From Bloomberg: The House Judiciary Committee said it’s found “substantial evidence of collusion and anticompetitive behavior” by the financial industry to “impose radical ESG goals” on U.S. companies. An interim report published by the Republican-led committee said “a cartel” of …
Category: Climate Change
The U.S. Isn’t Leading the World on Climate Change Mitigation, and That’s Not Likely to Shift
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Why Today’s Corruption in the United States Is Worse than Ever Before
At left is the essential tragedy of American politics of the last ten years. But were our citizens’ dealings with the U.S. governments ever honest, at any real level? Of course not. Consider the robber barons of the late 19th …
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Are We Looking at the End? — a Few Further Thoughts
In my recent post Are We Looking at the End? I quoted a few scientists who claim that human civilization will “unravel” somewhere between 2040 and 2050, due primarily to climate change and the loss of biodiversity, particularly the insects. …
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What Trump Wants on U.S. Climate Progress
It’s true that Trump is probably the greatest single one-person threat to our capacity to address climate change mitigation and adaptation, not only in America, but in the world as a whole. That’s because a) he won the 2024 U.S. …
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Dealing with Global Warming: Sorry, We’ve Already Been Warned
At left is an ad for an environmental conference in Dubai. While the event itself may be interesting, the answer to the question posed here is No. The entire world and everyone living on it has been warned for many …
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Our New Gilded Age
The big difference between the current Gilded Age and the last one is the fragility of the environment. In the late 19th Century, we weren’t roasting our planet and losing tens of thousands of species annually. Sure, environmental science was …
Are We Looking at the End?
Here’s an article in which some of our planet’s top minds predict the unraveling of human civilization sometime between 2040 and 2050, driven largely by the loss of biodiversity and climate change. According to these folks, the only way for …
Greta!
When we see video clips of Greta Thunberg speaking to large audiences during international conferences, she is normally mad as hell. And given the truth shown in the meme here, is there any reason why she shouldn’t be?
Concerned About “Dirty Energy?”
Trump plans to nominate Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy and environmental policy skeptic, to be the next energy secretary. Wright plans to slow the process of phasing out fossil fuels in favor of renewables, and is perhaps best known for …
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Common Trait of Trump Supporters: Arrogance
In healthcare, we have people who think they know better than the doctors and medical scientists. In climate change, it’s arguably even more offensive. Here, we have the climate deniers who claim that the true cause of our warming temperatures …
