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Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming Exclusive: Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance to this good news is doing real damage in the fight against global warming, reports Jonathan Marshall. With petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch paying many of the GOP’s bills these […]
Council of Canadians: Stop Nestle from bottling water on expired permits!
Stop Nestlé from bottling water on expired permits! Send an e-mail to your Member of Provincial Parliament calling on them to speak up against renewing Nestlé’s expired permits and for phasing out bottled water permits for good. 996,568,672 Nestlé is about to take its 1 billionth litre of groundwater on an expired permit […]
A Radioactive Plume That’s Clouded in Secrecy
A Radioactive Plume That’s Clouded in Secrecy September 29 marked the 60th anniversary of the world’s third most deadly— and least known — nuclear accident. It took place at the Mayak plutonium production facility, in a closed Soviet city in the Urals. The huge explosion was kept secret for decades. It spread hot particles over […]
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335 This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds <!> of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high […]
WTI Prices Surge On Keystone Spill
WTI Prices Surge On Keystone Spill Oil prices surged on Wednesday on news that the Keystone pipeline might not restart for several weeks. The outage at the damaged pipeline ended several years of contango for WTI, pushing the benchmark into a state of backwardation for the first time since 2014. TransCanada made a lot of […]
Trump Eyes Arctic Wildlife Refuge for Oil Drilling, Alarming Gwich’in
Trump Eyes Arctic Wildlife Refuge for Oil Drilling, Alarming Gwich’in In the remote north-eastern corner of Alaska, just under 20-million acres have been set aside as a federal protected area since 1960. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has recently come under threat, however, with President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior proposing lifting restrictions on seismic exploration. […]
When the Next Pandemic Hits, Will We Be Prepared?
When the Next Pandemic Hits, Will We Be Prepared? The question isn’t whether a pandemic will strike—it’s how it will play out. Thought leaders gathered at the National Museum of Natural History to discuss the past, present and future of the flu.(Daniel Schwartz) What would it look like if the devastating Spanish flu crisis of […]
Too right it’s Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet
Too right it’s Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet Growth must go on – it’s the political imperative everywhere, and it’s destroying the Earth. But there’s no way of greening it, so we need a new system Illustration: Sebastien Thibault Everyone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise […]
Climate Change and the Challenge to All Forms of Agriculture
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CHALLENGE TO ALL FORMS OF AGRICULTURE We´ve all heard of climate change and probably understand the basics of how excess greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide produced by our society´s burning of fossil fuels is causing the earth´s temperature to rise. We´ve most likely seen maps of what the world will look […]
Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica
Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica Earlier this summer, a paper published in the journal Nature captured headlines with a rather bleak forecast. Our chances of keeping global warming below the 2C danger threshold are very, very small: only about 5%. The reason, according to the paper’s authors, is that the cuts we’re making […]
Fukushima Darkness
Fukushima Darkness Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 The radiation effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triple meltdowns are felt worldwide, whether lodged in sea life or in humans, it cumulates over time. The impact is now slowly grinding away only to show its true colors at some unpredictable date in […]
The Approaching Famine
The Approaching Famine The most serious forecast that we see from our computer models has been a rise in agricultural prices caused by Global Cooling – not Global Warming. Crops cannot grow without the sun and water. Historically, when the weather turns cold, the crops fail. There is no question that food prices will rise […]
What, Me Worry? Humans Are Blind to Imminent Environmental Collapse
What, Me Worry? Humans Are Blind to Imminent Environmental Collapse Accelerating biodiversity loss may turn out to be the sleeper issue of the century. Nature can’t compete with human activity overtaking the Earth. Photo by Ben Chapman, Creative Commons licensed. A curious thing about H. sapiens is that we are clever enough to document — […]
Agriculture and climate change: Is farming really a moveable feast?
Agriculture and climate change: Is farming really a moveable feast? There is a notion afoot that our agricultural production can simply migrate toward the poles in the face of climate change as areas in lower latitudes overheat and dry up. Few people contemplate what such a move would entail and whether it would actually be […]
Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions? TBD.
Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions? TBD. There could be unintended consequences. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 sent planet-cooling aerosols into the atmosphere. Photo by Arlan Naeg/AFP/Getty Images. By Mary Beth Griggs With heat-trapping carbon emissions on the rise again, researchers are looking for ways to turn down […]
