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Major Investors Pressure ExxonMobil to Consider Climate Impacts
Major Investors Pressure ExxonMobil to Consider Climate Impacts “For the first time, in my memory, we are actually seeing oil and gas majors talk about climate change as an existential threat. Today for example the minister for oil and gas for Saudi Arabia, Ali Al-Naimi, actually got up on stage in front of this entire group and […]
Fukushima’s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis
Fukushima’s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis March 11th is the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan’s NHK broadcaster recently conducted a poll of how citizens feel about nuclear power. According to NHK’s poll results, over 70% are in favor of completely or partially abandoning nuclear power plants. Nothing too surprising about that, but […]
On Pretending That What’s Happening Isn’t Actually Happening
On Pretending That What’s Happening Isn’t Actually Happening “Unbelievable Winter Color” by Albert H. Krehbiel Des Plaines River, 1928 Deep Winter Ruminations In December I found myself sliding into a state of extreme unwillingness to take on new projects, to continue work on those in hand, to write, or do much of anything else, really, […]
The problem with a carbon tax in Canada
The problem with a carbon tax in Canada Last week, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna indicated the federal government has not yet determined the national minimum carbon price which is part of its climate strategy. McKenna rejects any assertions the current economic environment is not the time to impose carbon pricing. Frédéric Bastiat (1850) forewarned of […]
What Could Go Wrong? Brazil Plans To Kill Zika With Gamma Radiation Burst
What Could Go Wrong? Brazil Plans To Kill Zika With Gamma Radiation Burst Having “nailed it” with the feces-infused water for the Olympics, killed the golden goose of its economy, and unable to crackdown on widespread corruption, Brazil now has a ‘great’ idea to solve its utterly disastrous Zika epidemic… by zapping millions of male mosquitoes […]
Nature Did It First (and Best).
NATURE DID IT FIRST (AND BEST). Aquaponics are a very interesting development in the world of permaculture and offer some great benefits and advantages. Let’s take a look at hydroponics and aquaponics to see what they offer, and how aquaponics functions in comparison to hydroponics. Hydroponics – the ingenious and highly optimized system of growing […]
Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki
Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki ‘We have to rethink everything’ says noted environmentalist. A Tyee Q&A. David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip at a media scrum outside the B.C. Superior Court Monday morning. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa. Flooding valuable farmland to build the Site C dam undermines Canada’s commitment to meet […]
Scientists calculate our debt to the Earth
Scientists calculate our debt to the Earth Wheat crops on the Kansas High Plains in the US depend on aquifer water. Image: James Watkins via Flickr Researchers in the US have found a way to put a monetary value on the multitude of vital services and assets we rely on nature to provide us cost-free. LONDON, 24 […]
How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease
How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the felling of tropical forests creates optimal conditions for the spread of mosquito-borne scourges, including malaria and dengue. Primates and other animals are also spreading disease from cleared forests to people. In Borneo, an island shared by […]
Fukushima – Deep Trouble
Fukushima – Deep Trouble The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster may go down as one of history’s boundless tragedies and not just because of a nuclear meltdown, but rather the tragic loss of a nation’s soul. Imagine the following scenario: 207 million cardboard book boxes, end-to-end, circumnavigating Earth, like railroad tracks, going all the […]
The US: A Nation In Dire Need of Energy and Climate Policy
The US: A Nation In Dire Need of Energy and Climate Policy A new Harvard University study finds that world methane emissions have recently spiked, and that the US appears to be the site of most of the increase. Natural gas fracking is the apparent culprit. This finding should be (though I wouldn’t bet on it) the […]
United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts
United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts The Sabine Pass LNG terminal owned by Cheniere Energy in southwest Louisiana offers a glimpse of the challenges facing the growing natural gas industry in the United States. The first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) was scheduled for export from Cheniere Energy’s new export […]
Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science
Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science Guest essay by Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences (Emeritus) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the text of a lecture delivered on August 20, 2015 to the 48th Session: Erice International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies In many fields, governments have a monopoly on the […]
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, It’s Not Just What Exxon Did, It’s What It’s Doing
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, It’s Not Just What Exxon Did, It’s What It’s Doing The time scale should stagger you. Just imagine for a moment that what we humans do on this planet will last at least 10,000 more years, and no, I’m not talking about those statues on Easter Island or the pyramids or the […]
