Climate Change

( Otherwords.org) – The Biden administration claims to “believe the science” on climate, but its actions need to catch up with its words. By Basav Sen | April 20, 2022 In early April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global scientific body, issued yet another dire report. They warned that we have barely […]

Climate Crisis

Climate change triggering global Collapse in Insect Numbers: stressed Farmland shows 63% Decline

The Conversation

By Tim Newbold, UCL; and Charlie Outhwaite, UCL | – Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down dead material to release nutrients into the soil. Flying insects are also key pollinators of many major food crops, including fruits, spices and – importantly […]

Climate Crisis

Is it possible to heal the damage we have already done to the Earth?

The Conversation

Scott Denning | – Sometimes it may seem that humans have altered the Earth beyond repair. But our planet is an incredible system in which energy, water, carbon and so much else flows and nurtures life. It is about 4.5 billion years old and has been through enormous changes. Is it possible to heal the […]

Climate Crisis

Can we Afford a Fair Global Climate Transition?

Foreign Policy in Focus

By Tom Athanasiou | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – How to create the political backing for the international effort necessary to achieve a fair and rapid global climate transition, even though that support would be properly denominated not in billions of dollars but rather in trillions, or even as percentages of Gross […]

Batteries

California Briefly Runs on 97% Renewable Energy, Showing a Future in which Oil and Gas Dictators like Putin are defunded

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – California’s energy mix was powered 97% by renewable energy on Sunday, April 3 at 3:39 p.m., the highest contribution of renewables to the state’s grid on record, according to David Knowles at Yahoo News. Although the milestone lasted only for a brief time, it points to a future in which […]

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France’s Macron: “I am combating the Project of the extreme Right … which is to put an End to Renewable Energy”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The two frontrunners in France’s presidential election who now face a run-off election against one another, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, have diametrically opposed stances on the climate emergency and renewable energy. Le Pen, the far right demagogue known for ugly hate speech and having a soft corner for […]

Climate Crisis

IPCC: Limiting heating to 2C requires CO2 Emissions to peak before 2025, and fall 25% by 2030

China Dialogue

By Catherine Early ( China Dialogue ) – Without “immediate and deep” emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5C will be impossible, according to the latest assessment by climate scientists. The warning came in the third report to be released in the last nine months by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]

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Hearkening Back to Ancient Glory, Greece opens Largest double-sided solar farm in Europe

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maeve Campbell at Euronews/ Reuters reports that Greece has brought online the continent’s largest double-sided solar facility, which will generate enough electricity to power 75,000 homes. There are about 4.5 million households in Greece, a country of 10.7 million. So this one facility covers 1.6 percent of them. While Greece […]

Climate Crisis

The Navajo Nation takes on the Climate Emergency

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

By Fiona L.Q. Flaherty | – (Cronkite News ) – PHOENIX – For many years, Tsegi Canyon on the Navajo Nation struggled: Its dry walls and streambanks were eroding, exposing crumbling red soil to the desert sky. Its springs were drying up; native plants were few and far between on the canyon floor, often replaced […]