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Health Departments Are On Climate Change’s Front Lines
HEALTH DEPARTMENTS ARE ON CLIMATE CHANGE’S FRONT LINES From extreme heat to mosquito-borne diseases, climate change is having a huge public health impact. Can health departments keep up? Photo © iStockphoto.com/Karl Spencer January 2, 2019 — When the rains of Hurricane Harvey finally dissipated in late summer 2017, the potential for health hazards lingered on. […]
Bad Money
Dreamstime Bad Money Our debt-based fiat money system poses an existential threat We’re all going to have to be a lot more resilient in the future. The “long emergency“, as James Howard Kunstler puts it, is now upon us. If ever there was a wake-up call from Mother Nature, it’s been the weather events over […]
The Spiraling Crisis of Puerto Rico
The Spiraling Crisis of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico’s infrastructure, which already faced severe pressures because of the U.S. territory’s huge debt and demands from its creditor, has now been devastated by Hurricane Maria, as Dennis J Bernstein reports. Though President Trump bragged about the relatively low death toll from Hurricane Maria — 16 at the […]
Galveston’s BioLab Amid Global Warming
Galveston’s BioLab Amid Global Warming Ken Kramer grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Houston. As a child he spent a lot of time on Galveston, an island about 50 miles away in the Gulf of Mexico. Kramer experienced Hurricane Carla in 1961 with gusts of 175 mph and a storm surge of 22 […]
Oil Prices Steady, But $80 Oil Is Coming, Says Analyst
Oil Prices Steady, But $80 Oil Is Coming, Says Analyst Oil prices were basically flat early on Wednesday, but $80 oil could be just around the corner, according to analyst Jodie Gunzberg, head of commodity and real asset indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices in a CNBC interview on Wednesday. While prices are holding just […]
Chaz Peling: Backup Power Solutions
Chaz Peling: Backup Power Solutions Be prepared if the lights suddenly go out Over the past month, the Americas have sustained extensive damage from 3 major Atlantic hurricanes and 2 major earthquakes in Mexico. In terms of destroyed houses and businesses, ruined cars, and lost lives, it has been an extremely costly couple of weeks. […]
You’re Likely A Lot Less Prepared For Crisis Than You Realize
rangizzz/Shutterstock You’re Likely A Lot Less Prepared For Crisis Than You Realize Lessons from the recent rash of natural disasters It seems as if Mother Nature is waking up. Either she’s trying to send humans an important warning, or perhaps she’s just out to kill us all. Massive storms across the globe, earthquakes, and collapsing ecosystems […]
In the Dark
In the Dark The stock market is zooming this morning on the news that only 5.7 million people in Florida will have to do without air conditioning, hot showers, and Keurig mochachinos at dawn’s early light Monday, Sept 11, 2017. I’m mindful that the news cycle right after a hurricane goes kind of blank for […]
Apocalyptic September? Here Is A List Of 27 Major Disasters That Have Already Happened So Far This Month
Apocalyptic September? Here Is A List Of 27 Major Disasters That Have Already Happened So Far This Month Two major hurricanes, unprecedented earthquake swarms and wildfires roaring out of control all over the northwest United States – what else will go wrong next? When I originally pointed to the month of September as a critical […]
Refiners Boost Output, But Irma Could Dent Demand
Refiners Boost Output, But Irma Could Dent Demand Texas continues to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and many of the disrupted refineries are ramping up production once again. But the ripple effects from the outages are still being felt, and some Midwestern refineries are benefitting from surging margins stemming from the havoc. Bakken Midwest refining margins […]
On Repairing/Rebuilding 100,000+ Damaged Houses
On Repairing/Rebuilding 100,000+ Damaged Houses Almost lost in all the dollar estimates of property damage is the human loss, suffering and stress. I am not an expert in repairing flood damage, or in dealing with insurance companies, FEMA or all the other pieces that will go into homeowners getting the funding needed to repair or […]
What Is Behind Surging Gas Prices?
What Is Behind Surging Gas Prices? As gas stations raise prices in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, there have been numerous accusations of price gouging. Especially on social media, some are quick to conclude price gouging if they see gasoline prices go up by 10 or 20 cents per gallon over the course of a […]
Hurricane Irma Is Being Called ‘A Lawnmower From The Sky’ And FEMA Warns It Will ‘Devastate’ The Southeast
Hurricane Irma Is Being Called ‘A Lawnmower From The Sky’ And FEMA Warns It Will ‘Devastate’ The Southeast It looks like Hurricane Irma is going to make landfall in south Florida on Sunday morning. Of course that could still change, but this is what the meteorologists are telling us at this point. But of course […]
From Homes to Refineries, Finding Pollution and Loss in Harvey’s Path
From Homes to Refineries, Finding Pollution and Loss in Harvey’s Path When Harvey’s rain, for the most part, stopped falling on August 30, I started making my way from Louisiana to Texas to document the pollution inevitably left in the storm’s path. That day I got as far as Vidor, a small town in southeast […]
Rig Count Slumps To 3-Month Lows As US Crude Production Collapses
Rig Count Slumps To 3-Month Lows As US Crude Production Collapses US crude production collapsed this week with most of Texas offline and we would expect rig counts to have continued to stabilize (if not fall) following the lagged track of WTI, and they did – oil rigs dropped 3 to 756, the lowest since […]
