Category Archives: Global warming

A Crisis Is Looming For The U.S. Energy Grid

The US plans to further stress its grid with electricity vehicle demands, with no plans for upgrades.

Drought in the United States: A Primer and Review of 2022 (with some Action Items)

Enough background information so that you, readers, can interpret the news on drought — especially in the Southwest — and apply your critical thinking skills

Arctic Report Card 2022: The Arctic Is Getting Rainier and Seasons Are Shifting, with Broad Disturbances for People, Ecosystems and Wildlife

An update on the impact of global warming in the Arctic.

A New Era for Germany’s Gas Industry Fuels Climate Fears

Moves to end energy dependence on Russia are a win for the gas lobby, locking Germany into the global market for liquefied natural gas.

Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

How the greenhouse gas emissions blame game pits advanced economies against developing ones.

Climate Remedy: State, Local Governments Increasingly Turn to Zoning Reforms

Better late than never: Authorities are starting to use zoning as a way to reduce fossill fuel use.

Europe’s Wind Energy Industry Has Hit A Rough Patch

Major wind turbine makers are reporting massive losses and laying off swaths of employees due to supply chain snarls and other missteps.

COP27’s Loss and Damage Deal Isn’t a Win. It Committed Us To Devastation

COP27 made no clear commitment to decarbonisation and stopping climate-change-induced loss and damage

With COP Gridlocked, Critics Blast ’27 Years of Obstructionism, Delay, and Greenwashing’

One activist on the COP’s underwhelming performance: “Once again we are seeing rich countries trying to evade their responsibility.”

You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

Nomi Prins warns that central banks’ strategies are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.

COP27 Fiddling as World Warms

COP27, the latest climate ‘blah-blah,’ began with rich nation backpedalling due to the NATO sanctions-induced energy crisis.

Global Energy Crisis Looms Over UN Climate Summit – While Some Countries Race to Renewables, Others Plan More Natural Gas Production, But It Comes With Risks

The war in Ukraine casts a shadow over this year’s United Nations climate summit where officials from around the world are discussing the costs of climate change and how to cut emissions that remain near record highs.

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?

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.