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...The history the coal industry is tragic and its collapse is its grim final act.
Read more...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...This Real News Network segment provides a sobering assessment of the speed of climate change and species die-offs.
Read more...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...When fire can eat a rainforest in a relatively cool climate, you know the Earth is beginning to burn.
Read more...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.
Read more...An economics professor rails against Pope Francis for daring to point out that we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds.
Read more...How climate change denialists have opened up a new front in their attacks on climate science.
Read more...Hoexter examines the disconnect between the preferred methods of climate activists versus the magnitude and urgency of the issues they are trying to address. His analysis echoes an important 2012 post by Richard Kline, Progressively Losing.
Read more...Le Monde published a defiant op ed by Alex Tsipras over the weekend. The wee problem is that Greece is well past the point where political appeals will work.
Read more...The climate/political nexus behind the latest California oil spill.
Read more...I suspect readers will draw suitably concerned environmental conclusions from this forecast, that the oil era has at least another 30 years to run.
Read more...Systems theorists, who study how organizations and systems change, offer some insight into farmers’ minimal recognition of climate change, and their lack of advocacy for climate-mitigation policy. Management scholar Connie Gersick describes systems—such as the farming sector—as being in equilibrium until fundamental factors change.
Read more...Who believes the Gulf of Maine is warming, and reasons to believe that it is.
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