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“Potential Polar Vortex Event” Could Spark Bullish Reversal In NatGas
“Potential Polar Vortex Event” Could Spark Bullish Reversal In NatGas Since mid-October, U.S. natural gas futures have been beaten down 40% as the narrative of colder weather and tight supplies quickly flipped and crushed bullish traders. As the Northern Hemisphere winter is less than two weeks away, new weather models suggest “significantly colder” temperatures could return for […]
New Climate Study Predicting More Rain Than Snow in the Arctic ‘Rings Alarm Bells’
Icebergs are shown near Ilulissat, Greenland. (Photo: Ulrik Pedersen/NurPhoto via Getty Images) New Climate Study Predicting More Rain Than Snow in the Arctic ‘Rings Alarm Bells’ “There are huge ramifications of these changes,” said the lead researcher, “all of which have implications on wildlife populations and human livelihoods.” Research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests rainfall will […]
Let’s Talk About Agriculture
Let’s Talk About Agriculture An agricultural barn of the 1800’s located at Falls Mill, Belvidere, Tennessee Agriculture is a technology (like fire and the wheel) and a system of extracting minerals and nutrients from the soil through photosynthesis. The industrial method of agriculture adds the use of fossil fuels through the Haber-Bosch process for fertilizer, many different […]
Can Any Nation-State Survive the Era of Inequality and Scarcity?
Can Any Nation-State Survive the Era of Inequality and Scarcity? We have an extraordinary opportunity to transform our unsustainable “waste is growth” economy and toxic inequality to sustainable systems that optimize well-being rather than collapse. The possibility that the United States could fragment is no longer a marginalized topic. Maps displaying various post-U.S. regional configurations accompany […]
Caught Up in Complexity
Caught Up in Complexity From analogicus, via Pixabay Readers of this blog will know that I have come to some big-picture conclusions about success and failure that are unsettling. I don’t like them myself. Not only do they create an inner sadness about where I think the human endeavor is heading, but they result in a sort of isolation […]
Extreme weather and pandemic help drive global food prices to 46-year high
Extreme weather and pandemic help drive global food prices to 46-year high Current high food prices, combined with the ongoing pandemic, will make the global food supply highly vulnerable to extreme weather shocks in 2022. Aerial view of stranded barges along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, on August 30, 2021, in the wake of category […]
Systems: Overshoot and Collapse
Systems: Overshoot and Collapse
Climate tipping points: The Arctic is a Bellwether for Irreversible Change
Climate tipping points: The Arctic is a Bellwether for Irreversible Change “The Arctic is iconic for maintaining year-round ice and snow, but in the last decade, it has begun to transition to wetlands and open ocean. Emblematic of this change, in July 2020, the last intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic fell into the […]
California’s hydroelectric generation affected by historic drought
California’s hydroelectric generation affected by historic drought Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on U.S. Drought Monitor Most of the western United States is experiencing intense and historic drought conditions. California is one of the most severely affected states. As of June 22, 2021, 100% of the state is experiencing some degree of drought. About 33% of the […]
On Fossil Fuel Subsidies, the Facts Matter
On Fossil Fuel Subsidies, the Facts Matter The BC Green leader responds to the energy minister’s Tyee op-ed on provincial subsidies. LNG Canada’s marine terminal under construction. Photo via LNG Canada. In his Tyee op-ed on Monday titled “Let’s Talk Fossil Fuel Subsidies in BC,” Bruce Ralston, the provincial minister for energy, mines and low-carbon innovation, […]
Allison Cobb’s PLASTIC: An Autobiography
Allison Cobb’s PLASTIC: An Autobiography Nightboat Books, April 2021, 352 pages, paperback $17.95, Amazon Kindle $10.99) Early on in Plastic: An Autobiography, Allison Cobb recalls her fascination with a plastic-strewn Hawaiian beach. She and three others have arrived at Kamilo Beach–a site long overrun by debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch–after an arduous journey […]
Joseph Tainter on the Dynamics of the Collapse of Civilization
Joseph Tainter on the Dynamics of the Collapse of Civilization
With ‘jaw-dropping,’ ‘astounding’ and ‘extraordinary’ weather, Vancouver just had its rainiest fall ever
With ‘jaw-dropping,’ ‘astounding’ and ‘extraordinary’ weather, Vancouver just had its rainiest fall ever Weather bombs, seven atmospheric rivers in a month and a tornado, among other things, plus lots (and lots) of rain Rain drenched Vancouver this fall, smashing records in city and across the province.Brendan Kergin / Vancouver is Awesome The fall of 2021 […]
The Climate Crisis & More Propaganda
The Climate Crisis & More Propaganda QUESTION: How can you be against climate change when every world leader has been convinced and 97% of all scientists say you are wrong? JL ANSWER: Climate always changes and it has done so for millions of years without soccer moms driving the kids in SUVs. It is just propaganda. […]
How healthy is your soil?
How healthy is your soil? In celebration of World Soil Day, December 5, 2021, we want to help farmers around the world to better understand their soil. Our soils are an incredible resource – they have a remarkable ability to clean water and help mitigate climate change, they support biodiversity and are the reason we […]
