Environment

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Deployed to the Houston area to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, U.S. military forces hadn’t even completed their assignments when they were hurriedly dispatched to Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to face Irma, the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic […]

Climate Change

How solar power can protect US military from threats to the grid

contributors

By Joshua M. Pearce | The Conversation | – – As the U.S. military increases its use of drones in surveillance and combat overseas, the danger posed by a threat back at home grows. Many drone flights are piloted by soldiers located in the U.S., even when the drones are flying over Yemen or Iraq […]

Climate Change

AT&T and Verizon Need to Hang Up On Fossil Fuels

contributors

By Todd Larsen | Otherwords.org | – – One text at a time, America’s largest telecommunications companies are fueling climate change. Smartphones are a huge part of our lives. We use them constantly for texts, social media, calls, directions, and finding information online. Even when we’re sleeping, they’re still active, receiving data all night. But […]

Climate Change

Antarctica Ice Melt will trigger Abrupt Global Heating

contributors

By Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Peter Kershaw, Steven Phipps, and Zoë Thomas | (The Conversation) | – – Melting of Antarctica’s ice can trigger rapid warming on the other side of the planet, according to our new research which details how just such an abrupt climate event happened 30,000 years ago, in which the North […]

Climate Change

Our CO2 intensified Harvey & Irma; Worse is yet to Come

contributors

By Andrew King | (The Conversation) | – – There has been no let up since Hurricane Harvey dumped record-breaking rains on the Houston area of Texas. Hurricane Irma lashed parts of the Caribbean and Cuba and is now heading onto the US mainland, having devastated the Florida Keys and the state’s west coast. We […]

Desertification

On 9/11: How we slighted the real Threat, Climate Change, and Hyped Terrorism

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US is commemorating the victims of September 11 today at the same time it is mourning the serial devastation that struck Texas and Florida. Both are key moments in our history. The problem is that we over-did our response to 9/11 and have ignored the […]

China

China studies Banning fossil fuel Car, going 100% Electric

Juan Cole

TeleSur | – – Last year, China became the largest supplier of electric cars – electric and gasoline-electric hybrids rose 50 percent over 2015 to 336,000. China, one of the world’s largest pollutant contributor, is gearing up to ban the use of fossil fuel. The government is making plans to gradually phase out the fuel […]

Climate Change

GOP Mayor of Miami to Trump: ‘If this isn’t Climate Change I don’t know what is’

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump may be provoking a big exodus of Cuban-Americans in south Florida out of the Republican Party. His attack on DACA or Obama’s suspension of prosecution for undocumented Americans who were brought to this country as infants or young children was extremely unpopular in the Miami […]

Climate Change

Gov. Rick Scott enabled Irma’s Fury through Climate Denialism & Should Resign

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Florida Gov. Rick Scott did not cause Irma, but he enabled the Frankenstorm. Before becoming governor in 2011, Scott had been an entrepreneur who “ specialized in privatizing healthcare and ran a hospital chain convicted of a massive healthcare fraud.” Scott met with Carbonmongers Charles and […]