Fossil Fuels

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Eminent physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s tweet pointing out that there are no eclipse denialists the way there are dedicated climate change denialists went viral: Odd. No one is in denial of America’s Aug 21 total solar eclipse. Like Climate Change, methods & tools of science predict […]

Coal

Rethink Coal! Australia emits nerve poison Mercury at double Global Average

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Robyn Schofield | (The Conversation) | – – A report released this week by advocacy group Environmental Justice Australia presents a confronting analysis of toxic emissions from Australia’s coal-fired power plants. The report, which investigated pollutants including fine particles, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, also highlights our deeply inadequate mercury emissions regulations. In New South […]

Coal

1 in 9 Deaths are from Air Pollution & Trump is making it Worse

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The Tree | – – Air pollution is driving a global public health crisis. It is responsible for one in nine deaths worldwide, and touches everyone given 92% of the human race live in places that do not meet World Health Organisation guidelines. As it is also driving a climate crisis – with increasingly heavy […]

Acidification of Oceans

Of all things Trump did to us, Vast new toxic CO2 Emissions are the Worst

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By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy? Pundits and critics across the political spectrum have chided him for failing to articulate and implement a clear international agenda. Look closely at his overseas endeavors, though, and one all-too-consistent pattern emerges: Donald Trump […]

Climate Change

Shell, terrified of EVs, expects ‘low forever’ Gasoline Prices; it is too Optimistic

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Telegraph reports that Royal Dutch Shell, the massive oil company, has abruptly decided that petroleum prices are likely to remain low “forever,” given the rise of the electric vehicle. France and Britain have both just vowed that they will have no gasoline vehicles by 2040, […]

Acidification of Oceans

If we don’t Dump Fossil Fuels Now, we’re Sticking our Kids with $530 Trillion in Debt

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By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – – By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of up to US$535 trillion. This would be the cost of the “negative emissions” technologies required to remove CO₂ from the air in order to avoid dangerous […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s Folly: Oil is a Worthless Commodity and Saudi’s Crown Prince Knows It

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Crude oil prices are cratering, down 20% this year, in the biggest 6-month free fall in years. As Annie Pei of CNBC notes, Investment guru Dennis Gartman admitted in an interview with the network that petroleum is “a worthless commodity.” Gartman said that prices could rally […]

Climate Change

Trump’s new Clash of Civilizations: Carbonites v. Greens

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By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, we’ve been told, President Trump is dismantling the liberal world order created […]

Climate Change

Did Trump’s Climate Disavowal just kill Capitalism?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The last time capitalism faced a crisis this deep, it was 1929. People minded the Great Depression. All those people Joe McCarthy persecuted in the 1950s for having joined the Communist Party when they were young and angry had been angry because of the Great Depression. […]