Category Archives: Global warming

Don’t Depend on Wall Street for Renewable Energy Investment

Why Big Finance is part of the energy problem, not the solution.

Peat: Superhero of the Biosphere, in Need of Global Protection (and Yours)

Drained peatlands and peat fires emit around 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land-use change and forestry, yet there seems to be little effort to prevent this.

“Super Emitters”: 1% of World’s Population Causes Half of Global Aircraft Emissions

COVID-19 provides a chance to reassess our relationship with flying, a major source of global emissions.

Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic

Absent immediate and drastic action to limit plastics use, global emissions will increase as incineration is used for waste disposal.

Plastic Watch: Plastic Pushers Seek to Use Trade Negotiations to Rescind Plastic Bans

Plastic pushers attempt to strongarm Kenya and the UK into using more plastic under the guise of free trade as world oil prices collapse.

Waste Watch: Right to Repair as Remedy for School Computer Shortage?

A right to repair can reduce the digital divide and mitigate global warming, by reducing energy costs of waste disposal and production.

Will There Be a Second Dust Bowl? And What Happened to the Topsoil From the First One?

A rise in airborne dust over the Great Plains has scientists worried, and rightly.

Waste Watch: New York Begins Enforcing Plastic Bag Ban

New York begins to enforce its ban on single-use plastic bags, delayed since March by the pandemic and various lawsuits.

Pandemic Causes Food Security to Wobble, While Much of Rural India Still Continues to be Underfed

The pandemic has caused global food security to wobble. Meanwhile, a recent paper shows most rural indians continue to be underfed.

With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-Billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public

Yet another example otf how the oil industry is subsidized, here by another way it dumps environmental costs on the public at large.

Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?

Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.

Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis

The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?

Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below

Two troubling recent studies clarify projections of glacial ice loss, sea-level rise, and the need to act on climate.

Top Law Firms Called Out for Serving Fossil Fuel Industry Clients in New Climate ‘Scorecard’

Law students call out leading law firms for facilitating policies that promote fossil fuel clients and exacerbate climate change.

The Problem With California’s Electric Dream

Even with a 15 year runway, California’s electric vehicle plans don’t look achievable.