Climate Change

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 […]

Desertification

The Coming Water Wars

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Jo Ankier and John Fenoglio | (TheLipTV) | – “Around 60% more food will be needed to feed the world’s growing population by 2050 and with the demand for water set to increase by 55% water supplies in less developed countries are under severe threat as agriculture tries to meet that demand, according to a […]

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”

Acidification of Oceans

Triassic Graveyard: 200 Mn Years ago, CO2 emissions like ours led to Mass Extinction

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By Jessica H. Whiteside | (The Conversation) – Just over 200 million years ago, the end-Triassic mass extinction killed off more than half of the species of organisms living on Earth’s land and in the oceans. We are only just beginning to understand how this – and the period of runaway global warming that followed […]

Climate Change

Oil Train Derailments, Exploding Towns & the Hidden Cost of Fracked Oil

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By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) On July 6th, 2013, at about one AM, an unattended 74-car oil train loaded with fracking-derived Bakken crude oil came free on a railroad grade above the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, careened into town, derailed, exploded and burned. Forty-seven persons died. The town center was demolished. So far, that […]