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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Chinese President Xi Jinping made a state visit, full of pomp and circumstance, to Pakistan on Monday, but its centerpiece was a $46 billion investment in the country, dwarfing the US Congress’s $7.5 bn. program initiated in 2008. Whereas the US likes to sell useless weapons systems that […]

Acidification of Oceans

If Climate Change ends Capitalism, what good are Climate Economists?

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By David Ray Griffin | (Informed Comment) – Since the 1970s, when he essentially founded the economics of climate change, William Nordhaus had been considered its preeminent authority. According to a fellow economist, the optimal economic policy had for decades been simply “what Bill Nordhaus said." This view had been unquestioned, said a 2013 article, […]

Climate Change

China’s Big Clean-Up: Asia’s Hope

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By Mark L. Clifford | (Author of The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency) – Asia sometimes feels like one big environmental emergency. Breathing Beijing’s air on a bad mid-winter’s day is more dangerous than breathing the smoke in a forest fire. The appearance of thousands of pig carcasses floating […]

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Khamenei: US invented nuclear Myth; Iran will Never Invade another Country

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The clerical leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, gave a speech on Sunday in which he urged that Iran maintain its military readiness in order to fend off any hostile invasion or attack. But, he said, “Iran has never invaded a country and never will.” He also called US […]

Energy

Clean Disruption: Why Conventional Energy and Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030

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Tony Seba | “Tony Seba gives the keynote address at the NZ SmartGrid Forum at the Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand, March 31, 2014. The keynote is titled “Clean Disruption: Why Conventional Energy and Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030″. In this keynote, Seba highlights four areas where the combination of exponentially improving […]

Climate Change

Floating wind turbine in the sky Can Power whole Villages

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Dan Simmons | (BBC Click) – “The floating wind turbine that could help provide power to remote communities. The helium-filled device, known as The Bat, can adjust its height to take advantage of the weather conditions and can boost mobile phone signals if telecommunications equipment are added to the rig. BBC Click’s Dan Simmons reports.” […]

Acidification of Oceans

Turning Point: 2015, the Year the World turned to Renewables and saved itself

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By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – Don’t hold your breath, but future historians may look back on 2015 as the year that the renewable energy ascendancy began, the moment when the world started to move decisively away from its reliance on fossil fuels. Those fuels — oil, natural gas, and coal — […]

Climate Change

Australia’s new Super Solar Cells Double Efficiency

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Graham Philips | (ABCTVCatalyst) | – “Australian scientists from the University of New South Wales have set a new world record for the efficiency of commercially-viable solar cells. Dr Graham Phillips investigates new technology that is able to convert more than 40 per cent of the sun’s light into electricity. This is more than double […]

Climate Change

Marco Rubio’s Massive Flip-Flop on Climate Change, Green Energy

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Climate Desk | – Climate Desk: “Marco Rubio on Climate Change”