Category Archives: Environment

Government Surveillance at 2022 U.N. Climate Conference

Gambling in Casablanca! Spying in Sharm el-Sheikh, at the COP27 conference! Who’d have thunk it?

U.S. to Announce Plan for Private Companies to Fund International Renewable Energy Transition

Yet more proof that the US is far more inteested in green energy profiteering than doing the hard work to reduce the pace of climate change.

Limits to Growth: Inconvenient Truth of Our Times

Before the first UN environmental summit, The Limits to Growth showed Earth’s finite resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.

The Best Climate News You May Not Have Heard About

The Montreal Protocol — designed to save the ozone layer — is also averting other global warming/climate damage.

Climate Minister: Until People in Developed Nations Start Dying, Nothing Will Change

What level of climate pain will it take to stir advanced countries out of their complacency?

After Bolsonaro’s Failures, Why Was Brazil’s Election So Close?

Lula wins by a whisker, but the Bolsonao Christian Right remains a powerful threat.

Is The IEA Too Optimistic About The Energy Transition?

The IAE says the Ukraine War and the energy crisis are speeding up the global energy transition, but a closer look shows there are reasons to be doubtful.

Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Emerging Economy Victims of Climate Change

Climate equity is further complicating fossil fuel reduction plans, with poor countries arguing that the demands made for them are too high.

Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will

Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems

Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy…

Researcher Devlin Kuyek identifies greenwashing terms that confuse people and block real solutions to climate change.

Is Breaking Things the Best Way Forward for Climate Activists?

From SUVs to gas pipelines, sabotage is on the rise as the climate crisis deepens – but does it work?

600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now

Plastic damage to oceans is getting worse. But do we have adequate remedies, even if we had the will to implement them?

Bucking Convention to Track the Upside of Invasive Species

While the damage done by some invasives was clear, the notion that they were always an inherent threat to native ecosystems troubled some researchers.