Tag: Climate
President Joe Biden Will “Make or Break” the UN Climate Conference – Mother Jones
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Less than a week out from COP26, the UN Climate Change conference, the United States has yet to develop a solid plan to rein in climate change. Opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia senator with deep ties to energy industries, has stripped the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP) from the Democrats’ spending bill, removing
Capital Letter: Energy, Climate Policy, and Inflation
The week of October 11: a grim cocktail (an energy crunch, inflation, and a supply-chain mess) and much, much more.
Sooner or later, I will have to write something more detailed about the supply-chain mess, but for now, please note what NR’s Dominic Pino has been writing on the subject (see below). I’ll just note one early concern
Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Solution to Our Climate Crisis? – Mother Jones
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In British Columbia, there’s a little valley where the Squamish River snakes down past the cliffs of the Malamute, a popular hiking spot. The hills in all directions are, like much of BC, thickly forested with firs. And nestled in that valley is a newfangled industrial plant that aims to replicate what those millions of trees do: suck carbon dioxide out
A Fundamental Millstone: Climate Policy and the Energy Crunch
The week of October 4: a higher debt ceiling, higher energy prices, spending, American banking with Chinese characteristics and much, much more.
So, where were we? I was just getting ready to write about the debt ceiling (and, I suppose “the coin”), but the day was saved, if only for a few weeks, by the agreement to raise the debt limit by enough to see the country through until
Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?
The doubters weren’t simply killjoys—they were imaginative thinkers who had devoted decades of their lives to fusion research. It wouldn’t be easy to make H.T.S. into a magnet of sufficient size. And the powerful magnetic field created by H.T.S. was sure to have consequences, which hadn’t been fully studied. There was every reason in the history of experimental science to expect surprises. And funding for fusion projects was already tight; another idea might draw money away from projects that many
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European Energy Crunch Spreads, but Climate Campaigners Press On
The week of September 27: oil, gas, coal, climate, taxation, spending, a nod to the Reichenbach Falls, the contradictions within the Biden administration, and much, much more.
After three weeks in which significant portions of the Capital Letter have been focused on the growing energy crunch in Europe, I was
EU-Prüfer, CAP (in)action on Climate Change – EURACTIV.com
Diese Woche hat EURACTIV mit Jindrich Dolezal vom Europäischen Rechnungshof über ihren jüngsten Bericht gesprochen, in dem die EU-Agrarfinanzierung für den Klimaschutz in Höhe von insgesamt 100 Mrd .
Rice feeds half the world. Climate change’s droughts and floods put it at risk
Under a midday summer sun in California’s Sacramento Valley, rice farmer Peter Rystrom walks across a dusty, barren plot of land, parched soil crunching beneath each step.
In a typical year, he’d be sloshing through inches of water amid lush, green rice plants. But today the soil lies naked and baking in the 35˚ Celsius (95˚ Fahrenheit) heat during a devastating drought that has hit most of the western United States. The drought started in early 2020, and conditions have
The Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change
Miley Cyrus vowed not to have a baby on a “piece-of-shit planet.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mused in an Instagram video about whether it’s still okay to have children. Polls suggest that a third or more of Americans younger than 45 either don’t have children or expect to have fewer than they might otherwise because they are worried about climate change. Millennials and Gen Z are not the first generations to face the potential of imminent, catastrophic, irreversible change to the