Increase Risk Of Early Death In a not so surprising announcement, a French team has discovered during a study that ultra-processed foods accelerate your risk of mortality. According to the new research, humans face a 14% higher risk of early death with each 10% increase in the amount of […]
Climate change is killing off Earth’s little creatures
Climate change is killing off Earth’s little creatures Climate change gets blamed for a lot of things these days: inundating small islands, fueling catastrophic fires, amping-up hurricanes and smashing Arctic sea ice. But a global review of insect research has found another casualty: 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered. It confirms what many have been […]
Is a key ingredient humans need to live about to run short?
Is a key ingredient humans need to live about to run short? Phosphorus is essential for all living organisms. So, it’s not surprising that humans get their phosphorus from other living organisms, mostly plants, that have absorbed phosphorus from the soil. The introduction of phosphate fertilizers made it possible to ensure that enough phosphorus for […]
Finance, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change
Finance, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change Networks of Power in Canada In our home country of Canada, the disparity between climate rhetoric and practice was recently pushed into the spotlight when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – an avowed climate champion – purchased on behalf of Canada an unfinished bitumen pipeline from Houston-based corporation Kinder-Morgan. The […]
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 […]
