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Abrupt permafrost thaw found to intensify warming effects on soil CO₂ emission
Abrupt permafrost thaw found to intensify warming effects on soil CO₂ emission Thermokarst landscape on the Tibetan Plateau. Credit: Wang Guanqin According to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience, scientists have found that soil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are more sensitive to climate warming in permafrost-collapsed areas than in non-collapsed areas. This study, based on […]
Gates & Schwab Control Europe
Gates & Schwab Control Europe I have warned from the outset that the entire COVID Pandemic has been created. The idea of COVID Passports is to reduce travel to cut CO2. Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU, was also a board member of the World Economic Forum. So is the head of […]
Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other equally important existential issues
Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other equally important existential issues Preface. I’ve noticed that in the half dozen science magazines and several newspapers I get practically the only environmental stories are about climate change. Yet there are 8 other ecological boundaries (Rockström 2009) we must not cross (shown in bold with an […]
Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions are Fate
Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions are Fate Mill, Halsey, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I developed a model of Global Warming based on the anthropogenic perturbation of the Carbon Cycle. The essence of this model is a rate equation for the evolution of the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere. The interesting results from this model […]
Fossil-fueled industrial heat hard to impossible to replace with renewables
Fossil-fueled industrial heat hard to impossible to replace with renewables Preface. Cement, steel, glass, bricks, ceramics, chemicals, and much more depend on fossil-fueled high heat (up to 3200 F) to make. Except for the electric-arc furnace to recycle existing steel, there aren’t any renewable ways to make cement, other metals, and other high-heat products, and […]
Do the World’s Energy Policies Make Sense?
Do the World’s Energy Policies Make Sense? The world today has a myriad of energy policies. One of them seems to be to encourage renewables, especially wind and solar. Another seems to be to encourage electric cars. A third seems to be to try to move away from fossil fuels. Countries in Europe and elsewhere have […]
CO2 emissions: The trend is not your friend
CO2 emissions: The trend is not your friend When the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported in late March that energy consumption in 2018 rose at the fastest rate in a decade, it confirmed something that most of those who truly understand the climate crisis already know: Collectively, humanity is making almost no progress in doing anything significant […]
CO2 on Track for Largest Rise in 62 Years
CO2 on Track for Largest Rise in 62 Years Around the world, atypical climate change grows increasingly threatening to all life on the planet, principally because of excessive CO2 emissions. Paradoxically, this is happening on the heels of the Paris 2015 climate accord among nations of the world. But, didn’t almost all of the countries […]
The End of Illusion
The End of Illusion Photo Source Christopher Michel | CC BY 2.0 The following is the Epilogue from Jeffrey St. Clair’s and Joshua Frank’s new book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink, available now from CounterPunch Books. In the spring of 2017, the carbon dioxide readings at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai’i cracked […]
Inevitable De-Industrialisation of Europe
Inevitable De-Industrialisation of Europe EU ministers agreed to binding cuts in CO2 emissions of 35% by 2030. The German auto industry won’t be able to deliver. The Telegraph reports Berlin court orders German capital to ban most diesel vehicles on 11 major roads to counter pollution. Hamburg was first in May. Stuttgart, home of Mercedes […]
The impacts of electrification – the example of France
The impacts of electrification – the example of France A number of “100% renewable” studies foresee wholesale electrification as the best way to cut emissions. In this post I compare load curves from three European countries where electric heating is not widely used (Spain, Germany and Poland) with one where it is (France). The annual […]
California’s progress, or lack thereof, in cutting its emissions
California’s progress, or lack thereof, in cutting its emissions The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently published its 2018 inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to which the state achieved its goal of cutting GHG emissions below 1990 levels in 2016, four years in advance of the 2020 target date*. Gov. Jerry Brown claims […]
The BP 2018 Statistical Review, electricity and CO2 emissions
The BP 2018 Statistical Review, electricity and CO2 emissions The just-issued 2018 BP Statistical Review contains a number of variables that were not available in previous reports, in particular electricity generation from oil, gas and coal since 1985. Combining these variables with BP’s nuclear, hydro and renewables generation numbers and with BP’s CO2 emissions data […]
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet Humanity needs new tools to overcome the global crisis of collective insanity Published by INSURGE intelligence, a crowdfundedinvestigative journalism platform for people and planet. Support us to report where others fear to tread. The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. The ecological crisis, which […]
Energy Externalities Day 5: Wind Power
Energy Externalities Day 5: Wind Power It’s now day 5 of the Energy Externality Game and time to move onto the first of the new renewables, namely wind power. Loved by Green groups who see only reduced CO2 emissions, wind farms are hated by many others who see a blot on the landscape. Here at […]
