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California goes carbon negative
California goes carbon negative Last week Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to cut California’s electricity sector emissions , which account for about 16% of the state’s total emissions, to zero by 2045. But an Executive Order he signed on the same day calls for 100% of California’s totalemissions not only to go to zero […]
By Enforcing Climate Change Denial, Trump Puts Us All in Peril
By Enforcing Climate Change Denial, Trump Puts Us All in Peril North Carolina has been hit with a storm of biblical ferocity. Florence has left at least 17 dead there, 500,000 without power, with flash flooding across the state from the coast to the western mountains. Landslides and infectious diseases are predicted to follow. North […]
The Power of the Anthropocene
The Power of the Anthropocene Photo Source Doc Searls | CC BY 2.0 “So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective […]
Bill Gates: The Threat Of A “Disease X” Global Pandemic Is “Very Real”
Bill Gates: The Threat Of A “Disease X” Global Pandemic Is “Very Real” When it comes to global health policy, Bill Gates has never been known for subtlety. So it’s hardly surprising that his charitable foundation’s latest report on the greatest challenges facing mankind might make some readers want to lock themselves in an indefinite […]
How to Green the Desert: Europe’s Heatwave and Some Holistic Suggestions
HOW TO GREEN THE DESERT: EUROPE’S HEATWAVE AND SOME HOLISTIC SUGGESTIONS In the Northern Hemisphere, the balance of light is turning ever more towards darkness as we approach the Autumn Equinox. This is following a summer which in many places was unusually hot and dry(1, 2). This is perhaps not unexpected; climate change scientists have […]
What Will it Take to Avert Collapse?
What Will it Take to Avert Collapse? A lot of people are asking the question these days—including serious folks who work full-time on climate and energy policy. How can the world’s nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to forestall climate catastrophe, without undermining either the global economy (which is still 85 percent dependent on […]
MANGKHUT: Dramatic footage of the strongest storm on earth
MANGKHUT: Dramatic footage of the strongest storm on earth September 17, 2018, 1:11 PM –Hong Kong’s financial district began cleaning up Monday, after Typhoon Mangkhut roared through the region sporting winds over 200 kilometres per hour and forcing the relocation of 2.45 million people in Guandong, China alone. There have been widespread reports of enormous […]
The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare
The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has clearly documented the multiple risks — despite repeated dismissals from the oil and gas industry — that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) poses to drinking water supplies. However, the tables may be turning: Water itself now poses a risk to the already failing financial model of the American fracking industry, and […]
The flood washes over us
The flood washes over us A year ago I wrote an article discussing Hurricane Harvey. Here we are again watching another 1 in a 1,000 year hurricane disaster unfold. I won’t try to summarize all the other weather disasters that have been unfolding around the world this year. This year is going to be the […]
Florence Death Toll Climbs To 17 As 3-Month-Old Dies; Wilmington “Virtually Cut Off”
Florence Death Toll Climbs To 17 As 3-Month-Old Dies; Wilmington “Virtually Cut Off” The storm that is now known as Tropical Depression Florence has seen its winds slacken since it first reached the Carolina coast on Friday (though it has battered parts of the state with wind and rains since Thursday), but the unceasing rains […]
“KING OF STORMS” Devastates Hong Kong, Makes Landfall in China Sunday
“KING OF STORMS” Devastates Hong Kong, Makes Landfall in China Sunday On Friday, two massive storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — made devastating landfall on opposite ends the world, but are leaving behind destruction in different ways. For Florence, it was mainly a rain event in the Carolinas. For Mangkhut, it was the wind […]
2016-18 Big Chill – NASA Confirms Global Cooling?
2016-18 Big Chill – NASA Confirms Global Cooling? What I find really distasteful is how the media is so corrupt that all they want to do these days is to manipulate us into mindless drones. All we hear is Global Warming and they seem to be paid to push this just as they have done […]
Why Can’t Japan Kick Coal And Nuclear?
Why Can’t Japan Kick Coal And Nuclear? Earlier this year we reported on a startling anomaly in the global energy market that even the experts couldn’t have predicted. Just one nation, alone against the greening tides, was turning back to coal–Japan. Now, half a year later, a newly released report shows that Japanese financial institutions […]
