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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. […]
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 1
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 1 Research has powerfully illustrated that a lack of knowledge in domains such as energy and the environment can lead to bad decisions and erroneous beliefs that hinder a society’s ability to create change in domains that require it KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING Rather self-evident, isn’t it? Certainly that […]
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity While we’re discussing education, the theme of the current series of posts here on The Archdruid Report, it’s necessary to point out that there are downsides as well as upsides to take into account. The savant so saturated in abstractions that he’s hopelessly inept at the business of […]
Toxic Wheat, GMOs and the Precautionary Principle
Toxic Wheat, GMOs and the Precautionary Principle Ben Shahn Daughter of Virgil Thaxton, farmer, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio 1938Recently, I posted a two-tear old article on facebook.com/TheAutomaticEarth that was shared so many times it seems to make sense to use it for an Automatic Earth article as well. The article asks how toxic the wheat we eat is […]
Fate of Keystone XL Pipeline Could Be Decided in a Texas Courtroom Before NAFTA Tribunal Considers TransCanada’s Suit
Fate of Keystone XL Pipeline Could Be Decided in a Texas Courtroom Before NAFTA Tribunal Considers TransCanada’s Suit Texas landowner Michael Bishop continues to challenge TransCanada’s right to build the southern route of the Keystone XL pipeline, renamed the Gulf Coast pipeline when the project was divided into segments. Meanwhile, TransCanada is suing the United States for not being granted the […]
Climate, Energy, Economy: Pick Two
Climate, Energy, Economy: Pick Two Dorothea Lange Miserable poverty. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, OK 1936We used to have this saying that if someone asks you to do a job good, fast and cheap, you’d say: pick two. You can have it good and cheap, but then it won’t be fast, etc. As our New Zealand correspondent Dr. […]
Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal
Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal After nearly a decade of engineering work on the project, the Panama Canal’s expansion opened for business on June 26. At the center of that business, a DeSmog investigation has demonstrated, is a fast-track export lane for gas obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the United […]
