Trump EPA Pick: Scott Pruitt as EPA Head Signals Agency Will Ignore Climate Change
Nomination of Oklahoma State AG Scott Pruitt to head the EPA signals the intention to unwind Obama administration climate change policies.
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Donald Trump’s Swamp: Meet Ten Potential Energy and Climate Cabinet Picks and the Pickers
Link-rich summary of backgrounds, connections and biases of ten possible picks for Trump’s climate and energy team, collected in one post.
Read more...Perfect Hindsight: on Breder Suasso of NZ and elsewhere, Global Transaction Services, of Hong Kong, Georgia (US) and London, mBank and Pekao Bank SA of Poland, and Ceska Sporitelna AS of the Czech Republic
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Read more...Why Has Carbon Capture And Storage Not Taken Off Yet?
How the economics of carbon capture are impeding widespread adoption.
Read more...Worse Than Fossil Fuels? Why Bioenergy Is Not Green
Why bioenergy is much more costly in environmental terms than its boosters would have us believe.
Read more...Why Carbon Taxes Would Be the Ultimate Energy Game-Changer
Carbon taxes are one of the most effective ways to curb the use of fossil fuels and promote renewable energy sources. And they also help businesses because providing for a predictable price of carbon encourages investment. Has their time finally arrived?
Read more...Naomi Oreskes: The Hoax of Climate Change Denial
How climate change denialists have opened up a new front in their attacks on climate science.
Read more...Dubious FX Broker CWM FX Claims Sports Celebrity Scalps, but Princess Anne Remains Unmolested
The CWM FX fraud bust, a murder, Princess Anne and some groping. It’s BAU in the world of sports sponsorship.
Read more...Is Power8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, a Giant Ponzi?
Yves here. Richard Smith is on the trail of what looks to be his biggest international scam find ever, orders of magnitude larger than the usual below the radar single to low double digit million dollar/pound/euro operation that he has ferreted out in the past. And mind you, even though he focuses on the dubious looking inter-corporate relationships and the often evident lack of normal investors protections and business substance, these companies sell hope and glamour to typically credulous retail investors who lose their money and have no recourse.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren: Remarks on Citigroup and its Bailout Provision in the Cromnibus Bill
Elizabeth Warren to Citi: We “should have broken you into pieces.”
Read more...Climate Tipping Requires Precautionary Accumulation of Capital and an Additional Price for Carbon Emissions
Many ecological systems feature ‘tipping points’ at which small changes can have sudden, dramatic, and irreversible effects, and scientists worry that greenhouse gas emissions could trigger climate catastrophes. This column argues that this renders the marginal cost-benefit analysis usually employed in integrated assessment models inadequate. When potential tipping points are taken into account, the social cost of carbon more than triples – largely because carbon emissions increase the risk of catastrophe.
Read more...Wishful Thinking About Natural Gas: Why Fossil Fuels Can’t Solve the Problems Created by Fossil Fuels
Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that led to it. Yet this is precisely what we are now trying to do with climate change policy. The Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, many environmental groups, and the oil and gas industry all tell us that the way to solve the problem created by fossil fuels is with more fossils fuels. We can do this, they claim, by using more natural gas, which is touted as a “clean” fuel — even a “green” fuel.
Like most misleading arguments, this one starts from a kernel of truth.
Read more...Rent in a Warming World
What’s rent got to do with climate change? More than you might think.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Neoliberalism, “Just Desserts,” and the Post-Climate-Crisis Economy
Gaius examines the connections between neoliberalism and the convulsions that climate change will bring to the world.
Read more...How a British Carbon Credit Pusher Got a Listing on a Danish Stock Exchange, Brokered by a New Zealand Financial Company Run by an Australian Residing in Switzerland
How a British Carbon Credit Pusher Got a Listing on a Danish Stock Exchange, Brokered by a New Zealand Financial Company Run by an Australian Residing in Switzerland
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