Category Archives: Global warming

COP27 Fiddling as World Warms

COP27, the latest climate ‘blah-blah,’ began with rich nation backpedalling due to the NATO sanctions-induced energy crisis.

Global Energy Crisis Looms Over UN Climate Summit – While Some Countries Race to Renewables, Others Plan More Natural Gas Production, But It Comes With Risks

The war in Ukraine casts a shadow over this year’s United Nations climate summit where officials from around the world are discussing the costs of climate change and how to cut emissions that remain near record highs.

Government Surveillance at 2022 U.N. Climate Conference

Gambling in Casablanca! Spying in Sharm el-Sheikh, at the COP27 conference! Who’d have thunk it?

Limits to Growth: Inconvenient Truth of Our Times

Before the first UN environmental summit, The Limits to Growth showed Earth’s finite resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.

The Best Climate News You May Not Have Heard About

The Montreal Protocol — designed to save the ozone layer — is also averting other global warming/climate damage.

Climate Minister: Until People in Developed Nations Start Dying, Nothing Will Change

What level of climate pain will it take to stir advanced countries out of their complacency?

Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Emerging Economy Victims of Climate Change

Climate equity is further complicating fossil fuel reduction plans, with poor countries arguing that the demands made for them are too high.

Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will

Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems

Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy…

Researcher Devlin Kuyek identifies greenwashing terms that confuse people and block real solutions to climate change.

Türkiye Resisting US Pressure Against Increasing Economic Ties to Russia

Türkiye is resisting US pressure on the most important anti-Russian measures. Will the US be smart enough to find and meet Türkiye’s price?

Is Breaking Things the Best Way Forward for Climate Activists?

From SUVs to gas pipelines, sabotage is on the rise as the climate crisis deepens – but does it work?

Big Agriculture Casts Itself as Climate Champion Ahead of COP27

Critics say the US-led Aim4C coalition will sideline nature-friendly farming in favour of polluting status quo agriculture.

Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?

Why, as they say in Maine, you can’t get get there from here as far as our green energy plans are concerned.

Hurricane Ian Capped Two Weeks of Extreme Storms: How Climate Change Fuels Tropical Cyclones

As hurricanes occur, we expect more of them to be major storms. Hurricane Ian and other recent storms, including the 2020 Atlantic season, provide a picture of what that can look like.