Category Archives: Global warming

Crypto Crackdown: Only the Beginning?

If you think the officialdom is getting tough with crypto, there’s even more they can do to tighten the screws.

Beavers, the Landscape, Carbon, Methane, and Climate Change

Beavers engineer the landscape to create carbon sinks and methane sources. What to do?

Who’s Making — and Funding — the World’s Plastic Trash?

Report by Ausralia-based Minderoo Foundation details who the plastic pushers are and who is funding their activities.

Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives

The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.

Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports

Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?

New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation

Exxon shifts focus to ‘risk’ and blame to consumers, following Big Tobacco’s playbook, abandoning outright demial of climate change.

Another Dangerous Fire Season is Looming in the Western U.S., and the Drought-Stricken Region is Headed for a Water Crisis

As drought persists throughout the Western United States, federal agencies predict a tough, long fire year lies ahead.

Why Biden’s Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicle Plans Won’t Avert Climate Crisis

Unfortunately, central Biden Administration climate change policies, like carbon taxes/pricing, fall well short of the level of action needed

Goodbye, Climate Deniers. Hello, Climate Bullshitters

Climate messaging has changed, but the willingness to take adequate measures has not.

Kelp, Trophic Cascades, and Climate

Wandering through the kelp forests (which turn out to be a carbon sequestration option).

Reducing Methane Is Crucial for Protecting Climate and Health, and It Can Pay for Itself – Yet Emissions Are Still Rising Fast, A New UN Report Warns

After a long period of fracking boosterism in the US, reducing methane emissions is finally getting the attention it warrants.

When Big Green Meets Big Money: The Nature Conservancy Caught Greenwashing Corporate Pollution

Green organizations are not created equal. Naming some of the leading greenwashers, starting with the Nature Conservancy.

Major Parties’ Climate Programs Are Miles Apart

As high as the stakes are, the struggle between the Dems and the GOP over climate change feels too much like intramural sport.