Fossil Fuels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, the price of West Texas Intermediate petroleum fell below $30 a barrel for the first time in four years. Elliot Smith at CNBC reports that BP CFO Brian Gilvary is braced for petroleum demand actually to contract in 2020. This prediction is very bad news for US fracking […]

Climate Crisis

We have a Decade to Slash Carbon Emissions: After That it Gets Harder and much Hotter

Foreign Policy in Focus

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the climate talks to come, we need more youth, indigenous, and civil society groups — and fewer oil companies. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in October 2018 that we have 12 years to keep global temperatures increases at 1.5 degrees Celsius or […]

Climate Crisis

Americans want an End to Fossil Fuels, but Corporate Media won’t Tell You So

Basav Sen

The Washington Post downplayed the most hopeful findings of their own poll on climate action, so we highlighted those findings for them.

Climate Crisis

Your Global Carbon Dioxide Output will hit Record ~37 bn. Tons and it is Very Bad News

The Conversation

By Pep Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen Peters, Pierre Friedlingstein, Robbie Andrew< , Rob Jackson and Vanessa Haverd | - Global emissions for 2019 are predicted to hit 36.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂), setting yet another all-time record. This disturbing result means emissions have grown by 62% since international climate negotiations began in […]

Climate Crisis

If we don’t Slash Coal, Oil use 8%/yr., the Earth is heading for a Calamitous Temp. Rise of nearly 6° F.

China Dialogue

By Catherine Early | – China Dialogue – Missed opportunities for tough action on the climate emergency mean emissions cuts must be much faster, UN warns Emissions reductions need to be urgently speeded up, with a 7.6% cut required each year in order to keep global temperature rise within 1.5C, according to a UN assessment […]

Climate Crisis

Germany’s Merkel: World is Heading toward Disastrous Heating unless Rich Countries Drastically Cut CO2

Clean Energy Wire

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – The earth’s surface temperature will rise by three degrees Celsius [5.4° F.] under current climate targets, meaning CO2 emissions targets especially of industrialised countries have to be adjusted, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said at an event hosted by the country’s development cooperation ministry (BMZ) in Berlin. “Our targets are not […]

Environmentalism

Climate Crisis will Beggar Us: Big Oil needs to Pay for the Damage it Caused

Yes! Magazine

By Tamara Toles O’Laughlin and Bill McKibben | – (Yes! Magazine) – Climate change disproportionately affects poor people and people of color. They should be compensated for their suffering. This month in a Manhattan courthouse, New York State’s attorney general Letitia James argued that ExxonMobil should be held accountable for layers of lies about climate […]

Climate Crisis

Saudi Oil Giant Aramco’s $1.5 trillion IPO flies in the face of our Climate Crisis Reality

The Conversation

By Mark Shackleton | – The largest oil and gas producer, Saudi Aramco, is due to become the world’s most valuable publicly listed company. The Saudi government is planning to sell a small fraction of the firm’s shares on the Riyadh stock exchange before seeking a listing for 5% of the firm on an international […]

Climate Crisis

The Carbon Dioxide Horror Show: Sea Level threat to Coastal Cities triples in New Study

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scott A. Kulp and Benjamin H. Strauss have published an extremely alarming set of conclusions in Nature in which they recalculated the likely impact of sea level rise in this century on coastal populations. Previous measurements by NASA satellites of how high above sea level coastal areas are, were inexact […]