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Summer 2021 Hotter Than ‘Dust Bowl’ Of The 1930s, NOAA Says
Summer 2021 Hotter Than ‘Dust Bowl’ Of The 1930s, NOAA Says The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed in a new report that the average temperature during this summer for the contiguous U.S. was hotter than the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. The meteorological summer between June 1 to Sept. 1 averaged 74F for the U.S., or […]
Lake Mead â The Largest Reservoir in the United States â Drops to a Record Low
Lake Mead â The Largest Reservoir in the United States â Drops to a Record Low August 7, 2000 August 9, 2021 The reservoir stands at its lowest level since the 1930s. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States and part of a system that supplies water to at least 40 million […]
Everything is chemicals: the myth and fear of âchemical-freeâ gardening
Everything is chemicals: the myth and fear of âchemical-freeâ gardening âChemical-freeâ â a term Iâve seen several times attributed to many products, especially food and produce at farmers markets and even in gardening circles these days. This term is often misused to describe plants grown without the use of any pesticide, either conventional or organic. […]
Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5â°C world
Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5â°C world Abstract Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below 2â°C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5â°C relative to pre-industrial times1. However, fossil fuels continue to dominate the global energy system and a sharp decline in their use […]
Carbon Starvation â A Crisis Of Our Time?
Carbon Starvation â A Crisis Of Our Time? Are we beginning to see carbon â the fundamental building block of all life â as a pollutant? Instead of demonising carbon as a cause of climate breakdown, we need to restore balance in the natural carbon cycle that has been disrupted by the use of artificial […]
Standing Rock is Everywhere: The Indigenous Heart of the Climate Change Fight
Standing Rock is Everywhere: The Indigenous Heart of the Climate Change Fight This is a story of victory for the earth and of the end of the Keystone XL pipeline. It also involves the Dakota Access pipeline and the Standing Rock Lakota reservation, indeed the entire world, all of which is threatened by our desperate […]
The Nitrogen Bomb: fossil-fueled fertilizers keep billions of us alive
The Nitrogen Bomb: fossil-fueled fertilizers keep billions of us alive Preface. There are two articles below that explain why natural gas fertilizers are keeping at least 4 billion of us alive today. If youâre interested in this topic, here are a few more to read: Erisman JW, Sutton MA, Galloway J, et al (2008) How […]
EU To Propose Exempting “Green” Bonds From Deficit And Debt Limit Calculations
EU To Propose Exempting “Green” Bonds From Deficit And Debt Limit Calculations Yesterday, the ECB announced that in Q4, it would “modestly lower the pace of net asset purchases under the PEPP than in the previous two quarters” (even as Lagarde scrambled to convince markets not to call it tapering) with Reuters sources adding that “policymakers set a monthly target of between […]
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
Ida Hit Crushes Crude Output In Gulf Of Mexico, Ranked Worst In 16 Years
Ida Hit Crushes Crude Output In Gulf Of Mexico, Ranked Worst In 16 Years Hurricane Ida’s disruption to the U.S. offshore energy production in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst in 16 years. It has already stressed domestic and global supply chains, further testing the Federal Reserve’s “transitory” inflation narrative. Gulf Coast hurricanes usually cause minor […]
Xeriscape â landscaping whose time has come.
Xeriscape â landscaping whose time has come. With drought conditions or lower than average precipitation becoming more widespread across the country, itâs time to revisit the principles of xeriscape gardening. Letâs take a look at the âclassicâ principles and weâll update them, Garden Professor style. Note: If youâre growing food crops to supply your table […]
Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be Jedi Knights. Valiantly struggling to save the planet, wind and solar interests are thought to be locked in mortal combat with large fossil fuel corporations that continue to mine, […]
Itâs Time to Acknowledge the Spectacular Success of the IPCC.
Itâs Time to Acknowledge the Spectacular Success of the IPCC. âUS support was probably critical to IPCCâs establishment. And why did the US government support it? Assistant Undersecretary of State Bill Nitze wrote to me a few years later saying that our groupâs activities played a significant role. Among other motivations, the US government saw the […]
A Prayer for Nonbelievers
A Prayer for Nonbelievers I was ten years old when The Limits to Growth first saw print. I have a dim memory of seeing a newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things on my mind in 1972âmy parents got divorced that year, and an already difficult childhood promptly got much worseâand several years […]
The Myth of Climate Smart Agriculture â Why Less Bad Isnât Good
The Myth of Climate Smart Agriculture â Why Less Bad Isnât Good The âmodernâ intensive agricultural system does the climate more harm than good. Thatâs a fact, no matter how much Big Data or precision farming you throw at it. We need to look outside that system for solutions. In this excerpt from an evidence-based […]
