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Feeding us in a Climate Friendly Way requires Reducing Livestock

( Clean Energy Wire) – Greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2030 in the agriculture sector cannot be reached without implementing measures to reduce the livestock, according to a report by the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut), commissioned by environmental umbrella organisation Climate-Alliance. Gases that trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere are called greenhouse gases (GHGs). […]

Featured

In Norway Electric Vehicles outsold Gasoline Cars for first Time in History and other EV Success Stories

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Electric cars are coming on like gangbusters, as ranges increase and prices fall dramatically. Here are 6 headlines pointing to the green car future: 1. In Norway, electric vehicles in March, 2019, outsold gasoline-driven cars for the first time. 2. Indeed, electric vehicles in Norway were responsible for 58% of […]

Climate Change

Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth’s Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs

The Conversation

If pushed far enough, global systems can evidently collapse into a death-spiral

Climate Change

We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem

The Conversation

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal

Climate Change

Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn’t Tell you That

The Conversation

Climate change is likely to cause a disproportionate increase in heavy precipitation events in the Midwest, a trend that is already apparent

Climate Change

Ocean Heat hits Record High, in Bad News for Planet

AFP

The thermal expansion — water swelling as it warms — is expected to raise sea levels 12 inches

Climate Change

Back to the Sweltering Pliocene: World’s Production of CO2 Spiked again in 2018

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The world– you and I included– actually greatly increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by 2.87 parts per million, raising the total to just about 410 ppm. So reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This was a significant increase, the fourth largest during the past 60 […]

Climate Crisis

ExxonMobil & 4 other Oil Giants Spent $1 bn on Greenwashing PR, $100 bn on New Fossil Fuels

AFP

“How can we accept that companies spending hundreds of millions lobbying against EU reaching the Paris agreement are still granted access to decision makers?