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Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition
Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition Abstract Achieving the Paris Agreement will require massive deployment of low-carbon energy. However, constructing, operating, and maintaining a low-carbon energy system will itself require energy, with much of it derived from fossil fuels. This raises the concern that the transition may consume much of the […]
Rising CO2 is reducing nutritional value of food, impacting ecosystems
Rising CO2 is reducing nutritional value of food, impacting ecosystems Heightened atmospheric CO2 levels are cutting the proportions of protein and other vital nutrients in plants, impacting crops, people, pollinators and ecosystems. As CO2 levels rise, so do carbohydrates in plants, increasing food’s sugar content. While carbon-enriched plants grow bigger, scientists are finding that they […]
Exploring the Massive Clean Energy Boondoggle of Burning Trees as Carbon Neutral
Exploring the Massive Clean Energy Boondoggle of Burning Trees as Carbon Neutral To the shock of everyone with any semblance of common sense, we are clearcutting forests and burning the trees based on the idea the process is carbon neutral. Image from Smithsonian article below EPA Declared That Burning Wood Is Carbon Neutral In 2018, […]
Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’
Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’ Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says A firefighter sets fire to land in an attempt to prevent wildfires from spreading in Gironde, south-west France. A rise in global temperature of 1C to […]
Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green Sky”
Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green Sky” Preface. Thank goodness for world peak oil production in 2018. And peak coal in 2013. Since oil is that master resource that makes every product and activity possible, including oil itself and coal and natural gas, peak oil means peak everything. […]
Where We’ll End Up Living as the Planet Burns
Where We’ll End Up Living as the Planet Burns While nations rally to reduce their carbon emissions, and try to adapt at-risk places to hotter conditions, there is an elephant in the room: for large portions of the world, local conditions are becoming too extreme and there is no way to adapt. People will have to […]
Imperialism in bright green
Imperialism in bright green The human ability to disconnect from and deny geopolitical reality lies at the heart of the “green” net-zero project. Most obviously, those – like the current UK Prime Minister – who claim victories along the road to the Nirvana of net-zero must maintain blindness to the way in which the UK […]
Oilfield Approval Off Newfoundland Coast Would Undercut Climate Commitments, Harm Biodiversity, Experts Warn
Oilfield Approval Off Newfoundland Coast Would Undercut Climate Commitments, Harm Biodiversity, Experts Warn Berardo62/flickr Anxiety is running high in Newfoundland and Labrador as the province waits on a federal decision about a proposed offshore oil project about 500 kilometres east of St. John’s. Equinor’s Bay du Nord project would open a fifth oilfield for the […]
West accused of ‘climate hypocrisy’ as emissions dwarf those of poor countries
West accused of ‘climate hypocrisy’ as emissions dwarf those of poor countries Average Briton produces more carbon in two days than Congolese person does in entire year, study finds The Democratic Republic of Congo and London, UK. The Center for Global Development study highlights the energy inequality between rich and poor countries. Photograph: Getty/AFP In the […]
Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing
Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars. SHELL’S QUEST CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE FACILITY IN FORT SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA. THE CANADIAN PRESS/JASON FRANSON A first-of-its-kind “green” Shell facility in Alberta is emitting more […]
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth Rick Nease / The Detroit Free Press / MCT Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage […]
Cop-26–Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
COP26 – Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
CopOut26, B Grade Cabaret Not Science
CopOut26, B Grade Cabaret Not Science Mercifully, the charade known as Cop 26 has drawn to it’s ignominious end. Almost all commentators are describing this latest Cop as a near total failure. As I have mentioned previously in this space it’s a near total success. The USA created the IPCC to prevent activists scientists from holding […]
To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth
To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth Expectations for the 2021 COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage on the Glasgow conference’s next-to-last day. Nakate chided her audience […]
Net-Zero Policies: Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison gesture prior to a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 30, 2021. (Kirsty Wigglesworth- Pool/Getty Images) VIEWPOINTS Net-Zero Policies: Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich It is too often overlooked in all […]
