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US Study Confirms Rapid Increase of Methane Emissions by Oil and Gas
US Study Confirms Rapid Increase of Methane Emissions by Oil and Gas Spike corresponds with timing of shale gas boom. The Four Corners region of New Mexico and Colorado. Light-coloured spots are sites of gas and oil development. Credit: Flickr user Doc Searls, Creative Commons licensed. Another U.S. scientific study has confirmed that methane emissions from oil […]
Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn For The Worse
Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn For The Worse defotoberg | Shutterstock.com News broke this week that Monsanto accepted a $66 billion takeover bid from Bayer. The new company would control more than 25 per cent of the global supply of commercial seeds and pesticides. Bayer’s crop chemicals business is the world’s second largest […]
Climate change doubled the chances of Louisiana heavy rains, scientists warn
Climate change doubled the chances of Louisiana heavy rains, scientists warn A Coast Guardsman looks out from an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter searching for stranded residents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on 15 August, 2016. Credit: Melissa Leake/US Dept. of Agriculture. Climate change doubled the chances of Louisiana heavy rains, scientists warn Torrential rains unleashed on south Louisiana […]
Macro and Climate Economics: It’s Time to Talk About the ‘Elephant in the Room’
MACRO AND CLIMATE ECONOMICS: IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE “ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM” Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series by the author. Up next: “The most important and misleading assumption in the world.“ If we want to maximize our ability to achieve future energy, climate, and economic goals, we must start to […]
Why ‘overregulated’ California is leading the way
Why ‘overregulated’ California is leading the way Ideologues hate it when the facts get in the way of their theories. California’s Gov. Jerry Brown signed trailblazing legislation last week that commits the state to audacious greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2030 of 40 percent below 1990 levels. Not surprisingly, longstanding critics from the business community were howling once […]
Environmental Concerns — and Anger — Grow in Month After Thousand-Year Flood Strikes Louisiana
Environmental Concerns — and Anger — Grow in Month After Thousand-Year Flood Strikes Louisiana In the aftermath of the 1000-year flood that hit southern Louisiana in August, environmental and public health concerns are mounting as the waters recede. Residents want to know why many areas that never flooded before were left in ruin this time, raising […]
Alabama, Tennessee, & Georgia Declare States Of Emergency As Gas Shortages Loom After Pipeline Leak
Alabama, Tennessee, & Georgia Declare States Of Emergency As Gas Shortages Loom After Pipeline Leak As Native Americans protesters face arrest in North Dakota for blocking the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, TheAntiMedia’s Carey Wedler reports a gasoline pipeline spill is currently unfolding in the South. The leak has prompted Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, and Georgia Gov. […]
Learning More on How to Think About Soil
LEARNING MORE ON HOW TO THINK ABOUT SOIL I don’t know why it is, but I’ve taken to waking up at about five every morning. I kiss my wife Emma on the head, creep downstairs from the loft of our apartment and spend the next hour or more watching Geoff Lawton videos from the PDC course. She […]
How Climate Change Could Jam The World’s Ocean Circulation
How Climate Change Could Jam The World’s Ocean Circulation Scientists are closely monitoring a key current in the North Atlantic to see if rising sea temperatures and increased freshwater from melting ice are altering the “ocean conveyor belt” — a vast oceanic stream that plays a major role in the global climate system. Mariusz Kluzniak/Flickr Melting […]
Some Thoughts on Systems Change
Some Thoughts on Systems Change It becomes clearer with each passing day that simply ameliorating current problems is not going to be sufficient. This blog is about how we might scale up transformative change. There is an ongoing litany of alarming and depressing news regarding climate change and the growing gap between our aspirations for addressing […]
Obama Again Sounds Climate Change Alarm But Continues Supporting Fossil Fuel Industry
Obama Again Sounds Climate Change Alarm But Continues Supporting Fossil Fuel Industry On September 8, The New York Times published an interview with President Barack Obama in which he discussed the rapidly approaching, and already present, dangers of climate change, along with the threats that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would pose to the environment as president. Reflecting on his climate […]
Breaking: Justice Department Overrules Court, Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Halted
Breaking: Justice Department Overrules Court, Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Halted (ANTIMEDIA) North Dakota — On Friday, a federal court sided with Energy Transfer Partners, allowing the company to continue construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The ruling came after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe attempted to halt the pipeline’s construction through the justice system because they claimed it would […]
“Environmentalism” and Rabies
“Environmentalism” and Rabies When an animal catches rabies, in the end stages, it manifest bizarre, aggressive behavior. A normally shy raccoon will charge a human, growling and frothing at the mouth. There is only one treatment for a rabid raccoon. How about humans afflicted with the disease called “environmentalism”? It is a form of rabies […]
Long-term oil spill causes fishery collapse in Newfoundland
Long-term oil spill causes fishery collapse in Newfoundland File photo courtesy: Pixabay Monday, August 15, 2016, 4:51 PM – An oil spill that has been seeping into Port au Port Bay near Shoal Port for three years has caused a once-abundant scallop fishery to “collapse”, the Canadian Press (CP) reports. The continuous spill, which sometimes […]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Fossil Fuels Forever
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Fossil Fuels Forever Think of them as omens of our age. While global temperatures have been soaring lately — May was the 13th month in a row to break all-time heat records — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just reported, more parochially, that this was the hottest June on record for the lower 48 states. […]
