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...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...Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as well.
Read more...The climate/political nexus behind the latest California oil spill.
Read more...One of the common rhetorical tropes supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have used to sell it is to declaim all prior trade agreements as inferior, relative to this bright, shiny and new deal. Ron Wyden, the Democrat in Congress most responsible for moving TPP through, gave a particularly juicy example of this yesterday.
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...Why sustainability has failed and “resilience” is replacing it.
Read more...Just a week after having sent a Statement of Objections (SO) in the frame of the antitrust case against Google, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager sent yesterday an SO in the frame of the case against Gazprom. The decision to send a charge sheet against the Russian gas company came after almost three years of investigations, which have also seen EU antitrust officials raiding Gazprom offices in central and eastern European countries.
Read more...The Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources has improperly permitted as many as 2,500 injection wells in groundwater aquifers.
Read more...Who believes the Gulf of Maine is warming, and reasons to believe that it is.
Read more...Despite widespread environmental concerns and community opposition, in large swathes of the US, the fracking industrial complex has seemed unstoppable. That may finally be changing.
Read more...It’s one thing to suspect that evidence that fracking causes earthquakes is being suppressed. It’s quite another to be able to name the parties behind the cover up.
Read more...Royal Dutch Shell wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer and that could, in the long term, spell doom for one of the last great, relatively untouched oceanic environments on the planet.
Read more...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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