One-Third of Puerto Rico Won’t Have Christmas Tree Lights Because They Still Don’t Have Power
Lack of power in Puerto Rico, with ripple effects on the water supply, air pollution, and hospitals
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Gaius Publius: New Study Evaluates Climate Models — Best Ones Also Show the Most Global Warming
A new study of the performance models shows more convincingly than ever that we are cooking our collective goose.
Read more...Judge Sides with Big Oil in Maine Pipeline Case
Judge allows oil company challenge to city ordinance to proceed, to allow pipeline company in theory to transport Canadian tar sands oil.
Read more...The EPA Tries to Turn a Blind Eye to Carbon Emissions. The Courts Can Stop It.
Senator Whitehouse explains why the courts can challenge some of the breaks the EPA has given to global warming perps.
Read more...Three Surprises on Climate Change from Economist Michael Grubb
A tiny bit of good, or perhaps more accurately, less bad news on the climate change front.
Read more...More Climate Change Refugees Means More Walls
Yves here. We’ve pointed out that since the early 2000s, Defense Department analyses have been anticipating climate-change-induced mass migrations. As this post describes, they are happening at at an accelerating pace. By Todd Miller, who has written on border and immigration issues for the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and the NACLA Report on […]
Read more...Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future
The insane trajectory of the energy cost of bitcoin mining.
Read more...Will Ketchup Again Count as a Vegetable? USDA Delays School Lunch Rules
USDA delays compliance with some school lunch rules. Other steps needed to reduce food waste and provide healthier options.
Read more...Q & A: What Price Do We Put on Our Oceans?
Interview with Erik Solheim, on agenda for UN Environment Assembly, starting tomorrow, that will discuss measures to clean up the oceans.
Read more...Life After Coal
In Germany’s Appalachia, the last coal mine is closing.
Read more...Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why Burning of Fast Fashion Clothes to Fuel Power Plants is Troubling
Debunks recent news accounts touting fueling power plants with defective fast fashion rather than fossil fuels. Much more is required.
Read more...Bitcoin -> Energy Use -> Pollution
Bitcoin uses a computation system to prevent fraud, but computation takes energy, which damages the environment, all at an increasing rate.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Building Is Burning and All the World’s Babies Are In It — Using Force to Fight Climate Change
It’s going to take force to fight climate change and there’s little time to waste. Asking and negotiating won’t do the job.
Read more...Gaius Publius: In Surprise Move, Norway’s $1 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund May Divest From Fossil Fuels
Would a Norway sovereign wealth fund divestiture from fossil fuels be a tipping point among investors?
Read more...How Despair Helped Drive Trump to Victory
Trump did well in places that have borne the brunt of declines in manufacturing, mining, and related industries since the 1970s.
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