Environment

By Natalie Sauer | – ( Climate Home News ) – As 2019 dawns, it is crunch time for the Paris Agreement on climate change. Last month’s UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland set (most of) the technical rules of the Paris Agreement, but showed little sign of renewed ambition. Responding to the latest scientific […]

Climate Change

Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?

Tom Engelhardt

(Via Tomdispatch.com ) – Sixty-six million years ago, so the scientists tell us, an asteroid slammed into this planet. Landing on what’s now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, it gouged out a crater 150 kilometers wide and put so much soot and sulfur into the atmosphere that it created what was essentially a prolonged “nuclear winter.” During […]

Mass Extinction

Mysterious Mass die-off of Insects threatens Pollination, Food Supply

Nature

(Nature) Recognizing the quiet extinction of invertebrates Nico Eisenhauer, Aletta Bonn & Carlos A. Guerra Nature Communications, volume 10, Article number: 50 (2019) | Download Citation Abstract Invertebrates are central to the functioning of ecosystems, yet they are underappreciated and understudied. Recent work has shown that they are suffering from rapid decline. Here we call […]

Environmentalism

Can the Green New Deal Save the Planet and Create Jobs?

Norah Vawter

By Norah Vawter | – (Otherwords.org) – Lately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, the United Nations issued a major report warning of a climate crisis as soon as 2040. The day after Thanksgiving, the Trump administration tried to bury the release of its […]

Environment

Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down 6% in 2018

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By Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Germany’s energy-related CO₂ emissions dropped by more than six percent year-on-year as the country consumed “significantly” less energy in 2018, but with a greater share of renewables than last year, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Increased fuel prices, mild weather and […]

Climate Change

$100 Bn.: Cost in 2018 of Climate Crisis Caused by Burning Fossil Fuels

TeleSur

2018 saw at least one major climate-induced disaster on every inhabited continent on Earth. Climate change-induced disasters cost nations at least US$100 billion in 2018, a watchdog said Thursday, warning the spate of deadly wildfires, floods and superstorms was “a shadow” of things to come if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t slashed. This year is set […]

Climate Crisis

The Climate Crisis: “There is no Time to Continue down this Road of Madness”

H. Patricia Hynes

<p>A week into the 2018 UN climate change conference that convened in Poland, The New York Times’ quote of the day read: “The biggest threats to the planet are the lack of U.S. climate leadership at home and the unwillingness of the U.S. to engage with China.” <i>The biggest threats to the planet</i>! Yet not […]

Climate Change

How the Right missed the Real Globalist Conspiracy, of Big Oil to Heat the Planet

John Feffer

( Tomdispatch.com) – You know the story: the globalists want your guns. They want your democracy. They’re hovering just beyond the horizon in those black helicopters. They control the media and Wall Street. They’ve burrowed into a deep state that stretches like a vast tectonic plate beneath America’s fragile government institutions. They want to replace […]

Climate Change

Despite US, Russian & Saudi Opposition, Climate Summit Reaffirms Paris Goals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Climate Summit at Kotwice, Poland, ended on a positive note, with the 195 countries present committing themselves to financing instruments in a quest to cut carbon dioxide emissions and keep global heating to 1.5 degrees C. (2.7 degrees F.). Given that so many countries are producing so much CO2, […]