By Amitabh Sinha | The Indian Express | November 19, 2015 While India has embarked on an ambitious renewable energy pathway, coal is likely to remain its primary source of energy for the next couple of decades at least. India will not agree to any proposal at the climate change negotiations that will seek to […]
By David Addison | Seeking Alpha | October 14, 2015 … Internationally, many oil and gas majors which need higher energy prices have rallied around the implementation of a carbon tax. Recently, managements of Total, Shell, BP, BG Group, Repsol, Eni, and other state-run firms called for a carbon tax at a climate change conference […]
Far from the expected development, forestry plantations and other carbon market initiatives in Uganda have severely compromised ecologies and livelihoods of the local people. By Kristen Lyons and Peter Westoby · The Conversation · September 19, 2015 In recent years there has been significant movement toward land acquisition in developing countries to establish forestry plantations […]
Crises ‘solutions’ to advance global agenda behind closed doors By Glen David Kuecker | teleSUR | October 2, 2015 Lana and Andy Wachowski’s classic 1999 film, “The Matrix”, introduced viewers to the wonderfully fascinating question of how systems of domination and control reproduce themselves. In the film, we learn that the matrix periodically re-boots itself. […]
“Global Goals” Is Lavishly-Funded Public Relations Endeavor “We the People” Never Voted For By James Tracy | Memory Hole | September 30, 2015 This month delegates to the United Nations ratified the so-called “Global Goals For Sustainable Development.” This will involve a radical, far-reaching social and economic transformation of everyday life that has been in […]
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | September 17, 2015 You have signed the death warrant for science. – Peter Webster In case you don’t know what RICO is (Wikipedia): The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides […]
By Dave Rutledge | Climate Etc. | August 10, 2015 On August 3, President Obama declared that “under the Clean Power Plan, by 2030, renewables will account for 28% of our capacity,” and “will save the average American family nearly $85 on their annual energy bill in 2030.” In the accompanying EPA rule, the word […]
Al-Manar | July 13, 2015 Oil prices fell in Asia on Monday as Iran and major western powers said they were closer than ever to a landmark nuclear deal that would lift sanctions and see Tehran’s crude exports return to global markets. A forecast by the International Energy Agency (IEA) for slower world oil demand […]
By Pierre L. Gosselin | NoTricksZone | May 5, 2015 The editor-in-chief of the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger und Zeitung (IKZ) daily Thomas Reunert dedicated an entire page on the topic of wind energy last Sunday, bearing the headline: “The Norwegians Are Giving Us The Finger!” It is an interview with a former professor from the University […]
Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Climate and Environment (CAGE) New source of methane discovered in the Arctic Ocean Methane, a highly effective greenhouse gas, is usually produced by decomposition of organic material, a complex process involving bacteria and microbes. But there is another type of methane that can appear under specific circumstances: Abiotic methane is […]
