Frequent commenter Marco Polo writes: Transportation of oil will always be a difficult and risky task. It seems everyone wants the benefits of oil products, but the “not in my backyard” syndrome seems to obsess a small, but very loudly …
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When the Keystone XL pipeline experienced its 200,000-gallon leak a few weeks ago, polluting Native Americans’ land (as so many predicted it would), the writers on the America’s comedy shows had their work cut out for them. Here’s the way …
Germany is known around the world for its bold investments in renewable energy ($200 billion since the mid-1990s), but the creation of such vast supply causes wrinkles in the economics of power, namely, negative prices on occasions.
In most cases in our human experiences, births are regarded as blessed events, as a bouncing baby boy or girl is brought into the world.
The cartoonist who created the work of art below seems to know something most of us have long since forgotten, and that something, if we are able to internalize it, may be the best Christmas present anyone could possibly receive.
A friend sent me this piece on a paper published in Nature suggesting that the effects of climate change could be far worse than most scientists predict. I respond:
It seems a good time to look at the year 2017 in review, and to take us there, here’s the Public Broadcasting System’s “News Hour” reporting on the subject.
As we’ve discussed frequently here, the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is an extremely important, though infinitely complex and dynamic component in the environmental destruction caused by global warming.
The single most astounding aspects of the “Trump phenomenon” is that a) members of his support base are hurt hardest by his policies, and b) they don’t seem to care. The steel industry made an impressive comeback after the 2008 …
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Here’s a wonderful article that lays out the history of climate change denial, while discussing the current state of affairs, i.e., how huge economic and political forces seek to obfuscate the truth.
