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The Real Crisis For Oil Is Yet To Come
The Real Crisis For Oil Is Yet To Come Italian energy major, Eni, described 2020 as a “year of war”, regarding the energy crisis experienced in the face of a global pandemic. But it may be too soon to see the issues faced last year as a thing of the past. Eni is committing to lower the […]
Overpopulation and Climate Change: A Seat At the Table
Overpopulation and Climate Change: A Seat At the Table
The Arctic Is Melting
The Arctic Is Melting EARTH is down with a fever. Even the polar ice has vanished. Reports The Washington Post: The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface. Expeditions have sailed as far as 81 degrees […]
Is Society Collapsing?
Is Society Collapsing? Abandoned passenger train car, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by modern […]
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. “Like a pandemic, climate change is […]
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time?
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time? The Earth is not dying. Gaia is not changing. Gi is responding. So often we hear the phrase ‘save the world’ or the ‘save our planet.’ We may even use it. But sometime back in my career someone wise corrected that, explaining that […]
Why the Climate Change Committee have got it wrong on land, food and farming
Why the Climate Change Committee have got it wrong on land, food and farming Last week I spent what I must admit to have been two rather depressing sessions participating in a zoom conference convened by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in order to share their vision and strategy for reaching net zero emissions by 2050, with a particular […]
Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction
Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction “Earth abides.” – Toilet stall graffiti, West Bank I reckon, after all is said and said about the man, he’ll end up being considered the closest we modern political movement types have had to a real life Socrates. In more recent photos, Noam Chomsky, with […]
UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’
UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’ The recent net-zero pledges by major emitting countries and the potential for a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic “presents the opening” for the world to close the growing “gap” between existing commitments and what is needed to limit global warming to meet the […]
NET ZERO — Everyone, from countries to companies, is talking about it – But what does it really mean?
NET ZERO — Everyone, from countries to companies, is talking about it – But what does it really mean? BEWARE — Turns out that not all Net Zeros are created equal – Some are “greenwashing” with big loopholes to slip through. — ClimateAdam “You see, everyone from countries to companies are announcing their net zero targets. […]
How Rethinking Affordable Homes Connects with the Climate Fight
How Rethinking Affordable Homes Connects with the Climate Fight First in a five-part series exploring the case for a Green New Deal for Housing. Experts in Canada and beyond see overlapping solutions to two crises: housing affordability and climate change. This series talks to more than 20 of them. Illustration for The Tyee by Nora Kelly. Earlier […]
Greenwash
Greenwash An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago, USA [Richard Hurd, Flickr CC BY 2.0] The harm caused by the climate crisis has become undeniable – and terrifying. The floods, storms and raging fires, and the death and displacement they bring, have contributed to a global upwelling of concern and demands on governments to […]
Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out
Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Photograph Source: Alexander Savin – CC BY 2.0 Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion/XR recently interviewed Peter Carter, M.D., who has the distinguished title – Expert IPCC Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The interview was conducted to get to the bottom of what […]
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. “Like a pandemic, climate change is […]
Greenland’s largest glaciers nearing rates of melt expected in ‘worst-case scenario’
Greenland’s largest glaciers nearing rates of melt expected in ‘worst-case scenario’ Greenland’s three biggest glaciers added the equivalent of around 8mm to global sea levels from 1880 to 2012, study says Photo of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of Greenland’s largest glaciers (Shfaqat Abbas Khan, DTU Space Denmark) Greenland’s largest glaciers are currently melting at levels close to what […]
