King Coal, Dethroned, and Its Aftermath
The history the coal industry is tragic and its collapse is its grim final act.
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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.
Read more...Bill Black: A Harvard Don is Enraged that Pope Francis is “Opposed to the World Economic Order”
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...Naomi Oreskes: The Hoax of Climate Change Denial
How climate change denialists have opened up a new front in their attacks on climate science.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: The Climate (and Climate Justice!) Movement Cannot Remain a Genteel Environmentalist Movement
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...Greece’s Shortening Negotiating Runway and Possibly Erroneous Assumptions
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...Gaius Publius: The Constant Cost of Carbon — Another California Oil Spill
The climate/political nexus behind the latest California oil spill.
Read more...How Much Longer Can The Oil Age Last?
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...Maine Farmers and Climate Change, Part II
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...The Gulf of Maine: Poster Child for Global Weirding?
Who believes the Gulf of Maine is warming, and reasons to believe that it is.
Read more...The Cost of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change
The cost of delaying climate action has been studied extensively. A one-decade delay in addressing climate change would lead to about a 40% increase in the net present value cost of addressing climate change.
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