Trump’s nominees are backed by major players in the world of climate obstruction – from Project 2025 and Koch network fixtures to oil-soaked Christian nationalists.
Read more...Is Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican party part of a political realignment, or just jousting among plutocrats?
Read more...Some Net Zero hopium. Reader evaluations encouraged.
Read more...RAND proposes familiar blunders to deal with rival powers’ partnership — one that Washington helped instigate.
Read more...How continued political instability in France threatens European energy supplies.
Read more...The International Energy Agency forecasts that data center demand for energy will more than double by 2026, with AI the big driver.
Read more...NATO messaging about “helping” Ukraine is become even more divorced from reality.
Read more...Core services inflation is the biggie and going the wrong way. The Fed is already talking down the pace of rate cuts.
Read more...Small decentralized desalination plants hold the promise of low enough cost to use on brackish agricultural water.
Read more...COP29 summit proves change won’t come until floods and wildfires are killing tens of thousands in rich Global North cities
Read more...Data centers are an obstacle that torpedoes the whole idea of a transition offensive against hydrocarbons.
Read more...Critics of the “COP of false solutions” said that instead of much-needed funding, developing nations got “a global Ponzi scheme that the private equity vultures and public relations people will now exploit.”
Read more...An in-depth look at Iran’s economic and political situation suggests that Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign will not have much impact.
Read more...Trump plans tougher sanctions on Iran’s and Venezuela’s oil exports, and secondary sanctions on China. How might that work?
Read more...One of Trump’ inflation-cutting plans, more shale production to lower energy prices, is not going to get strong uptake from the industry.
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