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  • Big Oil Is Gaslighting the World

    The hosting of the recent COP28 climate summit by the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s leading petroleum exporters, exemplified exactly this puffery and, sadly enough, it’s just one instance of this greenwashing world of ours. Everywhere you look, you’ll note other versions, but it certainly was a classic example. Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed…

  • National Futures In The Age of China & Collapse

    Overall we are moving into a period like that from 1914 to 45 or any other major power reset: the old power is falling, the new power has risen. America was actually ahead of Britain by 1890, and it took quite a while for the British to fall, but this isn’t an exact analogy, because in…

  • Larry Fink’s Big Climate Lie

    Money is gonna do money things… it gives zero fucks about other factors. In early December, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment company, announced BlackRock was going all in on crypto currencies, helping revitalize interest in the dwindling, fossil fuel-heavy industry. This otherwise routine business story is noteworthy for one important reason: Three…

  • Billions in funding pouring into facilities for sucking carbon from atmosphere

    You can’t solve new problems with old thinking Carbon capture also means it’s just business as usual for fossil fuel companies, whose so-called carbon mitigation efforts are being incentivized by various world governments. And business as usual ain’t gonna cut it in the fight to combat climate change. https://futurism.com/the-byte/billions-facilities-carbon-removal

  • Look closely, and you’ll find America’s ‘climate abandonment areas’

    More than 16 million people in the contiguous US — roughly 5 percent of the population — live in a place with heightening flood risk and a shrinking population, according to new research. It makes the case that “climate abandonment areas” are becoming a more prevalent phenomenon in the US as people avoid places particularly…

  • Renewables cover 52% of Germany’s electricity needs in 2023

    Renewables will cover 52% of Germany’s total electricity needs in 2023 — a five percentage point increase from the year before, according to preliminary calculations by solar and hydrogen research group ZSW and energy industry association BDEW.

  • An ambitious vision for rewilding New Zealand

    Native forests cover about 29% of New Zealand’s landmass, but once extended across as much as 85% of the country. A new proposal to “recloak” Papatūānuku by restoring 2.1 million hectares to healthy indigenous forest over 10 years seeks to create an “enduring carbon sink” that boosts biodiversity and enhances landscape resilience at the same…

  • COP28 climate summit exposes the dead end of fighting climate change under capitalism

    Old approaches to new problems generally fail… the world is failing the requisite variety test on this one. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/15/ertd-d15.html

  • This new ‘world’s largest’ wind turbine makes power in severe typhoons

    It’s meant to be deployed in medium to high wind-speed regions and is particularly suitable for typhoon-prone sites. It comes equipped with active anti-typhoon technology capable of withstanding Category 17 typhoons (56.1-61.2 m/s), the most severe typhoon level. The massive wind turbine offers flexible power ratings ranging from 18.X to 20 MW and rotor diameters…

  • Scientists Warn That the Dubai Climate Conference Is Full of Crap

    Every step of prevarication is a step closer to guillotines #justsayin For the past two weeks, the world’s best and brightest have been meeting in Dubai — under a glittering, color-changing dome built to resemble Islamic geometric art — as the petrostate hosts the United Nations’ latest climate change conference. And experts are calling bull. In interviews with The…