WTF, Weather?
Can’t keep your ‘derechos’ straight from your ‘haboobs?’ Fear not! This vocab list will make you a global warming whiz.
climate change
Have the Obits for Peak Oil Come Too Soon?
Among the big energy stories of 2013, “peak oil” — the once-popular notion that worldwide oil production would soon reach a maximum level and begin an irreversible decline — was thoroughly discredited. The explosive development of shale oil and other unconventional fuels in the United States helped put it in its grave.
Here’s Why Suburban Sprawl Cancels Out The Climate Benefits Of City Living
The average [household carbon footprint] in an urban core in the country is about 50 percent less than the average in the commuting suburbs around it
The Psychology of Global Warming
One way to psychologically deal with global warming is denial. For those who profit from fossil fuel production or those who want unlimited use of fossil fuels, this is the primary way in which the issue is addressed.
Radical Emissions Planning: Kevin Anderson interview
Professor Kevin Anderson on science and politics; shale gas and climate; and climate, economics and finance.
Fracking headlines
•The Shale Oil Party Is Ending, Phibro’s Andy Hall Warns •Wyoming May Act to Plug Abandoned Wells as Natural Gas Boom Ends •Whither the world of energy prices during the next 12 months? •How long will the fracking boom last? •Colorado Communities Could Ban Fracking Under New Proposed Amendment •Bakken Crude Found More Dangerous to Ship Than Other Oil •Shale Gas: Killing Coal without Cutting CO2 •New York State Petroleum Council Speaks Out on Fracking
Scenari Dopo La Crescita
This is an Italian translation of the joint Post Carbon Institute/Transition Network report Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics and Community Resilience.
Time to stop investing in carbon capture and storage
Government investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a large and expensive fossil-fuel subsidy with a low probability of eventual societal benefit.
Donald Trump’s Hair, The End Of Global Warming And Other Things That Aren’t Real
In its 2014 Users’ Guide, Time magazine notes that this could be the hottest year on record with unusually “weird weather,” particularly if, as some “scientists are predicting,” we see an El Niño.
Grass, soil, hope
Grass, Soil, Hope tackles an increasingly anguished question: what can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting us today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability?
A Legal Call to Arms for the Planet
Mary Christina Wood has an unsparing view of the state of environmental protection in the United States today…
Stabbing the beast
The two civilisation destroying situations we face are peak oil and climate change.