Environment

By Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks) | – – “Congressional Republicans threatening the survival of the human species are telling fairy tales about heavenly carbon bailouts to help themselves sleep better at night. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss.” The Young Turks: “No, Republicans… God Won’t […]

Climate Change

How bad could Trump’s Paris Agreement withdrawal be? A scientist’s perspective

contributors

By Robert Kopp | (The Conversation) | – – Even before the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015, market forces and policy measures were starting to tilt the world toward a lower-carbon future. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007, and Chinese emissions may have peaked in 2014. Solar energy, wind and energy storage […]

Climate Change

Did Trump’s Climate Disavowal just kill Capitalism?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The last time capitalism faced a crisis this deep, it was 1929. People minded the Great Depression. All those people Joe McCarthy persecuted in the 1950s for having joined the Communist Party when they were young and angry had been angry because of the Great Depression. […]

Climate Change

Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Trump just Doomed his own Supporters

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Thursday, Trump delivered himself of one of the most brain-dead speeches ever given by an American president, more imbecilic even than Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” or Nixon’s “I am not a crook.” He withdrew from the Paris climate accords, saying that he was elected to represent […]

Africa

Is the European Refugee Crisis being Driven by Drought and Climate Change?

contributors

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME (IPS) – Water–everybody talks about it, warns against its growing scarcity, excessive waste, the impact of climate change, the frequent severe droughts and so on. Now, a global action network with over 3,000 partner organisations in 183 countries comes to unveil the dangerous nexus […]

Climate Change

If They’re Wrong, the Planet Dies

contributors

By Edward Hunt. | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The Obama administration could have done more to stop climate change. The Trump administration couldn’t have done less. . . . As human activity continues to warm the planet at an alarming rate, the leaders of the United States are failing to confront […]

Climate Change

Beautiful A-Bombs and CO2: All the ways a Disturbed Trump could Blow up the World

contributors

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – He’s huge. Outsized. He fills the news hole at any moment of any day. His over-tanned face glows unceasingly in living rooms across America. Never has a president been quite so big. So absolutely monstrous. Or quite so small. He’s our Little Big Man. I know, […]

Climate Change

Allies Furious as Trump w/draws from G7 Climate Commitment, May leave Paris Accord

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump bombed at the G7 summit in Italy. Despite an “intense” discussion with Germany, France and the others, who made it clear as sunshine that they wanted the US to meet its Paris Climate obligations, Trump refused to join in the issuance of a joint statement […]

Environment

Retraining Workers for Climate Action: How the Light Gets In

contributors

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – Every now and then I re-visit these lines of the Canadian poet and songwriter, Leonard Cohen: Ring the bells that cannot ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. In these times of climate change denial, macho […]