Category Archives: Global warming

Criminalizing Peaceful Pipeline Protests: Are Oil Billionaires Trying to Undermine Our First Amendment Rights?

RNN interview discussing oil funding of state measures to criminalize peaceful pipeline protest as ‘eco-terrorism’. Penalties up to 25 years in jail and $100 k in fines. Others to follow?

Puerto Rico Update: Forests, Power, Depopulation, and Privatization

Puerto Rico’s situation is causing Naomi Klein to rethink “shock doctrine.”

Trump’s Tariff Threat to Kick Off Trade War?

Trump is threatening to kick off a trade slugfest via tariffs on steel and aluminum. Will he follow through?

Melting Ice Could Release Hazardous Waste from Abandoned Cold War Site

Melting Greenland ice will release chemical and some radioactive nasties from an old US Cold War base. Expect more of this sort of thing.

Dire Consequences of Ignoring Trade in Climate Change Targets: On Track to 3.5 C Temperature Increase by 2100

Astonishingly, climate change accords like Kyoto and Paris ignore the impact of trade. That omission means our collective goose is cooked.

Exxon’s Conspiracy Charges Aim To Derail Climate Lawsuits

ExxonMobil is engaged in unprecedented efforts to sue and harass in court those are investigating and suing the company over global warming

Polar Ice Is Lost at Sea

An update on polar ice loss and its implications.

Trump Team to Rescind Methane Rule

The Trump team has moved to replace his predecessor’s methane rule– further dismantling the weak federal climate change regulatory edifice.

Gaius Publius: More on the Cape Town, South Africa, Water Crisis

Cape Town is becoming ground zero of water scarcity….a future that will arrive for many more in the coming decades.

Shareholder Proposals Target Climate Change Risk

Shareholders step up demands for companies disclose more information about the impact of climate change; these calls extend beyond energy companies.

The Age of Lunacy: The Doomsday Machine

The lunacy of current Trump foreign policy is not unprecedented. This RNN interview discusses similarly unhinged incidents from the 1950s and 1960s.

Gaius Publius: Do Mainstream Democrats Really Want to Eliminate Carbon Emissions and Fossil Fuel Use?

Following the money tells you how serious mainstream Democrats are about tackling climate change….not.

Gaius Publius: 2017 Breaks Climate Records Despite No “El Niño Boost”

Yet more sobering news on the climate change front.

Plastics Sicken Coral Reefs

Plastics pose another threat to the health of coral reefs, including a 20-fold rise in likelihood of disease for reefs draped in plastic.