Environment

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, […]

Mass Extinction

Where have all the Creatures Gone? Long Time Passing… (Hint: We’ve Killed Them Off)

Tomdispatch

By Subhankar Banerjee | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening to the nonhuman life forms with which we share this planet, you’ve likely heard the term “the Sixth Extinction.” If not, look it up. After all, a superb environmental reporter, Elizabeth Kolbert, has already gotten a Pulitzer Prize […]

Sea Level

Island Nations facing Rising Seas Demand Action at UN Climate Summit

AFP

Katowice, Poland | AFP | Ministers from nations imperilled by rising seas and temperatures on Tuesday called for drastic action at UN climate talks deadlocked over a refusal by big polluters to embrace landmark environmental data. The COP24 summit in Poland is scheduled to finish at the end of the week but delegates are still […]

Climate Change

“Rogue Nations” of Saudi, US and Russia Angrily Derail Climate Summit Report

AFP

Katowice, Poland | AFP | – The refusal of the United States and Saudi Arabia to embrace a landmark environmental report has unsettled UN talks to breathe life back into the Paris climate pact, negotiators and observers said Monday. It may also signal more direct involvement of Donald Trump’s White House, they said, in the […]

Climate Change

Red Alert: World will Put out Record 37 bn tons of Heat-Trapping Carbon Dioxide in 2018

The Conversation

By Pep Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen Peters, Robbie Andrew, and Rob Jackson | – Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from fossil fuels and industry are projected to rise more than 2% (range 1.8% to 3.7%) in 2018, taking global fossil CO₂ emissions to a new record high of 37.1 billion tonnes. The strong growth is […]