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The New IPCC Report Offers Climate Solutions That Depend on Magic
THE NEW IPCC REPORT OFFERS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS THAT DEPEND ON MAGIC To solve the crisis, we’d have to slow growth. And no one wants to admit that. (Photo: Roxanne Desgagnés/Unsplash) Over the past couple of decades, climate scientists have warned government leaders that global warming could pose an extinction-level threat to humanity. In response, policymakers […]
UK growers warn of shortages of onions, potatoes and other vegetables after extreme weather decimates crops
UK growers warn of shortages of onions, potatoes and other vegetables after extreme weather decimates crops Onion crop down by half and potatoes down by a third after summer heatwave Vegetable yields have fallen by as much as 50 per cent in some parts of the UK, following a year of extreme weather events. Farmers […]
Why Economists Can’t Understand Complex Systems: Not Even the Nobel Prize, William Nordhaus
Why Economists Can’t Understand Complex Systems: Not Even the Nobel Prize, William Nordhaus The “base case” scenario of “The Limits to Growth” 1972 report to the Club of Rome. The strong non-linearity of the behavior of complex systems — including the global economy — is nearly impossible to understand for people trained in economics. William […]
Western Civilization No Longer Exists
Western Civilization No Longer Exists Societal Collapse awaits in the wings if climate change and nuclear war don’t finish us off first The Cheney-Bush and Obama regimes destroyed due process, with the result that American citizens were detained in prison indefinitely without evidence and murdered without evidence or trial. In violation of US and international […]
Climate catastrophe: The median is NOT the message
Climate catastrophe: The median is NOT the message Anyone who has followed the climate change issue in the last 30 years knows that official forecasts provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are quickly upended by developments and have often been obsolete before they were issued. The latest report from the IPCC is […]
Climate Crisis is Upon Us
Climate Crisis is Upon Us One of the more useful allusions hidden in plain sight in the recent IPCC / UN report on climate crisis is the distinction between the pre-industrial and industrial ages that defines the era of climate crisis. Industrial capitalism, a/k/a capitalism, is the cause of climate crisis. Plenty of pseudo-scientific rubbish […]
How A Carbon Tax Would Be Implemented
How A Carbon Tax Would Be Implemented There are no solutions to complex problems – except when the problem becomes so complex it must have a simple solution. That is the paradox thrown up by global warming and the shattering report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report cries out for dramatic, […]
Hurricane Michael’s Impact On Gasoline Demand
Hurricane Michael’s Impact On Gasoline Demand Gasoline demand increased in the Florida Panhandle, southern Georgia, and South Carolina ahead of Hurricane Michael’s arrival to the areas, but repercussions to demand appeared to focus on rack cities in the direct path of the storm, according to our Supply Side daily rack volume data. The increased rack […]
‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate
‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate The United Nations (UN) climate science panel is being accused of ignoring research into fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns that have been key to holding back action on global warming. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — an […]
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It’s Too Late
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It’s Too Late In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth […]
Inevitable De-Industrialisation of Europe
Inevitable De-Industrialisation of Europe EU ministers agreed to binding cuts in CO2 emissions of 35% by 2030. The German auto industry won’t be able to deliver. The Telegraph reports Berlin court orders German capital to ban most diesel vehicles on 11 major roads to counter pollution. Hamburg was first in May. Stuttgart, home of Mercedes […]
The Summer of No Return
The Summer of No Return Photo Source NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 The forecast for August 8th was ominous. The temperature in Portland was predicted to breach 100 hundred degrees for the second time in a couple weeks. In the end, the mercury stalled at 96 degrees because the sun was blotted […]
We Witnessed The 3rd Largest Point Crash In Stock Market History On The Same Day That The 3rd Most Powerful Hurricane To Ever Hit The U.S. Made Landfall
We Witnessed The 3rd Largest Point Crash In Stock Market History On The Same Day That The 3rd Most Powerful Hurricane To Ever Hit The U.S. Made Landfall If you don’t believe in “coincidences”, what are we supposed to make of this? On Wednesday, the 3rd most powerful hurricane to ever hit the United States […]
The IPCC Special Report – mountain or molehill?
The IPCC Special Report – mountain or molehill? According to a number of media sources the just-released IPCC Special Report confirms that climate change is about to fry us (We need massive changes to avoid climate hell says Wired Magazine). In fact it adds nothing of significance to what the IPCC concluded in its 2014 […]
