“… One of the main barriers is the rise of anti-intellectualism and populist politics. Often aligned with unregulated capitalism …”
Category: Opinion
Can PR Rehabilitate Big Tech’s Dirty AI Carbon Splurge?
Will anyone still believe big tech claims they care about the environment?
New Scientist: “We could get most metals for clean energy without opening new mines”
“… most mines don’t know exactly what they are tossing out …”
Jakarta Post: Coal Plants Need to Stop Outcompeting Renewables
“… market forces are stacked against renewables as long as there is excess supply of power, mostly from coal, in the Java-Bali power grid. …”
Net Zero Rebellion Growing in Australia
Three state branches of Australia’s main opposition party have voted to dump Net Zero.
WHO Warns Global Warming is Causing Dangerous Heat Stress
If only there was a way to avoid dangerous daytime temperature extremes.
Guardian: “A climate of unparalleled malevolence”: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
Apparently our pitiful atmospheric contribution is comparable to the 2 million year eruption which drove the Permian–Triassic Extinction, which wiped out most life on Earth.
Newsom Begs Oil Producers not to Abandon California
Don’t they realise $8 / gallon pump price in California could torpedo Newsom’s presidential ambitions?
Claim: Emissions Reduction Should be Included in Productivity Growth Calculations
“… standard productivity measures ignore the progress that some economies have made in terms of lowering carbon dioxide emissions …”
Desperate Greens Look to Apple for Climate Leadership
“… If Cook were to publish an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal pointing out that climate has become a business risk … it would change the corporate game. …”
“No Country is Safe”: 93F Finland Heatwave Fills Hospitals
Who will save the Fins from an unexpected outbreak of beach weather?
BBC: Feeding your Toddler Vegetables Protects them from Climate Change
“… tells me he only likes eggs, fish fingers and pancakes …”
UK Government: “Delete Old Emails” to Combat Climate Change and Drought
Spending tax money on reservoirs instead of renewables might have been more effective.
Popular Mechanics Unhinged: “Scientists Are Mapping the End of the World”
But we can save the world by reducing meat consumption.
China Daily: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will Allow Chinese Companies to Dominate Renewable Energy
In the parallel universe of Nick Robbins and the Grantham Institute, business opportunities require massive state subsidies.
Oxford Lecturer: Authoritarian China is less susceptible to petroleum-obsessed dogma
They teach our kids – another green attack on Democracy, this time from University of Oxford Professor Stephen Lezak.
Chinese Media: AI Investment Should be Diverted to Climate Action
“… Trillions of dollars of bubble-inflating equity investment continue to pour into tech stocks while critical areas … such as climate change alleviation continue to go underfunded. …”
Texas Deserves Better Than Bloomberg’s Climate Fearmongering
Texans deserve honest debate, not moral panic. We deserve respect for our ingenuity and self-reliance, not condescension from a billionaire who has spent years demonizing the fuels that keep this…