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The Coming Climate Crisis Shakedown in Scotland
The Coming Climate Crisis Shakedown in Scotland In 2016, an inconceivable event aborted the Paris climate scheme. The Americans elected Donald Trump. Calling the Paris deal a rip-off of his country, Trump swiftly pulled the U.S. out of the accords. Upon what grounds? Put simply, America First. “Follow the money!” The old maxim is […]
Jevon’s Paradox: Why increasing energy efficiency will accelerate global climate change
Jevon’s Paradox: Why increasing energy efficiency will accelerate global climate change
Dying crops, spiking energy bills, showers once a week. In South America, the climate future has arrived.
Dying crops, spiking energy bills, showers once a week. In South America, the climate future has arrived. An aerial view of the drying bed of the Paraná River in August as the water reached a historic low near Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images) BUENOS AIRES — Sergio Koci’s sunflower farm in […]
Rex Weyler: Why is the political process so slow to respond to our ecological crisis?
Rex Weyler: Why is the political process so slow to respond to our ecological crisis? Preface. Rex Weyler is one of the co-founders of Greenpeace in Canada, a brilliant ecologist and journalist, and more. His blog is here: https://www.rexweyler.ca/greenpeace *** Rex Wyler. September 2021. Ecological crisis: Might as well speak the truth Why is the political process […]
WMO horror stories
WMO horror stories If you’re a fan of horror stories, the World Meteorological Organisation is not the first place you might think of checking out. But believe me, it is publishing some terrifying stuff. Every year the WMO publishes a report called “Statement on the State of the Global Climate”. These reports are quite different […]
Richard Heinberg explores the flawed thinking behind proposed solutions to climate change
Richard Heinberg explores the flawed thinking behind proposed solutions to climate change He explains why real climate progress will require large numbers of people in wealthy countries to forgo forms of power they currently enjoy. — ***** “power — the ability to do something, the ability to get someone else to do something, or the ability […]
Talkin’ About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Talkin’ About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The fact that our world is hurtling toward man-made obliteration on multiple fronts should probably occupy more of our conversational bandwidth than it does. ❖ My basic overall position is that humanity is about to end […]
A far from perfect storm
A far from perfect storm Global warming may yet prove to be the one thing which saves us from our largely misguided attempts to respond to global warming. This is because, while the crisis is real enough, the solution that we have bought into is an absolute stinker. While a great deal of corporate profit […]
Time’s Up
Time’s Up IT’S THE END OF WORLD, AND WE KNOW IT. Derek Carlisle _____ Picture six friends chatting about the environment. “There’s no such thing as global warming,” the first says. “Climate change is fake news.” “No, the planet is warming,” says another, “but in a gradual, natural cycle that’s repeated itself throughout Earth’s history. Higher temperatures […]
Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world
Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world Abstract Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C relative to pre-industrial times1. However, fossil fuels continue to dominate the global energy system and a sharp decline in their use […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Myth of Climate Smart Agriculture – Why Less Bad Isn’t Good
The Myth of Climate Smart Agriculture – Why Less Bad Isn’t Good The “modern” intensive agricultural system does the climate more harm than good. That’s 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 […]
Tao of Degrowth
Tao of Degrowth I am a degrowther and a doomer but this is not what your first reaction indicates. We are taught to be optimistic and so forth. People loath pessimist and doomers. People tire of people who cry wolf constantly. This is what the doom movement has done for decades now. There is some […]
Study Bolsters Case That Climate Change Is Driving Many California Wildfires
Study Bolsters Case That Climate Change Is Driving Many California Wildfires Link Seen to Fivefold Jump in Area Burned Against a backdrop of long-term rises in temperature in recent decades, California has seen ever higher spikes in seasonal wildfires, and, in the last two years, a string of disastrous, record-setting blazes. This has led scientists, politicians […]
