The expected House Republican inquisition is upon us. It will involve a series of investigations of federal agencies, on issues such as covid guidance, global warming, “weaponization,” over-regulation...
Tag: Global Warming
The Southeast U.S. Could Hit 80 Deg F This Week
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – MARCH 26: A general view of The Battery Atlanta connected to Truist Park, home … [+] of the Atlanta Braves, on March 26, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Major League Baseball ...
COP27 Is Over, But Egypt’s Climate Struggles Are Just Beginning
A sunset over one of the three pyramids of Dashur in Egypt. (Photo by Barry Iverson/Getty Images) Getty Images Last month, the COP27 conference, which brings together leaders from across the world to ...
Rabbits Could Be The Next Climate Change Casualty
Rabbits in a cage. getty Climate change is already having detrimental effects on ecology and wildlife around the world, and these problems are likely to get worse in the years ahead. But there remains...
20,000 Died Amid Punishing Heatwaves And Record Temperatures Across Western Europe This Summer, Data Indicates
Topline Extreme heat was responsible for more than 20,000 deaths across western Europe this summer, official figures suggest, as the continent was battered by a series of punishing heatwaves and recor...
How the UN’s Global Climate Conference First Started
The Rio Earth Summit established the UNFCCC and began the COP process. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images This is the first article in a series exploring the global climate meetings, the Conference of the P...
Oil And Gas Profits Very High Once Again – What This Feels Like To Energy Consumers.
Oil wells in North Dakota. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Third quarter (Q3) profits have been released and, for oil and gas companies, the numbers are stunning. In Q2, bp made $8.45 billion dollars and...
David Malpass’s Proper Admission That He’s Not a Scientist Isn’t Enough for the Science-Reverent
In 2008 Nigel Lawson published An Appeal To Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming. The Tory radical who served as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer was promptly attacked for having the t...
Global Warming Will Fuel More Frequent, Severe And Longer-Lasting Droughts, Study Finds
Topline As much as the entire population in Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia and Ghana will be exposed to a severe drought lasting more than a year over a 30-year period if global temperatures rise by 3...
Energy Provisions In The Inflation Reduction Act
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) poses with lawmakers after signing the Inflation … [+] Reduction Act after the House of Representatives voted 220-207 to pass it at the US Capitol in ...
Methane Emissions Reduction At The Oil Patch: How To Get There
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar MCKITTRICK, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: The sun sets beyond pumpjacks in the Belridge oil field on … [+] November 03, 2021 near McKittrick, California. The ...
Flash Floods Swamp St. Louis In Latest Bout Of Extreme U.S. Weather
Topline Flash floods inundated St. Louis streets as the city broke the record for daily rainfall in just five hours Monday night, as the U.S. continues to experience extreme storms, heat, and fires th...
USPS To Boost Purchase Of Electric Delivery Vehicles
Topline The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said Wednesday it will dramatically increase the share of electric vehicles among a fleet of new delivery vehicles it’s ordering, following criticism from enviro...
U.K. Records Its Hottest Temperature Ever Amid Extreme Heatwave
Topline The U.K. recorded its hottest ever temperature on Tuesday, according to provisional Met Office figures, as the country faces a second day of extreme heat amid warnings of wildfires and reports...
Why The U.S. Can’t Curb The World’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions
HEBEI, CHINA – NOVEMBER 19: Smoke billows from smokestacks and a coal fired generator at a steel … [+] factory on November 19, 2015 in the industrial province of Hebei, China. China’...
Here’s The Latest Data On Climate And Food And It’s Not Good
Challenges abound as industrial agriculture is threatened by access to key resources from water to healthy soils. As a devastating and historic drought from Illinois to Texas to California grinds on, ...
AirCapture And 3D Systems Partner To Make Decarbonizing Our Atmosphere Profitable
The startup and its additive manufacturing partner are building systems that remove carbon dioxide … [+] from the atmosphere and make it into a profitable product. getty Typically, any discussio...
The Dust Bowl ‘Then’ – Climate Change ‘Now’ Argument Deconstructed
There is no doubt about it. Much of the United States is going to experience sweltering heat in the coming days as we transition to the summer season. NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center discussion said,...
Why Comic Books Could Be A Powerful Weapon In The Climate Fight
Comic artist Céline Keller explains complex climate problems – such as the Energy Charter Treaty – … [+] in graphic form. Céline Keller Climate experts are worried: the urgency of cl...
Europe’s Warm Embrace Of LNG Raises Methane Emissions Concerns
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 09: (EDITORS NOTE: Image was created using a variable planed lens.) The … [+] natural-gas fuelled Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte po...
And Suddenly, The Race For Carbon Capture Is On
carbon Anete Lusina The Covid-19 pandemic, combined with ominous signs of global warming, made 2020 and 2021 years of widespread anxiety. Many for the first time confronted the possibility that humani...
Maui’s Public Nuisance Climate Lawsuit
Over 1,300 climate lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. None has yet succeeded. That fact in and of itself should give pause. In countries where plaintiffs who lose lawsuits must pay the defendant’s l...
Greenhouse Gases Trapped Nearly 50% More Heat In 2021 Than 1990
Greenhouse gases are the “apples” in the climate warming apple pie. That statement is likely causing some puzzled looks. The overly-literal reader will continue to be puzzled, but hopefully, most read...
How Oil And Gas Is Being Affected By Climate Change – Response To A Presentation In Mid-America.
A pumpjack siphons oil in the foreground of a wind farm near Sweetwater, Texas. Corbis via Getty Images Independence, Kansas, is a small conservative town in the heart of the USA. The area produced oi...
How Net Zero Became Our Global Climate Goal And Why We Need It
The latest IPCC report is a grave warning from scientists about the health of the planet in the face … [+] of climate change. Future Publishing via Getty Images 2021 was the year net-zero commit...
Global Warming Alarmists On the Left, Meet the Birthrate Obsessed On the Right
It’s been said that the discovery of something as modernly primitive as coal resulted in major leaps for the typical worker. By one estimate, this form of theoretically “dirty energy” was the equivale...
Climate Change Worse Than Expected, UN Report Finds
Topline Human-driven climate change is already causing widespread devastation and the world has a “brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future,” according to the latest assessment of ...