Category Archives: Global warming

The Paris Agreement Set an Unrealistic Target for Global Warming. Now What?

Is the 2 degree global warming target unrealistic? What now follows?

Trump Drops Antitrust Probe of Four Automakers Which Adopted Tougher Cal Tailpipe Emissions Standards

Trump drops antitrust investigation of emissions agreeemt between four automakers and state of California.

EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas

With climate impacts comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study methane reductions emission, with implications for fracked gas US producers.

The Race For Arctic Oil Is Heating Up

Despite climate concerns and environmentalist backlash against exploration for oil and gas in pristine sensitive regions of the Arctic, companies continue to explore for hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic Circle, in Russia and Norway in particular.

Yet More Finance Profiteering: Green Bonds

Count on Wall Street to find a profit angle in actual or pending disaster. Green bonds are becoming a hot idea.

Climate Change Needs To Be on the Balance Sheet

Serious people are finally calling for serious climate change accounting.

Obama Helped Make Cars More Efficient, but Now They Spew Black Carbon

How regulations to tame cars’ emissions created a new problem.

How CEOs, Experts and Philosophers See the World’s Biggest Risks Differently

Trying to understand CEOs’ blinkered view of risks.

This Problem With Fracked Oil and Gas Wells Is Occurring ‘at an Alarming Rate’

Well casing failures are a growing problem for an industry chasing profitability by cutting corners for its shale gas fracking operations.

Local Climate Policy Run Amok, Bellingham Edition

Bellingham, Washington tries to take on climate change….and their well-intentioned plan misses an elephant in the room.

Wolf Richter: The Great American Shale Oil & Gas Bust: Fracking Gushes Bankruptcies, Defaulted Debt, and Worthless Shares

A surge in frcking bankruptcies is fueled by collapsing prices for oil and natural gas; no end to the pain is in sight.

Could Sleeper Trains Replace International Air Travel?

After years of decline, night train services are again expanding, in part to cater to passengers who try to avoid air travel for environmental reasons.

A European Green Deal Will Not Work Without Refocusing Productivity

A welfare-oriented European Green Deal needs to focus on resource and energy productivity, not raising labour productivity.