Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some have questioned how realistic Biden’s plans are to move the US rapidly off fossil fuels. In fact, it is the fossil fuels that are unrealistic. Burning petroleum and coal are bad for everyone’s health and destined to make earth swelteringly hot, with lots of climate catastrophes and extreme weather. […]
- Africa (148)
- Animals (1)
- Asia (848)
- Australasia (2)
- Australia (7)
- Authoritarianism (188)
- Canada (1)
- Cats (1)
- Culture (424)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (251)
- Dissent (290)
- Economy (742)
- Education (76)
- Elderly (3)
- Electricity Cost (1)
- Energy (1,107)
- Environment (1,537)
- Europe (798)
- Featured (2,722)
- fiction (5)
- Food (9)
- G20 (1)
- Guns (9)
- Health (475)
- History (244)
- Human Rights (1,001)
- Immigration (17)
- International (614)
- Islamophobia (314)
- Juan Cole (268)
- Latin America (68)
- Latinos (3)
- leisure (21)
- media (378)
- Middle East (7,323)
- Arab World (4,649)
- Iran (922)
- Israel (707)
- Israel/ Palestine (1,972)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (264)
- Turkey (447)
- military (105)
- Modernism (1)
- nationalism (102)
- NATO (6)
- Natural Disasters (11)
- nuclear weapons (60)
- Patriarchy (2)
- Peace (80)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Pete Buttigieg (1)
- Popular Culture (24)
- Poverty (11)
- privacy (20)
- racism (355)
- Rape (5)
- religion (1,197)
- Rights (128)
- robots (1)
- Romance (1)
- science (118)
- Secular (West) (8)
- Secularism (26)
- Sexual Assault (2)
- South Pacific (1)
- Spirituality (21)
- Statelessness (14)
- Surveillance (259)
- Terrorism (1,036)
- Tolerance (4)
- Uncategorized (8,046)
- United Nations (80)
- Urbanization (3)
- US Foreign Policy (609)
- US politics (4,067)
- Anti-War Movement (6)
- Campaign Finance (27)
- Censors (21)
- Central Intelligence Agency (59)
- Civil Rights (84)
- Congress (40)
- Conspiracy Theories (8)
- Constitution (324)
- crime (6)
- Democratic Party (605)
- Democratic Socialists of America (14)
- Domestic Terrorism (16)
- Drone Warfare (26)
- Espionage (117)
- Ethnicities (290)
- Far Right (236)
- FBI (42)
- Foreign Policy (203)
- Gay Rights (15)
- Guns (65)
- Immigration (197)
- Israel Lobbies (84)
- Marijuana (1)
- Militarization (229)
- National Security State (387)
- Native Americans (27)
- Nuclear arsenal (6)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (372)
- Police (35)
- prison reform (6)
- Private Prisons (1)
- Puerto Rico (25)
- Religious Right (1)
- Reproductive Choice (7)
- Republican Party (2,524)
- Supreme Court (60)
- Voter suppression (19)
- Whistleblowers (4)
- Xenophobia (8)
- Veterans (29)
- Voting Rights (4)
- War (282)
- White Supremacists (107)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (295)
- workers (149)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (123)
Environment
Scientists: Earth is substantially hotter than at any time during past 12,000 Years; entire Holocene was Cool
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Our human civilization, with agriculture is only about 10,000 years old. It started in the Middle East in the Neolithic. An ice age began about 3 million years ago, and we are still in it inasmuch as Antarctica is covered with ice as is the North Pole, Greenland and the […]
All Hands on Deck: Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before
By Bill Ritter Jr. | – Joe Biden is preparing to deal with climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before – by mobilizing his entire administration to take on the challenge from every angle in a strategic, integrated way. The strategy is evident in the people Biden has chosen for his […]
Biden to have Feds buy 650K Electric Vehicles, Promising rapid Fall in EV Prices
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden plans to create a million auto-worker jobs by replacing the enormous fleet of some 650,000 vehicles owned by the federal government with electric cars. He specified EVs that emit no carbon dioxide, which suggests he wants the government to buy pure EVs like General Motors’ Chevy Bolt […]
President Biden, We can do this too: Europe generates more electricity with Renewables than Fossil Fuels for First Time
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new report from Ember and Agora Energiewende finds that in 2020, the 27 countries of the European Union generated more electricity with renewables (wind, solar, hydro) than with fossil fuels (coal and natural gas). The growth in renewables has all come from wind and solar. These two increased by […]
Will the Pandemic help Shift the world from Oil to Green Energy?
By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It is crucial to an understanding of the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic to consider the transition to alternative energy sources for the benefit of future generations. Covid-19 is affecting people all over the world, but a year ago it was just another […]
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the Coal Plants: How Joe Biden can save the Planet
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My title is from William Shakespeare’s Henry the VI. In the original, Dick “the Butcher” is speaking of ways to overthrow the king and improve the country, and he suggests killing all the lawyers first. Nowadays, carbon dioxide is the thing preventing us from improving the country. President Biden has […]
With Yellen at Treasury, Can we Finally get a Progressive Carbon Tax?
By Rachel Kyte | – Janet Yellen is poised to be the next U.S. Treasury secretary, and her inbox will require every ounce of her vast experience to pilot the economy through a daunting confluence of challenges. How the U.S. manages the economic recovery from COVID-19, the financial risks from climate change and inequality together […]
Climate Crisis: what would 7.1° F. ( 4°C) of global warming feel like?
By Robert Wilby | – Another year, another climate record broken. Globally, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year ever recorded. This was all the more remarkable given that cool conditions in the Pacific Ocean – known as La Niña – began to emerge in the second half of the year. The Earth’s mean […]