Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Most Bleak Federal Report Yet on High-Tide/Sunny-Day Tide Floods

Tide floods on otherwise normal high tide days are yet another global warming warning sign.

Europe’s Gas Price Is Now Equivalent To $410 Per Barrel Of Oil

How LNG scarcity is playing into Europe’s gas woes, and other markets are set to feel the effects of the LNG price squeeze.

A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions

More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.

Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows

How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.

More US Eyepoking of China with New Congresscritter Visit to Taiwan; What Will China Do Next?

The US is still escalanting with China over Taiwan. And China most assuredly is keeping score.

Climate Bill Passes: It Could Short-Circuit EV Tax Credits, Making Qualifying for Them Nearly Impossible

Did Joe Manchin sneak an EV poison pill of sorts into the just-passed climate legislation?

The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming

Supporters of cutting carbon emissions to tackle global warming have long struggled against advocates of climate-change adaptation strategies

An Unjustified Fear of Nuclear Energy Is Holding the Industry Back

Why consumers might have to reconcile themselves to much disliked nuclear energy as less bad than other options.

America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population

American became an outlier among rich countries in mortality rates pre pandemic, and Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.

Memo to China: You Look Silly When You Threaten to Dump Treasuries

If China intends to cov the West, it needs to pick things it could do that would incur real damage. Selling Treasuries it not that.

The Supreme Court’s Own Goal on Climate Change

Why the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency looks more like hacker than jurisprudence.

Why Give a Damn About Pelosi? How About the Nuclear Strike We Would Have Made on China Over Formosa?

In 1958, the US considered a nuclear strike against China if China’s planned conquest of Formosa went well.

Endgame Taiwan? US Plans Further China Eyepoking with Planned Military Transit of the Taiwan Strait

China and the US are making threat displays over Taiwan. Lovely.

Inside the Democrats’ Climate Deal with the Devil

The new climate package furthers the US’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.

The Dying American Southwest

Will people abandon the American Southwest or fight like hell to keep it?