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The New Politics of Climate Change

October 19, 2018

The New Politics of Climate Change As climate change accelerates, the political environment will start to boil. It’s happening already. More and more ordinary people are beginning to connect the dots between extreme weather, rising climate related death tolls, collapsing ecosystems, refugee/resource crises, and other grave anomalies. The political outcome of all this will either […]

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The next financial crash is imminent, and China’s resource crisis could be the trigger

September 13, 2018

The next financial crash is imminent, and China’s resource crisis could be the trigger Over three decades, the value of energy China extracts from its domestic oil, gas and coal supplies has plummeted by half Source: naturepost China’s economic slowdown could be a key trigger of the coming global financial crisis, but one of its core drivers — China’s […]

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What were the real origins of the great oil crisis of the 1970s? Politics or depletion?

November 10, 2015

What were the real origins of the great oil crisis of the 1970s? Politics or depletion? If you happen to be caught in a boat in a major storm, such as in this image by Hokusai, you’ll surely think you experiencing a major shock. However, it is also true that no storm changes the average […]

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Ten years that changed everything; and prevented all change

November 2, 2015

Ten years that changed everything; and prevented all change We are one month away from the COP-21, in Paris, that should change everything – and will probably change nothing relevant. But change does occur, even though in ways that often surprise us, and in ways we may not like to see. The past decade has been […]

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When conspiracy is not a theory: an example of a false flag operation in the Italian invasion of Greece in 1940

October 30, 2015

When conspiracy is not a theory: an example of a false flag operation in the Italian invasion of Greece in 1940 The Italian attack against Greece, that started in October of 1940, was one of the greatest military blunders of history and it may be argued that it cost the axis powers the whole […]

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Tertullian was a conspiracy theorist: propaganda and irrationalism in Roman times and in ours

October 27, 2015

Tertullian was a conspiracy theorist: propaganda and irrationalism in Roman times and in ours The Romans knew well the dark art that we call “propaganda” today. As an example, this image, from the Trajan column in Rome, shows Dacian women torturing naked Roman prisoners; it was part of the demonization of the enemy during the Dacian […]

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The Club of Rome, almost half a century later

October 20, 2015

The Club of Rome, almost half a century later The Club of Rome held its general assembly in Winterthur, Switzerland, on Oct 16-17 2015. In the image, you can see Ugo Bardi (center) together with the co-presidents of the Club, Anders Wijkman (right in the photo) and Ernst Von Weizsacker (left in the photo). Almost half […]

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“Peak Oil will save us from Climate Change:” a meme that never went viral

October 13, 2015

“Peak Oil will save us from Climate Change:” a meme that never went viral Image from “Peaksurfer“ The idea that peak oil will save us from climate change has been occasionally popping up in the debate, but it never really gained traction for a number of good reasons. One is that, in many cases, the […]

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Unstable world: Is it time to buy volatility?

October 12, 2015

Unstable world: Is it time to buy volatility? On Wall Street buying options–options on stocks, on commodities, on currencies, on almost anything–has been seen as a sucker’s bet (unless you are doing it to hedge an existing investment). For the uninitiated, options are the right to buy or to sell something–practically anything really–at a set […]

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A distant mirror: bimillenary of Germanicus’ campaigns in Germania

October 5, 2015

A distant mirror: bimillenary of Germanicus’ campaigns in Germania (Image: a battle scene showing Roman troops fighting Barbarians. This relief is much later than the times discussed in this post, but it gives some idea of how these battles were seen in Roman times: “Grande Ludovisi Altemps Inv8574” by Unknown – Jastrow (2006). Licensed under Public […]

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Climate Change: a clash of epistemologies

October 2, 2015

Climate Change: a clash of epistemologies In a post published earlier this year, Ugo Bardi explains that the debate on climate change is going nowhere due to a fundamental incommunicability – or a ‘clash’ as he calls it – between different types of epistemologies over climate change. In his post he refers to some exchange […]

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Stewards of the earth: a role for humankind

September 29, 2015

Stewards of the earth: a role for humankind Image from GreenGrenwich.org This post was inspired by a meeting held last week in Florence on the subject of the Pope’s climate encyclical, and, in particular, by the presentation given there by Father Bernardo. prior of the San Miniato church. I had been thinking about the relation of religion […]

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The Volkswagen scandal: say goodbye to the internal combustion engine!

September 23, 2015

The Volkswagen scandal: say goodbye to the internal combustion engine! By now, I guess that everyone in the world has heard of how Volkswagen cheated consumers by falsifying the results of the emission tests from their diesel engines. It is a true witch hunt unleashed against Volkswagen. Maybe there are good reasons for it, but I think […]

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What happened to peak oil? The cycle of a meme and of its antimemes

September 21, 2015

What happened to peak oil? The cycle of a meme and of its antimemes The result of a Google Trends search for the term “Peak Oil”. The fading out of the concept may be due not so much to reasons related to the validity (or non validity) of the concept but, rather, to a memetic phenomenon equivalent […]

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Global warming: how much heat, exactly?

September 7, 2015

Global warming: how much heat, exactly? It is often difficult to visualize what we are doing to our planet. But a simple calculation shows that the greenhouse effect generated by fossil fuels can be seen as the equivalent of turning on more than a hundred 1 kW electric heaters for each human being on the […]

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