Environment

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – French President Emmanuel Macron has a program he calls MAPA – “Making the Planet Great Again.” His government is offering funding to climate scientists who are facing obstacles in their home countries, to come and work in France. He just managed to lure away 18 high-powered […]

Climate Change

Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land: Heart-Wrenching Climate Change Video:

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National Geographic | – – Dec. 7, 2017 – This is what climate change looks like. This starving polar bear was spotted by National geographic photographer Paul Nicklen while on an expedition in the Baffin Islands. As temperatures rise, and sea ice melts, polar bears lose access to the main staple of their diet—seals. Starving, […]

Climate Change

1% plans Blade Runner Walls against 250 mn Climate Refugees

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By Todd Miller | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they were climate-change refugees. We were 20 miles from the border with Guatemala at a rail yard where Central American refugees […]

Climate Change

Climate Denier Rupert Murdoch’s Estate Burned in LA December Wildfires

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The Watchers | – – 1. 1. Rupert's network denies global warming.2. Global warming burns down his home.3. The end.#LAfire https://t.co/FYbm19TY9z — jp (@jpdoctor) December 6, 2017 2. Wochit News: “Rupert Murdoch’s California Home Threatened by Wildfires” ——– 3. The Watchers | – – California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in […]

Climate Change

German Poll: Trump a bigger Challenge than N. Korea, Russia or Syria

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A public opinion poll on German foreign policy carried out by the Koerber Foundation for its annual Berlin Forum has a bombshell finding: Germans are more disturbed about Trump and see relations with him as a bigger challenge than relations with North Korea, Russia, or than […]

Donald Trump

Navajo Nation to Sue Trump over Shrinking Bears Ears Monument

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TeleSur | – – The Navajo Nation has vowed to sue U.S. President Donald Trump over his decision to shrink Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent. Hundreds of people – including native tribe, the Navajo, and others – along with environmentalists gathered in Washington to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s damning decision to […]

Featured

If you’re not Driving an Electric Car you’re Losing Money

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Guardian reports on a new study showing that right now, in 2017, owning and operating a purely electric car such as the Chevy Bolt or a Tesla 3 or a Nissan Leaf is cheaper than operating a gasoline/ petrol automobile. For the moment, the researchers […]

Environment

Sanders pushes Marshall Plan, Renewables, for Puerto Rico as Trump tries to Lower own Taxes

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump went to Puerto Rico and told the hurricane victims there that they were inconvenient since the disaster that left them without potable water or electricity (nearly half still lack it) had put a crimp in the GOP budget. It later emerged that the GOP budget […]

Climate Change

Trump still wants Expensive Coal but the Market wants Cheap wind & Solar

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By Jonathan Marshall | (Consortiumnews.com) | – – Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance to this good news is doing real damage in the fight against global warming, reports Jonathan Marshall. With petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch paying many of the GOP’s bills […]