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Hurricane Harvey Looters Targeting Fuel Tanks As Google Searches For “How To Siphon Gas” Soar
Hurricane Harvey Looters Targeting Fuel Tanks As Google Searches For “How To Siphon Gas” Soar Texas resident Joe Roan woke up to a rather unpleasant surprise yesterday morning as he discovered the remnants of a would-be thief attempting to steal gasoline from his Jeep Wrangler tank. Unfortunately, as a local CBS affiliate pointed out last […]
Scientist Confirms: Harvey Caused A “1-In-1,000-Year Flood”
Scientist Confirms: Harvey Caused A “1-In-1,000-Year Flood” Scientists have confirmed what one renowned weather forecaster has suspected for days: Hurricane Harvey was a “1-in-1,000-year flood.” That’s according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center, who claim there is nothing in the historical record that rivals the devastation resulting from the […]
Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature Between 1872 and 1882, Frederick Engels worked on a book titled “The Dialectics of Nature” that sought to apply Marxist dialectics to the natural world. Although it was never completed and is filled with dated ideas about science, it is a work that has earned the respect of […]
Harvey Victims Face Toxic Pollution as Hurricane Recovery Begins
HARVEY VICTIMS FACE TOXIC POLLUTION AS HURRICANE RECOVERY BEGINS TEXAS COMMUNITIES THAT have long experienced health problems from nearby oil refineries and chemical plants are now facing the fossil fuel industry’s longer-term impacts: storms made more severe by climate change and the painful recovery process that follows their landfall — a recovery made far worse […]
“Rapidly Intensifying” Hurricane Irma Barreling Straight Toward The East Coast
“Rapidly Intensifying” Hurricane Irma Barreling Straight Toward The East Coast The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has just updated its forecast for what it is now referring to as a “rapidly intensifying” Category 2 hurricane in the Eastern Atlantic ocean and the results look disastrous for a large swath of the Caribbean and Southeastern United States. […]
Worries about a Galveston Bio-Lab
Worries about a Galveston Bio-Lab Exclusive: The flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey has left thousands homeless in the greater Houston area but there also is rising concern about a biological lab in Galveston that houses deadly diseases, notes Joe Lauria. Concern is rising for the safety of a biological lab containing deadly diseases on Galveston […]
Is Hurricane Harvey a Harbinger for America’s Future?
Is Hurricane Harvey a Harbinger for America’s Future? Over the past week we have seen two major tropical storms devastate different parts of the world. First Typhoon Hato struck Hong Kong and Southern China killing at least a dozen people. And over the weekend Hurricane Harvey made landfall from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing extremely […]
Gasoline Prices Surge After Colonial Pipeline Shutdown, East Coast Fuel Shortages Loom
Gasoline Prices Surge After Colonial Pipeline Shutdown, East Coast Fuel Shortages Loom Gasoline prices have exploded higher once again this morning – topping the Maginot Line of $2.00 for the first time since July 2015 – following reports that the main conduit for fuel from the Gulf to the East Coast has been shut due […]
CO2 is Changing the Jet Stream in Ways that will Create more Harveys
CO2 is Changing the Jet Stream in Ways that will Create more Harveys The flooding over Houston has become absolutely devastating, and now it is officially record-breaking. Parts of Southeast Texas have now seen 50 inches of rain since Friday — and the rain is still falling. “The record for total rainfall from a tropical […]
Arkema CEO: “No Way To Prevent Imminent Explosion” At Flooded Texas Chemical Plant
Arkema CEO: “No Way To Prevent Imminent Explosion” At Flooded Texas Chemical Plant Yesterday we reported, that in a potentially disastrous outcome from the Harvey flooding, a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas belonging to French industrial giant Arkema SA, has announced it is evacuating workers due to the risk of an explosion, after Tropical Storm […]
Harvey Makes Second Landfall In Louisiana After Leaving “Apocalyptic” Flooding, Record Rainfall In Texas
Harvey Makes Second Landfall In Louisiana After Leaving “Apocalyptic” Flooding, Record Rainfall In Texas Five days after it first plowed into southwest Texas as a category 4 hurricane, Tropical Storm Harvey has made second landfall west of Cameron on the border between Texas and Louisiana, early Wednesday according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm, […]
How Exxon Used the New York Times to Make You Question Climate Science
How Exxon Used the New York Times to Make You Question Climate Science A breakthrough study from Harvard unearths the extent Exxon has gone to in order to destroy the public’s trust in climate change science. Last week, Harvard University researchers Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes (of Merchants of Doubt fame) published the first peer-reviewed study comparing ExxonMobil’s internal […]
The Climate Crisis as seen by the economics mainstream
The Climate Crisis as seen by the economics mainstream Mainstream economics frames the climate crisis in a particular way but this approach is not at all helpful. There have been a variety of controversies which show clearly how economists think – like the “price of a life” controversy. The findings of the Stern Review were […]
Turn Your Sink and Shower Water Into An Abundant Oasis
TURN YOUR SINK AND SHOWER WATER INTO AN ABUNDANT OASIS Chances are that you have probably heard of the importance of conserving water. Dozens of governmental and non-governmental organizations have orchestrated campaigns trying to convince the average person to reduce the amount of water that they use. From high-efficiency laundry machines to shower heads that […]
Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope
Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom. Overshoot is a systemic issue. Over the past century-and-a-half, enormous amounts of cheap energy from fossil fuels enabled the rapid growth of resource extraction, manufacturing and consumption; […]
