Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg | (The Conversation) | – – While businesses have been principal agents in increasing greenhouse gas emissions, they are also seen by many as crucial to tackling climate change. However, our research shows how corporations’ ambitious pro-climate proposals are systematically degraded by criticism from shareholders, media, governments, other corporations and […]
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Climate Change
After CO2-fueled Disasters, Why won’t the U. of Michigan go Green?
Jonathan Morris | ( The Michigan Daily) | – – This month, two remarkable events occurred that passed mostly under the radar here on campus. First, to start off the month, the University of Michigan celebrated its bicentennial with an entire week of climate change-themed activities, called MC2: Michigan & The Climate Crisis. This event […]
Puerto Ricans Must Come First, Not Wall Street Vultures
By Maria Beri | (Inequality.org) | – – Every dollar going to one of the hedge funds that have bought up much of the island’s debt is a dollar taken away from saving lives. I still cry when I talk to my family back in Puerto Rico. I am from a small town in Puerto […]
Warm waters melting Antarctic ice shelves for 1st time in 7,000 years
Sev Kender | (The Conversation) | – – The vast expanse of the Antarctic is a region of the world particularly vulnerable to climate change, where ice loss has the potential to significantly increase sea levels. Now, for possibly the first time in 7,000 years, a phenomenon known as “upwelling” (the upward flow of warmer […]
Volcano-driven Climate Change Defeated Egypt’s Ptolemies
By Steven Young | ( The Watchers) | – – Around 245 BCE Ptolemy III, ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, made a decision that still puzzles many historians: After pursuing a successful military campaign against the kingdom’s nemesis, the Seleucid Empire, centered mainly in present-day Syria and Iraq, Ptolemy III suddenly decided to […]
Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico
Marc Anthony calls Trump approach to Puerto Rico disaster “tone-deaf, idiotic, callous and disrespectful”
As Trump & Pruitt unleash Climate Demons, Scientists dream of Atlantic Wind Farm
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The debate over whether Donald Trump or Rex Tillerson has the higher IQ, provoked by a Trump tweet that he now says was a joke, actually raises a serious question. Why would someone deliberately sabotage our air, water and climate? The science needed for understanding that […]
Can Coffee survive Climate Change?
Sylvain Charlebois | (The Conversation) | – – Fall is always a good time to create new habits, and coffee chains know it. These days, they are desperately trying to find any excuse to get you to drink their java. Many chains used National or International Coffee Day, just passed, as a reason to offer […]
Top Ten Renewable Energy surprises in New IEA Report
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A new International Energy Agency report contains some startling findings about solar energy dominance and its future. !. Renewables comprised 66% of all new net electricity capacity additions in 2016. Two-thirds of added capacity, in other words, consisted of photovoltaic solar cells, wind turbines and biofuels. […]
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