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The Middle East Could Face A Historic Crisis By Century’s End
The Middle East Could Face A Historic Crisis By Century’s End Regarding the Middle East and its oil, the late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saed Al Maktoum, longtime Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, once famously remarked: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my […]
Political Climate Shifting Against The Oil And Gas Industry
Political Climate Shifting Against The Oil And Gas Industry Oil and gas companies have had a tough time over the past year trying to weather the storm of falling oil prices. But the political and financial winds are moving in the wrong direction for the industry, raising more “above ground” problems at a time that […]
Fossil Fuel Companies Dominate EU Meetings on Climate and Energy Policy, Report Shows
Fossil Fuel Companies Dominate EU Meetings on Climate and Energy Policy, Report Shows Big energy and fossil fuel companies are enjoying privileged access to the EU’s top climate policy decision makers in the run-up to December’s Paris climate conference a new report reveals. The report by transparency research and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) […]
What’s Really At Stake At The Paris Climate Conference
What’s Really At Stake At The Paris Climate Conference At the end of November, delegations from nearly 200 countries will convene in Paris for what is billed as the most important climate meeting ever held. Officially known as the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the 1992 treaty that […]
Oil and Gas Industry Publicly Supports Climate Action While Secretly Subverting Process, New Analysis Shows
Oil and Gas Industry Publicly Supports Climate Action While Secretly Subverting Process, New Analysis Shows A new report recently released by InfluenceMap shows a number of oil and gas companies publicly throwing their support behind climate initiatives are simultaneously obstructing those same efforts through lobbying activities. The report, Big Oil and the Obstruction of Climate Regulations, comes on the […]
What does Climate Change Look Like?
What does Climate Change Look Like? “Our goal is not to amass information or satisfy curiosity, but rather to become painfully aware, to dare turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it” –Pope Francis Several weeks ago, I […]
Exxon: We knew climate change was a real threat (but we didn’t want you to)
Exxon: We knew climate change was a real threat (but we didn’t want you to) One of the big complaints about climate change deniers is that they don’t fund any genuine primary scientific research into climate change. We are used to deniers extracting out-of-context passages from existing legitimate climate research and pretending those passages support […]
Imagine If Exxon Had Told the Truth on Climate Change
Imagine If Exxon Had Told the Truth on Climate Change Like all proper scandals, the #Exxonknew revelations have begun to spin off new dramas and lines of inquiry. Presidential candidates have begun to call for Department of Justice investigations, and company spokesmen have begun to dig themselves deeper into the inevitable holes as they try to excuse the inexcusable. […]
Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor
Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor The climate talks in Paris in December this year are viewed as a last chance for the world’s governments to commit to binding targets that might halt our march towards catastrophe. But in the countdown to Paris, many of these same governments have signed or are pushing […]
Canadian Election: A Study in Values
Canadian Election: A Study in Values Those who work on climate change were both chuffed and chagrined by its role in Canada’s federal election campaign, which peaked last week with the victory of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and defeat of Conservative incumbent Stephen Harper. “The environment” – a catch-all concept that often encompasses concern about […]
Soaring heat and humidity pose deadly threat
Soaring heat and humidity pose deadly threat Working outdoors in places such as Dubai could become seriously life threatening. Image: Carter S’ via Flickr Parts of the Arabian Gulf region – prime source of the oil that helps fuel climate change – are most at risk of becoming uninhabitable for humans unless global warming is tackled. A […]
The Patience of the Sea
The Patience of the Sea I’ve commented here more than once that these essays draw their inspiration from quite a variety of sources. This week’s post is no exception to that rule. What kickstarted the train of thought that brought it into being was a walk along the seashore last weekend at Ocean City, Maryland, […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part IV
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part IV In the previous parts of this series, we started picking away at a very big subject: what a successful strategy for bringing about rapid social change would look like, such social change being necessary if we were to avoid the worst ravages of catastrophic climate change. This change must introduce […]
Worries Build Among Investors Over Oil and Gas Industry’s Exposure to Water and Climate Risks
Worries Build Among Investors Over Oil and Gas Industry’s Exposure to Water and Climate Risks When it comes to financial risks surrounding water, there is one industry that, according to a new report, is both among the most exposed to these risks and the least transparent to investors about them: the oil and gas industry. This […]
