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This Flu Season Begins the Risk of a Pandemic 2018-2019
This Flu Season Begins the Risk of a Pandemic 2018-2019 A possible new pandemic is forming from a deadly strain of flu emerging from Australia and will be headed to the UK as the normal flow of travels would take it. Britain will perhaps be hit with the worst flu season in 50 years. Already, […]
Oil Giants Are Increasingly Focused On Sustainability
Oil Giants Are Increasingly Focused On Sustainability Pioneer Natural Resources just published its first Sustainability Report, a sign that a growing number of oil companies are feeling the heat from investors over climate change. Environmental groups have mostly targeted the largest oil companies, both because their sheer size means that they have a larger impact […]
2017 Year In Review
Tortoon/Shutterstock 2017 Year In Review Markets fiddle while Rome burns Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]
Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster”
Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster” On Tuesday, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania signed a declaration of disaster emergency, after a two-day storm dumped 5-feet of snow. Heavy lake-effect snow set record-setting snowfall totals in the snow belts to the east of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. From […]
“This Is Not A Symbolic Action” — Indigenous Protesters Occupy Oil Platforms in Radicalized Fight Against Pollution in the Amazon
Photo: Ben Depp for The Intercept “This Is Not A Symbolic Action” — Indigenous Protesters Occupy Oil Platforms in Radicalized Fight Against Pollution in the Amazon THE SKIFFS ARRIVED a few hours after sundown on September 18, a dark and moonless night in the Peruvian Amazon. They landed at several points along the broad Corrientes […]
And You Thought Bitcoin Was Volatile…
And You Thought Bitcoin Was Volatile… If you are one of those people living in the Northeast who likes to keep their home temperature above freezing and waking up without frostbite, we have some bad news… Another sudden bout of cold weather and LNG prices are soaring more than the seasonal norm. Your heating bill […]
Trump To Rollback Deepwater Horizon Regulations
Trump To Rollback Deepwater Horizon Regulations The Trump administration is hoping to slash regulations on offshore oil drilling that were implemented after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed nearly a dozen people and led to an oil leak that spewed for months. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental […]
The Menacing Insect Omen
The Menacing Insect Omen The world is experiencing a massive loss of insects. In turn, this threatens ecosystems with utter total collapse, and, by way of direct association, loss of human civilization. Zap, it’s over! Insectageddon! Insect populations around the world are under massive attack and dropping like… well… like flies. The negative implications run […]
Northeast Forecast To Get Big Winter Blast
Northeast Forecast To Get Big Winter Blast Three days ago, we asked: Is A Major Winter Blast Coming To The East Coast This Christmas? Despite all the chatter from global warming alarmists this year, there is a chance, some in the Northeast could experience a white Christmas. Ed Vallee, a private weather forecaster based in Connecticut, reports […]
2017: Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review
2017: Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review As the year draws to a close, Carbon Brief takes a look at 2017’s top climate and energy stories through the medium of numbers… 49 countries For CO2 emissions to fall, they first have to peak. And research published this year suggests that this is already happening. The report, produced […]
A Dam(n) Big Fracking Problem
A Dam(n) Big Fracking Problem Regulators left behind as industry built dozens of unauthorized dams — many at risk of failure. The province’s Environmental Assessment Office has ordered Progress Energy to drain almost all water from this seven-storey dam, built without required approvals. The company is now seeking a retroactive exemption from the assessment process. […]
2017 Year in Review–James Howard Kunstler
2017 Year in Review 2017 was the kind of year when no amount of showers could wash off the feeling of existential yeccchhhhh that crept over you day after day like jungle rot. You needed to go through the carwash without your car… or maybe an acid bath would get the stink off. Cinematically, if […]
Life on 1/10th the Fossil Fuels Proves to Be Awesome
LIFE ON 1/10TH THE FOSSIL FUELS PROVES TO BE AWESOME That’s according to Peter Kalmus, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in California. Alarmed by drastic changes in the Earth’s climate systems, Kalmus, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world in the process. He cut his carbon footprint by […]
The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 “Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the Gulf.” —Sylvia Earle […]
