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The Top 5 Ways We Use Oil & Gas
The Top 5 Ways We Use Oil & Gas If climate change and the use of fossil fuels is starting to worry you, consider this: The lion’s share of the petroleum in the United States is being used just to get around–to get people and things from point A to point B. Industrial, residential, commercial […]
‘Factfulness’ may calm you down, but won’t change our ecocidal trajectory
‘Factfulness’ may calm you down, but won’t change our ecocidal trajectory Here and there people have been referring to author Hans Rosling’s idea of “factfulness” as an antidote to gloomy thinking about the trajectory of the human enterprise. Rosling writes: [T]he vast majority of the world’s population live somewhere in the middle of the income scale. Perhaps […]
Fires in Arctic Ice, Exposed on Mountains of the Heart
Fires in Arctic Ice, Exposed on Mountains of the Heart PR: Recently, the temperature in Paris rose to 108.7 F (42.6 C) surpassing the previous record by 4 F (2.2 C) set on July 28, 1947 of 104.7 F (40.4 C). Shortly thereafter, during an email exchange with an old friend, a prominent (if the […]
Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide and the Solar Minimum
Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide and the Solar Minimum Since Climate Change (CC) has been a constant of life on Gaia with the evolution of photosynthesis 3.2 billion years ago and has more complexities than this one essay can address; ergo, this article will explore co2’s historic contribution to global warming (GW) as well as explore the relationship […]
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming Photograph Source: Charles Marion Russell – Public Domain A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article’s premise of impending runaway global warming (“RGW”) is off the mark, by a lot. More to the […]
Climate Change was No Accident
Climate Change was No Accident Years ago, tobacco companies discovered the link between their products and lung cancer. Did they warn their customers? No — they denied the link entirely, misleading the public for decades while killing their customers. Similarly, ExxonMobil scientists made startlingly accurate predictionsabout climate change as early as 1982 — and then spent millions […]
UK climate emergency is official policy
UK climate emergency is official policy Heathrow’s expansion is now in question. Image: By J Patrick Fischer, via Wikimedia Commons Major changes in the government’s policy on fossil fuels will be vital to tackling the UK climate emergency that Parliament has recognised. LONDON, 3 May, 2019 − The United Kingdom has taken a potentially momentous policy decision: […]
Arctic Permafrost No Longer Freezes … Even in Winter
Arctic Permafrost No Longer Freezes … Even in Winter Global warming is starting to hit hard like there’s no tomorrow, and at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, there may not be a tomorrow, as emissions continue setting new records year-by-year, expected to hit a 62-year record in 2019. So much for the Paris […]
Yes, The Paris Climate Agreement Sucks
Yes, The Paris Climate Agreement Sucks Image Created by L.tak The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 was a big deal as 195 nations agreed to take steps to mitigate global temperatures to +2°C, but preferably +1.5°C, post-industrial or over the past 250 years. When temperatures exceed those levels, all hell breaks loose with our precious […]
World may hit 56m year carbon level by 2159
World may hit 56m year carbon level by 2159 Next stop the Pole? Crocodiles were once common in Arctic waters. Image: By Balaji Malliswamy on Unsplash Long ago the polar ice vanished and tropical animals swam the Arctic. Greenhouse gases could reach that 56m year carbon level again in 140 years. LONDON, 26 February, 2019 – Humankind could be about […]
Cities muscle up
Cities muscle up Action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and to tackle climate change can be organised more rapidly and have greater impact when it’s taken at the local level. Communities are urging their elected officials on municipal councils to introduce and implement measures to transition to renewable sources of energy, curb emissions of […]
Human carbon emissions to rise in 2019
Human carbon emissions to rise in 2019 Tropical forests continue to suffer devastation. Image: By ViniLowRaw on Unsplash Here comes another dismal science forecast, with human carbon emissions due to rise this year. Forests may be unable to keep pace as global warming increases. LONDON, 31 January, 2019 − Stand by for a year in which global warming can only […]
Rising Sea Levels – by How Much, and Why? A Current Commentary.
Rising Sea Levels – by How Much, and Why? A Current Commentary. The following was published in the journal Science Progress recently, of which I am an editor. Since this blog typically covers issues of environment and energy, I am including the present topic, which I hope will be of interest to its regular readers, […]
Carbon Crossroads: Can Germany Revive Its Stalled Energy Transition?
A wind turbine operating next to the Niederaussem coal-fired power plant near Bergheim, Germany. LUKAS SCHULZE/GETTY IMAGES Carbon Crossroads: Can Germany Revive Its Stalled Energy Transition? Although Germany has been a global leader in moving to decarbonize its massive economy, the country’s ambitious clean-energy transformation is faltering. Now, a broad spectrum of energy experts are […]
Is This The Answer To Global Warming?
Is This The Answer To Global Warming? In my previous article – Indisputable Facts On Climate Change – I addressed some of the things we know to be true as it relates to carbon dioxide and global temperatures. Note that I didn’t try to connect any number of potential threads, nor make dire predictions. My article was […]
