Time to Stop Tiptoeing Around the United States on Climate Change
U.S. obduracy on climate change has ensured that the world today is in the danger zone and will go critical soon.
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Worse Than Fossil Fuels? Why Bioenergy Is Not Green
Why bioenergy is much more costly in environmental terms than its boosters would have us believe.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Should the US Federal Government Invest $4-$6 Trillion Per Year on Climate Protection? (Part 2 of 2)
Further discussion of why the excuses to do nothing or too little on the climate change front don’t hold up to serious scrutiny.
Read more...Gaius Publius: More Evidence We’ve Reached a “Peak Water” Tipping Point in California
How the California water crisis, and small temperature changes, can cross tipping points, that can be drivers of action-provoking awareness.
Read more...With Shell’s Failure, U.S. Arctic Drilling Is Dead
Shell has decided to abandon Arctic drilling based on poor exploration results and high costs.
Read more...A Progressive Pope or Greenwashing the Vatican?
Chris Hedges discusses whether the rhetoric coming from Pope Francis helps progressive forces in the world.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Will Senator Whitehouse Renew His Call for RICO Prosecution of Climate-Denying Companies like Exxon?
Did climate change denialists like Exxon coordinate their activities, as Big Tobacco did to foster doubt about smoking’s role in lung cancer? If so, what would it take for RICO prosecutions to occur?
Read more...VW Scandal Bad News For Diesel
The ramifications for the diesel industry as its reputation as cleaner fuel comes under scrutiny.
Read more...Gaius Publius: They Knew – Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago
Exxon knew as early as 1977 that earth’s climate was being seriously disrupted, and would continue to be disrupted, by carbon dioxide emissions. Yet in the 1980s they pivoted to financing an aggressive climate denial effort .
Read more...King Coal, Dethroned, and Its Aftermath
The history the coal industry is tragic and its collapse is its grim final act.
Read more...California First, As Both Climate Victim and Responder, the National Style-Setter Leads the Way
An old saying among trend-mavens is that as California goes, so goes the nation. That means its devastating drought is a real warning.
Read more...Climate Change: Have We Reached the Point of No Return?
This Real News Network segment provides a sobering assessment of the speed of climate change and species die-offs.
Read more...Why Carbon Taxes Would Be the Ultimate Energy Game-Changer
Carbon taxes are one of the most effective ways to curb the use of fossil fuels and promote renewable energy sources. And they also help businesses because providing for a predictable price of carbon encourages investment. Has their time finally arrived?
Read more...Paradise Burning: Why We All Need to Learn the World ‘Anthropogenic’
When fire can eat a rainforest in a relatively cool climate, you know the Earth is beginning to burn.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Climate Defeatism is as Much a Threat to Human Survival as Climate Denial – Part 1
Human beings face the choice whether to preserve parts of our present civilization or create elements of a new one or alternatively, head towards self-extinction.
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