Impoverished Nations To Suffer More As Climate Change Worsens
For most Western societies, climate change has largely been an โout of sight, out of mindโ issue. Even the disasters that we have seen in America โ more extreme droughts, floods, hurricanes, etc. โ have not been enough to spark meaningful action from the government. But for people in developing parts of the world, the […]
Fiery Saskatchewan Train Derailment Raises Fresh Questions About Oil-By-Rail Safety
A fiery CN train derailment in rural Saskatchewan has many people asking what could have happened if the accident occurred in a more populatedย area. The 100-car freight train derailed Tuesday about 190 kilometres east of Saskatoon. Twenty-six cars left the track, including six carrying dangerous goods. Two cars containing petroleum distillate caught fire, sending 30-metre […]
GWPF Funder Lord Leach – Relying on Unreliable Global Warming Information
DeSmog UK has found that libertarian banker Lord Leach is a funder of the anti-climate political advocacy group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Lord Leach gave a long speech in Parliament detailing his beliefs about global warming, writes Dana Nuccitelli (pictured).ย The speech was full of inaccuracies, myths, and misinformation. Known as a Gish […]
Experts Are "Stunned" By How Quickly Oceans Are Warming
Southern Hemisphere ocean temperatures have been rising much more quickly than previously thought, so much so that global ocean warming may have been underestimated by as much as 24 – 55%, according to a new study. Published by the journal Nature Climate Change and carried out by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the […]
James Hansen: How Climate Change Became Political
Climate science exploded into the political hemisphere on 23rd June 1988 and seemed to require huge government intervention in the markets. So how would the free market politicians react? In the next three posts we see how Margaret Thatcher responds to James Hansen’s call toย actionโฆ The mercury reached 98 degrees in Washington, DC on Thursdayย 23rd […]
Letโs Slow Down, For The Sake Of Ourselves And Our Planet
This is a guest post by Davidย Suzuki. The Amazon rainforest is magnificent. Watching programs about it, weโre amazed by brilliant parrots and toucans, tapirs, anacondas and jaguars. But if you ever go there expecting to be overwhelmed by a dazzling blur of activity, youโll be disappointed. The jungle has plenty of vegetation โ hanging vines, […]
Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
Update 02/11/15: The problems with California’s underground injection control program are far worse than originally reported. It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for โenhanced oil recoveryโ into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Waterย Act. Interested in DeSmog’s ongoing […]
โWild Westโ Approach to Regulation in Bakken Shale Means Bomb Trains Continue to Roll
Prepare yourself for a rare moment of honesty from the oilย industry. It happened on Sept. 23 at a hearing of the North Dakota Industrial Commission during a discussion on ways to make Bakken crude oil less flammable forย transportation. โThe flammable characteristics of our product are actually a big piece of why this product is so […]
Ed Davey Says Britain Must Lead on Climate Change
Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has delivered an emotionally charged speech at the Liberal Democrats Party Conference this week, depicting a future Britain that must lead the fight on climate change in Europe, while enduring three decades ofย fracking.ย Davey (pictured, last year) describes a Liberal Democrat Party that must remain united in its […]
Klein: Delay in Climate Action Means Ever More Radical Response
The failure of the political establishment to deal with climate change has meant โthere are no non-radical options left on the table,โ Naomi Klein told an audience of 2,000 people in London lastย night. The author ofย This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate said Keynesianism was not enough to deliver climate policy during a sell-out Guardian […]