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“Environmental Extremism” or Necessary Response to Climate Emergency? Pipeline Shutdown Trials Pit Activists Against the Oil Industry
Still: Steve Liptay “ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM” OR NECESSARY RESPONSE TO CLIMATE EMERGENCY? PIPELINE SHUTDOWN TRIALS PIT ACTIVISTS AGAINST THE OIL INDUSTRY AN ACTIVIST IN Montana was sentenced on Tuesday in a case that has become both a touchstone for industry-friendly legislators pushing to increase penalties for pipeline protest and a measure of the U.S. legal system’s […]
Waiting on amber: a note on regenerative agriculture and carbon farming
Waiting on amber: a note on regenerative agriculture and carbon farming This post offers some further notes on the issue of carbon farming and regenerative agriculture, arising out of the discussion in this recent post of mine, particularly via the comments of Don Stewart. Don set me some onerous homework – a lengthy presentationby Elizabeth […]
Agricultural Innovation with John-Paul Maxfield
Agricultural Innovation with John-Paul Maxfield John-Paul founded Waste Farmers with $9,000 and a belief that idealism and capitalism can coexist. Waste Farmers has evolved into an innovator respected by leaders in the global community for developing simple solutions to the complex problems of modern agriculture and food security. Mar 20, 2018 John-Paul Maxfield | Photo […]
New study gives 150 million reasons to reduce carbon emissions
New study gives 150 million reasons to reduce carbon emissions A new study suggests that holding the world to 1.5° Celsius of warming could prevent more than 150 million deaths. MORE THAN 150 MILLION DEATHS COULD BE PREVENTED BY TAKING RAPID CLIMATE ACTION. THIS WOULD BE LARGELY THROUGH A DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION. CREDIT: KEVIN […]
Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice
Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland – regardless of current efforts to reduce emissions. That is the stark conclusion of a new study, which analyses the […]
Water Wars Loom: UN Warns 5 Billion People Will Face Civilizational Threat By 2050
Water Wars Loom: UN Warns 5 Billion People Will Face Civilizational Threat By 2050 While residents of Cape Town, South Africa, brace for Day Zero (the day that the city of 4 million’s municipal water supply will be cut off for most households and businesses in order to preserve water after a severe drought that […]
Yellowstone Supervolcano Fears Rise As World’s Largest Active Geyser Erupts First Time Since 2014
Yellowstone Supervolcano Fears Rise As World’s Largest Active Geyser Erupts First Time Since 2014 A series of potential eruptions have been reported from the world’s largest active geyser at Yellowstone National Park. If confirmed, they would be the first since 2014. Weather.com reports that park officials said employees reported seeing an eruption at the Steamboat […]
Fourth Nor’Easter Of The Month Could Paralyze North East (Again)
Fourth Nor’Easter Of The Month Could Paralyze North East (Again) Just when you thought it was the first day of spring… Ed Vallee, head meteorologist at Vallee Weather Consulting LLC., warns of the fourth nor’easter this month — expected to slam into the North East on Wednesday: “Another coastal storm will take shape Tuesday off […]
Energy Externalities Day 2: Gas-fired-CCGT
Energy Externalities Day 2: Gas-fired-CCGT Day 2 of The Energy Externality Game and we are assessing gas fired power generation using a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT). In scoring gas we need to take into account the whole of the gas exploration and supply side of the business (which is complex, see below), transportation of gas […]
The Collapse of Society – Are the Doom & Gloomers Even on the Right Page?
The Collapse of Society – Are the Doom & Gloomers Even on the Right Page? QUESTION: Hey Marty, Thanks for the incredible information you are sharing. I subscribe to your service and read your blog every day. Do preppers have any justification in planning for a complete collapse, be it economic, political or otherwise? I keep […]
Cancer, George Monbiot and Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout
Cancer, George Monbiot and Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout Photo by JK the Unwise | CC BY 2.0 George Monbiot, who has now been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the young age of 55, was therefore born in 1963, at the peak of the atmospheric test fallout. He is thus a peak exposed (at risk) member […]
Canada’s Pipeline Challenges Will Force More Tar Sands Oil to Move by Rail
Canada’s Pipeline Challenges Will Force More Tar Sands Oil to Move by Rail The Motley Fool has been advising investors on “How to Profit From the Re-Emergence of Canada’s Crude-by-Rail Strategy.” But what makes transporting Canadian crude oil by rail attractive to investors? According to the Motley Fool, the reason is “… right now, there is so much excess oil being […]
The Externalities of Energy Production Systems
The Externalities of Energy Production Systems The economics term externality is a cost or benefit accrued by a third party from the actions of others where the third party did not choose to acquire said costs or benefits. The term has been widely adopted by the environmental lobby to describe negative impacts of energy production systems. […]
Hope from chaos: could political upheaval lead to a new green epoch?
Hope from chaos: could political upheaval lead to a new green epoch? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) published its first major report28 years ago. This watershed document described the ominous implications of escalating emissions and the scale of the challenge in reversing this seemingly inexorable trend. Today, despite four further IPCC reports, 23 […]
Community fights massive drilling site planned near public school in low-income area
Community fights massive drilling site planned near public school in low-income area Oil and gas company originally planned to drill in largely white, middle-class neighborhood. AN OIL DRILLING OPERATION NEAR A SUBDIVISION IN WELD COUNTY, COLORADO. CREDIT: HELEN H. RICHARDSON/THE DENVER POST VIA GETTY IMAGESResidents of a city along Colorado’s Front Range are fighting the […]
