Category Archives: Global warming

As Flood Risks Rise Across the US, It’s Time to Recognize the Limits of Levees

How levees become counterproductive as flood severity increases.

Waste Watch: Why Do We Discard So Many Edible Fish We Pull From the Sea?

New House of Lords report laments failure to slow discarding edible fish back into the sea; Australia also tosses much of its catch.

Climate Change Lawsuits Increase Globally

Climate change litigation is increasing globally from initial US origins. These legal actions will continue to grow as the crisis accelerates.

A World Without Ice

Looking at the impact of the loss of ice in nature.

‘Completely Terrifying’: Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event

Carbon levels could be approaching a threshold that could trigger ocean acidification similar to that which contributed to previous mass extinction events.

Martin Wolf v. Trumponomics Whiffs Due to Fealty to Orthodoxy

The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf has a go at Donald Trump, but manages to score an own goal as far as his profession is concerned.

Mining and Electric Vehicles: Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt

Electric vehicle production at scale requires materials we don’t have enough of.

Reforestation as a Solution for Carbon Capture: Hype and Reality

Advocates for reforestation must consider who owns the land to be reforested, and how the reforestation is to be done.

Philadelphia Explosion One in String of ‘Near Miss’ Accidents at Refineries Using Deadly Chemical

Accounts emerging from workers and others on site paint a troubling picture of how close to disaster Philadelphia may have come.

U.N. Report: ‘Human Rights Might Not Survive’ Climate Crisis

Not surprisingly, the poor, particularly in developing countries, will be devastated by climate change.

Climate Change is Devastating India With Heat Waves and Water Shortages

Climate disasters in India are fueled by its resource mismanagement and fossil fuel consumption policies, says political economist Shouvik Chakraborty.

Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?

As they so often do, by promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution.

Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been ‘A Disaster’ For Drillers, Investors

“Excluding capital, the big eight basin producers have destroyed on average 80 percent of the value of their companies since the beginning of the shale revolution,”