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BP’s First Global Advertising Campaign Since Deepwater Horizon Accused of Being ‘Deceptive and Hypocritical’
BP’s First Global Advertising Campaign Since Deepwater Horizon Accused of Being ‘Deceptive and Hypocritical’ Nearly a decade after being held responsible for the largest marine oil spill in history, BP’s first global advertising campaign in ten years has been denounced as “deceptive and hypocritical”. The global advertising campaign called “we see possibilities everywhere” aims to showcase BP’s efforts to embrace […]
Human carbon emissions to rise in 2019
Human carbon emissions to rise in 2019 Tropical forests continue to suffer devastation. Image: By ViniLowRaw on Unsplash Here comes another dismal science forecast, with human carbon emissions due to rise this year. Forests may be unable to keep pace as global warming increases. LONDON, 31 January, 2019 − Stand by for a year in which global warming can only […]
Nothing Can be Reduced to a Single Cause & Effect be it Markets or Nature
Nothing Can be Reduced to a Single Cause & Effect be it Markets or Nature QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong, Thanks for the Socrates forecast. Just a question. What will possibly happen to existing Tropic Belt countries like my region South East Asia when the world is turning into global cooling? Any forecast? Regards, SS ANSWER: I […]
Freezing Minnesotans Putting “Significant Strain” On Natural Gas System; Hotel Rooms Offered Amid Outage
Freezing Minnesotans Putting “Significant Strain” On Natural Gas System; Hotel Rooms Offered Amid Outage Residents in central Minnesota braving a historic cold snap of minus 21 degree s are being urged to turn down their thermostats and reduce how much natural gas they use, according to CBS Minnesota. The announcement by Xcel Energy is due to the […]
Canada’s Petro Paralysis, Diagnosed
Canada’s Petro Paralysis, Diagnosed Three books show how bitumen blocks democratic solutions to our climate crisis. Costly Fix: Power, Politics and Nature in the Tar Sands Ian Urquhart University of Toronto Press (2018) Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming Kevin Taft Lorimer (2017) The Big Stall: […]
You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes
You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes So off went the Emperor in procession under his splendid canopy. Everyone in the streets and the windows said, “Oh, how fine are the Emperor’s new clothes! Don’t they fit him to perfection? […]
6 Reasons to Bundle Up and Get Outside During Winter
6 Reasons to Bundle Up and Get Outside During Winter Brrrr! Winter is here, and if it is chilly in your neck of the woods, you might be tempted to hunker down and stay indoors until Spring arrives. Winter can really take a toll on our moods, making even the warmest personalities turn as chilly […]
Amidst Global Warming Hysteria, NASA Expects Global Cooling
Amidst Global Warming Hysteria, NASA Expects Global Cooling Those promoting CO2 as the reason for global warming are hucksters and those taken in by hucksters. Please consider NASA Sees Climate Cooling Trend Thanks to Low Sun Activity. “We see a cooling trend,” said Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. “High above Earth’s surface, near the […]
As Midwest Freezes, Aussie Heatwave Reaches Record Highs
As Midwest Freezes, Aussie Heatwave Reaches Record Highs While Midwest America hunkers down for the coldest temperatures in a generation, temperature records have also tumbled across South Australia, with the city of Adelaide experiencing its hottest day on record. Life-threatening cold is sweeping across Chicago… As Australians face animal culls, mass fish deaths across the nation, roads […]
Germany Plans to Quit Coal by 2038 ‘But There’s a Problem’
Germany Plans to Quit Coal by 2038 ‘But There’s a Problem’ In an effort to fight climate change, Germany announced plans to quit coal mining and burning by 2038. All 84 of the country’s coal-fired power plants will be shut down over the 19-year time frame, a government-appointed commission announced Saturday, according to The Los Angeles Times. It’s a […]
Declare a Green War Now!
Declare a Green War Now! Struggle has brought man into being. Struggle against nature, against other humans, within himself. Today it is no different. The task now set before us is gargantuan transformation. Nothing less is required than changing humanity’s social and economic relationship to the planet. The good news is that more and more […]
Permafrost thaws as global warming sets in
Permafrost thaws as global warming sets in Stone circles caused by permafrost on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Image: By Hannes Grobe, via Wikimedia Commons Global warming is at work far below the surface, at depths seemingly insulated from the greenhouse effect. This is bad news for the permafrost. LONDON, 29 January, 2019 – Even in […]
Climate Change & Commodities
Climate Change & Commodities QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I love the fact that you look at everything from a pure cyclical perspective. Al Gore who started this whole mess was not a climatologist. He was a politician. You are 100% correct that people will believe what they want to believe. There is no talking to one […]
Treading Water
Treading Water Life on the farm has always presented a comforting predictability. A seasonality of changes: winter’s arrival of lambs, marketing of the hogs come spring and fall, the early spring budding of fruits and vines, planting of the first cabbage beginning in late February or early March. We have built our farming practices around […]
Complacency and the Environmental Catastrophe
Complacency and the Environmental Catastrophe Ask any reasonably well-informed person what the cause of climate change is and the chances are they will say greenhouse gas emissions (GGE’s), but they would only be partially correct. While it is true that man-made GGE’s are clogging Earth’s lower atmosphere, trapping heat and resulting in widespread climate change, […]
