Environment

by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The “Letter Warning Humanity” from scientists has now been signed by over 20,000 scientists, as The Independent notes. The reason for this alarm is given in these charts: They show alarmingly accelerating carbon dioxide emissions (we were up worldwide again last year), declining access to fresh […]

Environmentalism

Top 4 myths about Electric Cars & why they should not Discourage You

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – China produced 680,000 electric vehicles last year, as much as the rest of the world combined. But by 2020 the Chinese hope to make and sell 2 million EV’s a year, and to go on up from there. The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reduce […]

Climate Change

How Maine climate activists found their power potential by moving past one-off protests

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By George Lakey | ( Waging Nonviolence | – – Rob Levin, a Quaker attorney in Portland, Maine, has been concerned about the growing climate crisis for years. Recently, he came to see that using nonviolent direct action could increase his effectiveness on the issue. When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris […]

Climate Change

In anti-Trump surge, Renewables make 18% of US electricity & impel job growth

Juan Cole

US Carbon Emissions Fall slightly

Climate Change

Seas Rising ever Faster as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels (NASA Image)

Juan Cole

Image via NASA NASA’s Earth Observatory writes: “Global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data. This acceleration has been driven mainly by increased ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, and it has the potential to double the total […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel isn’t Just Occupying Palestinian West Bank, it is Polluting It

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Ramona Wadi (@walzerscent) | (The Middle East Monitor) | – – Israel remains the only UN member state which has never declared where its borders are. In fact, it has refused to demarcate any borders due to the Zionist intention to colonise the whole of historic Palestine. For less desirable requirements, however, it does not […]

Climate Change

Sea Level Rise Speeding up as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels

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TeleSur | – – The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans. Sea level rise is accelerating and could reach 66 centimeters by century’s end, in line with United Nations estimates and enough to cause […]

Climate Change

Cheap German Green Energy, Decarbonization Laws, Pressuring Dirty Polish Coal

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By Bartłomiej Derski | Euractiv.com / WysokieNapiecie.pl | translated by Alexandra Brzozowski | – – Since 1990, the production of “green” electricity in Germany has increased by 1,000% and export rates, according to preliminary data for 2017, just smashed another record. EURACTIV Poland’s partner WysokieNapiecie.pl reports. When Germany was reunified, three electricity sources reigned supreme: […]

Denialism

Even conservatives are resisting Trump’s radical assault on the environment

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By Tan Copsey | (ChinaDialogue) | – – President Trump has been in power for just over a year and has enjoyed few policy successes. But one area where his administration’s radical, deregulatory agenda has been successful is in dismantling environmental protections. The Trump administration has not quite fulfilled a campaign promise to abolish the […]