Climate Change
Jasper Bernes: Between the Devil and the Green New Deal
We cannot legislate and spend our way out of catastrophic global warming. Read here
Energy
Climate Change
Paul Brown – Fracking’s Methane Leaks Drive Climate Heat
One likely cause of the inexorable rise in global heat is fracking’s methane leaks from the shale gas industry. Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network and journalist Cross-posted from Climate News Network […]
Aviation
Change! Why We Need a Radical Turnaround by Graeme Maxton
Book review by Hauke Benner Over 180 pages, Graeme Maxton criticises governments, corporations and entrepreneurs, especially in rich countries, for complete failure in the face of the threat of climate collapse and calls for “a […]
Climate Change
Paul Brown – Only a Climate Revolution Can Cool the World
An academic book on fossil fuel consumption reaches a startling conclusion: only a climate revolution can force governments to act to stop the planet overheating. Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network and […]
Climate Change
DeSmog UK -Comment: Policymakers Shouldn’t Trust Drax’s Bizarre Tree-Burning Climate Solution
We have a climate crisis and this is the sort of inane capitalist technical solutions we are being offered – and subsidise! By Almuth Ernsting, bioenergy campaigner with Biofuelwatch Cross-posted from DeSmog UK Image: Drax Group/Flickr CC […]
Energy
Montel News: French heatwave warning as EDF to shut 2.6 GW of capacity
This is just another drawback with regard to expensive, dangerous nuclear energy. This is no better than a cloudy or windstill day, but this fact is never mentioned. Read here
Climate Change
Roz Pidcock – Decarbonisation is Getting Cheaper. Why?
Some good news for once: Efforts to tackle climate change took a boost recently when the UK became the first major economy to set a legally-binding net-zero target. Cutting the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by […]
Climate Change
James Boyce – Keeping the Oil in the Soil
The central goal of any serious climate policy is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how. James Boyce is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst Cross-posted from the Institute […]
Climate Change
Steve Keen – Using Energy to Measure Economic Output, Not Prices
Since the mid-20th century, economic growth has become a sort of Holy Grail for measuring how economies are doing. But there are real problems using this method as it ignores increasing inequality and worsening environmental […]
Climate Change
DeSmog UK – Creative Carbon Accounting: How Industry and Government Make Burning Wood Look Like a Climate Solution
We are confronted with a climate disaster and the only answers we are receiving from the political class are scams enriching international corporations and meaningless declarations “climate emergencies”. Here still another example. By Alex Varley-Winter […]