This article originally appeared on Common Dreams. Amid warnings that the proposed TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could undermine global attempts to rein in runaway climate change, new documents reveal that…
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology via EurekAlert: This news release is available in German. The production of energy from natural gas without generating carbon dioxide emissions could fast become a reality, thanks to…
This post originally appeared on Common Dreams. See more of Lauren McCauley’s articles here. The amount of methane being leaked from natural gas production sites has been hugely underestimated, according to a…
This post originally appeared on Common Dreams. See more of Jon Queally’s articles here. They knew. They lied. And the planet and its people are now paying the ultimate price. It’s no secret…
A secluded airport in the Mojave desert is home to decommissioned airplanes — an airplane graveyard, if you will. Andreana Scanderbeg and Alexander Sauer documented the industrial decay and “turned [the airplanes] into a…
This posted was originally published on Common Dreams. See more of Sarah Lazare’s posts here. Marking yet another grim milestone for an ever-warming planet, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revealed on…
Via Tim McDonnell at Mother Jones: After 20 years at the helm of one of the United Kingdom’s most influential newspapers, Alan Rusbridger is about to step down as editor of the Guardian….
via Clean Technica: In the same week that a new study found that G20 nations, including Australia, were providing $US88 billion ($A102 billion) a year in subsidies just for fossil fuel exploration,…
Peak oil has been an alarmist catch phrase for so long that many of us simply assume that oil production has in fact peaked and we’re well on the way to running…
If the archetypal American oligarchs, the Rockefellers, are divesting themselves of fossil fuel assets and replacing them with so-called clean energy assets, have we moved past a tipping point or is it…
In a big move, the World Council of Churches plans to pull funding from fossil fuels. Jon Queally writes at Common Dreams: In what the global fossil fuel divestment movement is claiming…
British political and environmental activist George Monbiot addresses the excellent question of why industrial nations all believe that economic growth is a necessity, at The Guardian: Let us imagine that in 3030BC…
Methane hydrate, colloquially known as Fire Ice, is being discussed as the energy of the future that will render peak oil and all the other expiring fossil fuel sources irrelevant. BBC News…
Wen Stephenson and Benjamin Franta, via the Nation: The movement for fossil-fuel divestment has swelled to what an Oxford University study calls the fastest-growing divestment movement in history, one with the potential…
Abby Martin goes over updates to the chemical spill in West Virginia and the coal-ash spill in North Carolina, exposing the human and environmental impact as well as the lack of accountability…
Vandana Shiva writes on the intersections of capitalism, the state, agribusiness, and a burgeoning organic movement in South Asia. Via Al Jazeera: The economic crisis, the ecological crisis and the food crisis…
“Too Much Magic” With James Howard Kunstler | The DisinfoCast with Matt Staggs: Episode 07
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Social critic and peak oil provocateur James Howard Kunstler is on The DisinfoCast to discuss his upcoming book Too Much Magic: Technology, Wishful Thinking and the Fate of the Nation. Kunstler believes that the end of cheap, readily available oil is very near, and with it the collapse of the industrial society as we know it. According to Kunstler, alternative energy sources and other technological solutions are just wishful thinking, and the future that awaits us may very well resemble our past.
The inside story of climate scientists under siege, at Wired:
It is almost possible to dismiss Michael Mann’s account of a vast conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry to harrass scientists and befuddle the public. His story of that campaign, and his own journey from naive computer geek to battle-hardened climate ninja, seems overwrought, maybe even paranoid.
But now comes the unauthorized release of documents showing how a libertarian thinktank, the Heartland Institute, which has in the past been supported by Exxon, spent millions on lavish conferences attacking scientists and concocting projects to counter science teaching for kindergarteners…
Via ScienceDaily: Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49 per cent in the last two decades, according to the latest figures by an international team, including researchers…
Recently John Collins Rudolf reported in the New York Times: The world may have no more than half a century of oil left at current rates of consumption, while surging demand from…
Via the Post Carbon Institute:
By Jerry Garrett for the New York Times: What is it? A hybrid based on the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. How serious is Ferrari about hybrid power? Ferrari calls the HY-KERS Hybrid…