Category Archives: Global warming

Gaius Publius: Capitalism, Infinite Growth, Climate Change & Manufactured Hopelessness

Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.

The Climate Change Land Rush: When Will People Start Leaving Coastal Cities?

Most of the world’s biggest cities are coastal cities. What happens when people start realizing they are threatened?

California Rewrites the GOP’s Climate Playbook

Some California Republican legislators are breaking ranks and beginning to embrace modest pro-regulatory positions on climate change.

Climate Change Enabling US Military to Play Greatly Enlarged Domestic Role

Why climate change is great for the Pentagon’s budget and bad for Americans’ freedom.

What Hurricane Harvey Says About Risk, Climate, and Resilience

Only someone profoundly pessimistic would bet against the ability of American ingenuity to repower our economy.

Looming Gas Shortage: “Imports Can’t Make Up For This”

Hurricane Harvey has shut down the Colonial pipeline indefinitely; east coast consumers soon to see gasoline shortages that imports can’t fix.

Flood Protection: The US Should Go Dutch to Avoid Building Another Houston

Houston and US more generally should embrace a Dutch model of flood protection rather than focusing flood control efforts on post hoc clean-up.

G20 Climate Commitments and China’s One Belt One Road

A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.

Cobalt Production as the Hidden Choke Point on Mass Conversion to Electric Vehicles

Going from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles is likely to hit a cobalt road block.

Juliana v. United States and the Principle of Intergenerational Equity in Climate Change Law

The best shot at large-scale climate action under the Trump administration might lie with a lawsuit set to go to trial early next year.

Telling the Climate Truth

What must be done to alleviate the coming climate change catastrophe.

Plastic Free July: What YOU Can Do to Reduce Plastics Waste

With a world drowning in plastics, there are steps you can take to reduce your consumption of single-use plastics.