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Arctic riches: A most insane discussion
Arctic riches: A most insane discussion As climate change rips away the icy armor of the Arctic, nations surrounding the North Pole and companies eager to exploit the area’s mineral wealth–particularly oil and natural gas–are growing giddy with anticipation. So reports the Associated Press, though the AP is by no means the first to report […]
Gas Station Shortages Expected In Texas As Gulf Coast Premiums Hit Record Highs
Gas Station Shortages Expected In Texas As Gulf Coast Premiums Hit Record Highs According to retail fuel supplier Mansfield Oil, short-term fuel supplies for Houston and San Antonio are significantly impacted by Tropical Storm Harvey. Bloomberg reports that San Antonio and Houston supplies are at code red, while Corpus Christi was downgraded to code orange […]
Hurricane Harvey Will Render Some Parts Of Texas ‘Uninhabitable For An Extended Period Of Time’
Hurricane Harvey Will Render Some Parts Of Texas ‘Uninhabitable For An Extended Period Of Time’ Do you remember what Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans? Well, now we are watching the same thing happen to southeast Texas. On Friday, Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a category 4 hurricane. It is the first hurricane to make […]
Scott Cahill: Collapse Risk At The Oroville Dam Is Still Unacceptably High
Scott Cahill: Collapse Risk At The Oroville Dam Is Still Unacceptably High Bungled repairs and new concerns at the tallest US dam Remember the crisis earlier this year at the Oroville Dam? The overflow from California’s winter of heavy rain threatened to overpower our country’s tallest dam. A cascading failure of the dam’s main gates, […]
Gulf of Mexico DEAD ZONE caused by agricultural runoff from U.S. farms
Gulf of Mexico DEAD ZONE caused by agricultural runoff from U.S. farms (Natural News) Every year, a hypoxic zone appears along the Gulf of Mexico. Otherwise known as a “dead zone,” it is an area of water that contains little to no oxygen. The significantly reduced levels essentially makes the body of water a biological […]
Quantifying the causes of the recent decrease in US CO2 emissions
Quantifying the causes of the recent decrease in US CO2 emissions Between 2007 and 2015 total annual US CO2 emissions decreased by 740 million tons (12%). An updated analysis shows that 35% of this decrease was caused by natural gas replacing coal in electricity generation, 30% by lower fuel consumption in the transportation sector, 28% […]
European Floods and Fake Science
European Floods and Fake Science I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago targeting the BBC for biased reporting on energy and climate issues. It was never published because in writing it I realised that the the problem did not necessarily lie with the BBC but with the climate science fraternity. Another alarmist article […]
NASA Unveils Plan To Stop Yellowstone “Supervolcano” Eruption, There’s Just One Catch
NASA Unveils Plan To Stop Yellowstone “Supervolcano” Eruption, There’s Just One Catch A NASA plan to stop the Yellowstone supervolcano from erupting, could actually cause it to blow… triggering a nuclear winter that would wipe out humanity. As we have detailed recently, government officials have been closely monitoring the activity in the Yellowstone caldera. However, […]
The Black Plague is Back Showing Up in Arizona
The Black Plague is Back Showing Up in Arizona This has caused a real flood of emails since it has started right on target. Our model of plagues we wrote : “We certainly seem due for a pandemic, which likely will occur between 2017 and 2020 thanks to the abuse of antibiotics.” We wrote that January 27th, 2016. […]
Will EV’s Break The Grid?
Will EV’s Break The Grid? While the UK government has vowed to end the sale of all new conventional gasoline and diesel cars by 2040, as part of a wider plan to fight air pollution, there is talk that electricity demand will lead to a fast and dirty response to a strained power grid. But […]
Can economic growth continue without fossil fuels? The IPCC thinks so — here’s why its decarbonisation models are broken
Can economic growth continue without fossil fuels? The IPCC thinks so — here’s why its decarbonisation models are broken (Source: VICE) Published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project for people and planet. Support us to keep digging where others fear to tread. In this third contribution to our symposium, ‘Pathways to the Post-Carbon Economy’, biophysical economist Graham […]
Britain bans gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040
Britain bans gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040 When will hybrids and electric cars really take over? Britain will ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040 as part of a bid to clean up the country’s air. The decision to phase out the internal combustion engine heralds a new era […]
Tesla Cars Aren’t As Carbon (And Taxpayer) Friendly As You Think
Tesla Cars Aren’t As Carbon (And Taxpayer) Friendly As You Think Tesla proponents love to remind people how their vehicles are “carbon free” (in spite of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s own carbon profligate lifestyle): Fact: the Tesla Model S is an environmentally friendly, zero emissions electric vehicle that won’t pollute the air like gas-powered cars. Carbon emissions […]
Climate Change & How It Has Made Us Who We Are Today
Climate Change & How It Has Made Us Who We Are Today All we ever hear is how Climate Change is caused by humans and it will destroy the world. They have been yelling that New Orleans and Miami will be UNDER WATERwithin the next century as rising sea levels put more than 400 US […]
The 75,000 Mile Wide Hole In The Sun Could Black Out Earth’s Communications
The 75,000 Mile Wide Hole In The Sun Could Black Out Earth’s Communications The sunspot spotted by NASA as our sun creeps toward its solar minimum is 75,000 miles wide. That has huge implications for our satellites and communications systems, and the sunspot could cause some blackouts on Earth. The huge sunspot has the potential […]
