With Congress Back to Work, Republican Attacks On EPA Resume
Fresh off the August recess, the United States Congress got back to business today.ย Rather than focusing on pressing issues like a potential war, looming budget deadlines, and the growing problem of student loan debt, some Republican lawmakers thought it was the perfect time to pick up where they left off before their recess โ […]
At the Limits of the Market Part 2: Why Capitalism Hasn't Solved Climate Change
Read At the Limits of the Market: Why Capitalism Won’t Solve Climate Change, Part 1. One answer to the question of why free market capitalism has failed to generate technological solutions to the crisis of climate change is that green innovation simply isnโt as profitable as speculation. In an era when financial markets generate record […]
At the Limits of the Market: Why Capitalism Won't Solve Climate Change, Part 1
One of the great mysteries of contemporary capitalism is the fact that as a system it appears absolutely incapable of responding to the crisis of climate change. Why canโt a system that made the automobile into an accessible mass consumer good provide us with clean and efficient mass transit, or at the very least electric […]
Monckton Challenged To Put Up Or Shut Up By John Abraham
See update below: Monckton responded (sort of) and Abraham has a new letter back. See below the original post. John Abraham, a Professor of Thermal Sciences at the University of St. Thomas and a Guardian Environment blogger, has challenged the loud-mouthed potty peer, Lord Christopher Monckton, to put his money where his mouth is. Abraham […]
New Report Finds Climate Can't Wait for More Delays on Aviation Industry Emissions Action
New scientific analysis released today on the impacts of the aviation industry on our climate should give pause to government and industryย leaders. The report, produced by the Manchester Metropolitan Universityโs Centre for Air Transport and Environment, titled โMitigating future aviation CO2 emissions โ timing is everythingโ finds that a new market-based carbon trading system for […]
Reuters Boss Accused Of Climate Scepticism Denies Agency Has Cut Climate Reporting
โAt Thomson Reuters, weโre in the business of turning change into opportunity,โ say the owners of one of the worldโs biggest and most influential newsย agencies. But the commitment of Reuters to reporting on arguably the most pressing issue in human history โ climate change โ is now beingย questioned. In January, after almost 20 years working […]
Official Price of the Enbridge Kalamazoo Spill, A Whopping $1,039,000,000
The largest onshore oil spill in US history – Enbridge’s ruptured Line 6B that released nearly 3 million liters of tar sands diluted bitumen into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan – finally has an official price tag: $1,039,000,000 USD. That’s according to newly disclosed figures released by Enbridge in a Revised Application […]
BP Launches Massive PR Campaign To Demonize Oil Spill Victims
BP, the oil giant that, along with Halliburton and Transocean, was responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, is crying foul in the claims process of settlements for the victims of the spill.ย The company has launched a massive public relations offensive to paint themselves […]
The Deadly Truth About Oil And Gas Industry Safety Standards
A new report delivers a dire warning to employees in the oil and gas industries: Your job could be the death of you.ย According to recently released statistics from 2012, on the job deaths in the oil and gas industries spiked by a staggering 23% last year, a larger increase than any other employment sector […]
Defamation By Internet? Part 1 – Murry Salby's Short-Lived Blog Storm
Climate anti-science adapted well to the Internet. A blog storm (in this case the โSalbyStormโ) can surge through well-linked blogs to spread misinformation or unsupported accusations.ย Some blogs act as tribal echo chambers where people reinforce others’ anger, in this case resembling a famed witch-burning scene, with Macquarie University as main, but not only,ย witch. As […]