Category Archives: Global warming

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.

Italy’s Lurch to the Right Raises Risk of Fossil Gas Lock-In

After this weekend’s snap election, incumbent energy companies will face scant pressure over climate change from the winning right-wing coalition.

Truss’s Plan to Hike Defence Funding and Ignore the Climate Is a Disaster

How Liz Truss’ defense budget math does not work…or does really well if the point is to roll social support back to Victorian workhouses.

Congressional Sausagemaking, or How Inflation Reduction Became Fossil Fuel Export Promotion

How Manchin and Sinema got dirty energy goodies and financier breaks into the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Russian Situation Comedy Is No Lying Matter – The Joke Is on the Office of Foreign Assets Control

How Russian comedy producers and broadcasters are laughing their way to the bank thanks to Western sanctions.

How Biden Could Use the Tennessee Valley Authority to Address the Climate Crisis

One often overlooked area of authority is the federal government’s ability to use the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to pursue clean energy goals.

New Study More Than Triples Estimated Costs of Climate Change Damages

A new Nature study lends weight to the idea that federal agencies could be much more aggressive in regulating climate pollutants.

Tiny Algae Could Help Fix Concrete’s Dirty Little Climate Secret – 4 Innovative Ways to Clean Up This Notoriously Hard to Decarbonize Industry

Some possible ways to make concrete less of an environmental problem.

6 Economic Experts Reveal the Truth About the Inflation Reduction Act

Is the Inflation Reduction Act good for your wallet? A climate bill in disguise? Landmark action or nothingburger?

The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.

DeSmog has mapped the fossil fuel interests lobbying for gas-derived hydrogen and threatening to derail the momentum of green hydrogen.

Will Europe Go Down to Defeat Before Ukraine?

Europe has succeeded in hurting itself to hurt Russia, to the degree that a full bore economic and financial crisis seems inevitable.

If You Thought This Summer’s Heat Waves Were Bad, a New Study Has Some Disturbing News About Dangerous Heat

The big heat is set to become more pervasive. A look at projections on where and how bad how soon.

How Climate Change Spurs Megadroughts

Why megadroughts are becoming part of the new normal.