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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; […]
25 Oil Tankers Stuck In Gulf, Unable To Offload Due To Harvey Port Closures
25 Oil Tankers Stuck In Gulf, Unable To Offload Due To Harvey Port Closures According to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg, coupled with MarineTraffic real-time tracking, at least 25 tankers carrying almost 17 million barrels of imported crude oil are drifting near Texas and Louisiana ports, unable to offload because of closures from Tropical Storm […]
Houston Warns Bridges And Roads Are “Starting To Fail”
Houston Warns Bridges And Roads Are “Starting To Fail” As Tropical Storm Harvey heads back inland, slamming southwest Texas with another 15-25 inches of rain, Housting officials are reporting that the city’s critical infrastructure is starting to fail under the weight of the floodwaters, and may soon collapse. According to Reuters, roads and bridges in […]
UK Flooding Events and Fake Science
UK Flooding Events and Fake Science Blöschl et al (2017, ref 1) published a paper in Sciencethat purports to show flooding in S England occurs every year but only ever in January and that flooding is disconnected in time from extreme rainfall events via water storage in soils. The changing pattern with time is ascribed […]
Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it’s still raining
Reuters / Richard Carson Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it’s still raining The pictures are heartbreaking, the statistics are mind-boggling. And, incredibly, it’s still getting worse. Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas late Friday night, more than 40 inches of rain have fallen in parts of the Houston metro […]
There Is “Eight Feet Of Water” On Houston Roads, And It’s About To Get Much Worse
There Is “Eight Feet Of Water” On Houston Roads, And It’s About To Get Much Worse Amid desperate efforts to save stranded citizens – police report over 3,000 rescues alone – and the arrival of the so-called ‘cajun navy’to assist, Harvey continues to pummel Texas, paralyzing Houston as the region braces for yet more rain […]
When the Butterfly Flaps Its Wings
When the Butterfly Flaps Its Wings It remains to be seen what the impact will be from Mother Nature putting the nation’s fourth largest city out-of-business. And for how long? It’s possible that Houston will never entirely recover from Hurricane Harvey. The event may exceed the physical damage that Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans. […]
