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
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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.
Read more...Dodgy Demand Data? The Oil Price Collapse Conspiracy
John here. Environmental concerns and tighter regulations reduced investment in refineries. Tight refining capacity then drove the high crack spreads, but they have recently. This long-term strategy to reduce the use of fossil fuels by raising prices is achieving its goal, but at the predictable cost of people using less fuel. Gas stations, largely independent […]
Read more...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.
Read more...Inside the Democrats’ Climate Deal with the Devil
The new climate package furthers the US’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.
Read more...The Dying American Southwest
Will people abandon the American Southwest or fight like hell to keep it?
Read more...German Chancellor: Germany Could Keep Nuclear Power Plants Operating After All
A sign of German energy tsuris: Chancellor Scholz suggests reviving nuclear power, in opposition to earlier recommendations by key ministries.
Read more...Murky World of Carbon Offsets Faces Greater Scrutiny
Draft standards drawn up by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market aim to tighten up a notoriously opaque sector.
Read more...Robert Smithson, Creator of “Spiral Jetty” and the Artist for the Jackpot?
A perambulation through the works of “land artist” Robert Smithson.
Read more...The Future of Global Catastrophic Risk Events from Climate Change
U.N.: Climate change is causing extreme events that can kill > 10 million or lead to > $10 trillion in damages, threatening societal collapse
Read more...Biden’s Climate Emergency: Will He Declare It?
Biden has put the idea of using the National Emergency Act to declare a climate emergency in play. What are its odds of happening?
Read more...How Sustainable Manufacturing Could Help Reduce the Environmental Impact of Industry
A short overview of sustainable manufacturing, an idea whose time ought to have come.
Read more...In Agriculture, a Perennial Problem with Grains
Some researchers say Kernza will make the food system more sustainable; others doubt it will ever produce enough grain.
Read more...The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it
John Bellamy Foster explains the plans to create assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons.
Read more...Climate Protestors Stop Stage 10 of the Tour de France
Climate protests stopped Stage 10 of the Tour de France briefly on Tuesday. The race continued, but a worldwide audience heard their message.
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