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What is the US “Gas Stove Ban” REALLY about?What sounds like overeach in itself, is actually a cover for something potentially far, far worse.
What is the US “Gas Stove Ban” REALLY about?What sounds like overeach in itself, is actually a cover for something potentially far, far worse. The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not […]
Colder Weather Might Return To Northwest Europe Next Week
Colder Weather Might Return To Northwest Europe Next Week European natural gas prices have plunged to pre-Ukraine invasion levels on mild winter. Heating demand across the EU has declined, allowing fuel storage tanks to continue injections and remain above seasonal levels. This bodes well for the energy-stricken continent, but new weather forecasts suggest a late-month […]
Ozone Layer Recovers, Limiting Global Warming: UN Report
Ozone Layer Recovers, Limiting Global Warming: UN Report A UN-backed scientific panel tasked with assessing the effects of the 1989 Montreal Protocol – an international agreement to phase out Ozone Depleting Substances – has found that the ozone layer continues to strengthen, and as a result, the earth will avoid 0.3 – 0.5°C of global warming […]
Renewables Are Slowly Approaching Diminishing Returns
Renewables Are Slowly Approaching Diminishing Returns Photo by Ryan Grice on Unsplash Once a source of hope for maintaining our modern lifestyle, renewables are close to hit diminishing returns (i.e.: providing less and less benefit to society with every addition of a new solar panel or wind turbine). For the record: fossil fuels have long passed the same […]
Torrential Rains Trigger Flash Floods Across California
Torrential Rains Trigger Flash Floods Across California Since the end of December, a ‘parade of cyclones’ has swamped California. The latest round of torrential rain has caused flooding in Los Angeles County, and still unclear in the early morning hours of Tuesday the extent of the destruction, though social media video on Monday evening shows flooded streets, […]
‘Silence of the Ecomodernists’ & ‘Fusion Confusion’
‘Silence of the Ecomodernists’ & ‘Fusion Confusion’
Finding a place to take a stand
Finding a place to take a stand Mapping regions bio and cultural David McCloskey’s recently completed mapping of regions around the Salish Sea. Regions in a time of breakdown The Raven is increasingly focusing on the concept of regionalism, the idea that, as urbanist Lewis Mumford put forward many years ago, there is a “regional framework […]
The Human Eco-predicament: Overshoot and the Population Conundrum
The Human Eco-predicament: Overshoot and the Population Conundrum This article was originally published by Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2023, Vol. 21, pp. 1–19 Abstract: The human enterprise is in overshoot, depleting essential ecosystems faster than they can regenerate and polluting the ecosphere beyond nature’s assimilative capacity. Overshoot is a meta-problem that is the cause […]
Satellite Images Reveal Beavers Are Transforming The Arctic “Like Wildfire”
Satellite Images Reveal Beavers Are Transforming The Arctic “Like Wildfire” (Dan Pepper/Getty Images) Beavers are taking over the Alaskan tundra, completely transforming its waterways, and accelerating climate change in the Arctic. The changes are so sudden and drastic that they’re clearly visible from space. As the Arctic tundra warms, woody plants are growing along its rivers and […]
How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat
How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat (Image credit: Nailia Schwarz/Alamy) Plastic pollution is one of the defining legacies of our modern way of life, but it is now so widespread it is even finding its way into fruit and vegetables as they grow. Microplastics have infiltrated every part of the planet. They have been […]
‘Pineapple Express’ And Bomb Cyclone To Wallop California
‘Pineapple Express’ And Bomb Cyclone To Wallop California A moisture conveyor belt of atmospheric rivers has unleashed near-record rainfall across the West Coast. Another, perhaps, more powerful atmospheric river and bomb cyclone are set to target California on Wednesday and Thursday, continuing ten days of heavy rains and snow for higher altitudes. The National Weather […]
How agriculture hastens species extinction
How agriculture hastens species extinction This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on something scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known species disappear. The last mass extinction was 66 million years ago, when an asteroid […]
China is destroying itself
China is destroying itself Preface. China has been destroying itself for many decades now. In Mao’s “great leap forward” about 35 to 50 million are estimated to have died from starvation from 1958 on, as you’ll read in my book review of” Shapiro J (2001) Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary […]
Nuclear Waste Disposal and Peak Oil
Nuclear Waste Disposal and Peak Oil Preface. One the greatest tragedies of energy decline will be the nuclear waste left to harm thousands of future generation for hundreds of thousands of years. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have the fossil fuels to do it. If we do […]
