Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?

Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.

Andreas Malm Versus Property: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’

Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.

As Scientists Have Long Predicted, Warming Is Making Heatwaves More Deadly

Twenty years ago the IPCC warned of summer heatwave deaths in unprepared temperate regions like the Pacific Northwest.

Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices

Private equity is doing yet more damage to heath care as it buys up primary care practices en masse.

Financial Times: “Things Could Fall Apart for Biden”

Even Biden loyalists are getting nervous.

Reconstructing US-China Relations

Can the US and China be friends, or at least not so hostile? Jeffrey Sachs has some ideas.

The Delta Variant Thrives in a State of Political and Public Health Discord

More worries about Delta.

World’s Coral Scientists Warn Action is Needed Now to Save Even a Few Reefs from Climate Change

Coral reefs are the canary in the coal mine. The collapse of these ecosystems is the first unequivocally tied to climate change.

What’s in Wildfire Smoke? A Toxicologist Explains the Health Risks

An environmental toxicologist outlines steps to take to mitigate the effects of wildfire smoke.

Bad News About Iran and Nuclear Deal

Oof, Biden blows the chance to keep relations with Iran from moving further in the wrong direction by capitulating to his hardliners.

Industry Calls the Climate Shots in the Biden Administration

And you believed Biden on climate change?

America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?

America is finally out of one unwinnable war. How does this bode for the US extracting itself from other Middle Eastern quagmires?

‘Wake Up Call’: Rapidly Thawing Permafrost Threatens Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Thawing permafrost is undermining the supports that hold up an elevated section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, putting in danger the structural integrity of one of the world’s largest oil pipelines.

Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: When Innovation Fails, or Rather Works Too Well

The opioid crisis provides a deadly example of why innovation often is simply a new-fangled form of predation.