Observational data finds a 90-fold-increase in heat and rainfall extremes in the past ten years
The 26th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-26), scheduled to open on 10/31/21 in Glasgow, Scotland. COP brings wealthy and developing nations together to...
Climate Brief: Economic collapse is bearing down on us
Prices are going to rise, probably exponentially, over the next few decades. The reason for that's simple: everything, more or less, has been artificially cheap. The costs...
Energy cannibalism is happening so fast that the collapse of the oil industry will derail renewables
There’s no time to lose. The new research led by the French team confirms that whether we like it or not, human civilisation is in...
President Biden ends talks with Republicans on infrastructure as he did not fall for their con
Schumer Says White House Talks with GOP on Infrastructure Hit 'a Brick Wall'. Politico reported: Bipartisan infrastructure talks between President Joe Biden and GOP Sen....
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Cheney Is Exposing the GOP as Liars, and They Can't Allow That [Update: WH Weighs In]
We’re seeing more and more stories that Liz Cheney is about to be tossed under the bus, that the Republican “leadership” is so in thrall...
Charlie McCarthy's cousin Kevin bailed on colleague during the Insurrection
Armed with a civil war sword, Bruce Westerman (R-AR) crouched on a commode, ready for a last stand because the lost cause insurrectionists were crashing and...
Minerva @ Midnight: tragedy versus cynicism because Tucker Carlson calls mask-wearing child abuse
Peak cynicism has arrived. Tucker Carlson pimps a version of the nanny-state with more police confrontations because he thinks cops should stop children from wearing...
OR-Sen: Sen. Wyden (D) Keeps Up The Pressure On Senate & White House On Marijuana Legalization
Received this e-mail today from Finance Committee Chairman, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden’s (D. OR) re-election campaign: xIt’s past time to end the federal prohibition of...
Lindsey Graham fesses up that the climate crisis is real after all.
One of the more despicable senators in the US Senate now acknowledges that climate change is real after four years of kissing Trump’s ass as...
Minerva @ Midnight: prosecuting the previous guy, former FedEx employee kills 8, plus Freedom Flies
Do we really have the will to prosecute Trump for anything? Or will he escape yet again because he’ll try to bargain his way out...
CO2 data from Mauna Loa above 421.21 ppm up from 415.6 a year ago and 393.88 just 10 years ago.
Saturday was the first day that CO2 measured in the atmosphere was above 420 ppm since measurements began in the 1950s. This moment in time has...
Minerva @ Midnight: April Fools – Baylor U. conservatives think slavery was good
Change as a rising tide seems to be falling short as history’s stream is not as mighty. Apparently slavery is still “ordained by God for ultimate...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences
Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental costs of carbon markets far...
Minerva @ Midnight: fungible space and fungible time
The stuck ship does tell us something about the fragility of global trade and the flow of capital. Fungible Space Logistics, that concept popularized by...
The Daily Bucket–All-Union and Carbon free Energy Source Project proposed for SW Washington
Rye Development is proposing a massive pumped storage power plant uphill from the site of the closed Goldendale smelter, next to the Columbia River. This facility will...
Just one more reason Ron Johnson is too stupid to be in Congress
He’s not the only one, of course. For instance, I’m convinced Matt Gaetz has the largest head-to-brain-size ratio in the animal kingdom and that Louie Gohmert...
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology
The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in...
I don't need lectures from Billionaires about climate change.
In particular Bill Gates pontifications under his label of the “Good Billionaire”. Yes he does keep to the science in a way, but please stop...
Ecologists warn of a lethal, ghastly future, and they insist we stop sugarcoating it.
"In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous." ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is...
'Princess Bride' actor unleashes his inner Dread Pirate Roberts on Sen. Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz and I share exactly two things in common. We both convert oxygen to carbon dioxide and we both love The Princess Bride. I’m not happy...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization
As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by neoliberal financialization. An earlier...
“uber-capitalism” in a neoliberal market of revenant bears tiptoeing through tulips
https://twitter.com/jmcunning/status/1354805635787853825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/MichaelHeide/status/1354511827607183373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Bear Raid is not an offensive formation now at Mississippi State, but rather capital formation of a fictitious nature. Killing one bear because...
Siberia's peat climate bomb is burning despite minus fifty-eight degree Fahrenheit temperatures.
I keep vigil. Last summer, record-breaking wildfires in Siberia, “in and around the Arctic circle,” continue to smolder and burn; the fuel feeding the fires is peat,...
Suffragist Eunice Foote was first to describe the greenhouse gas effect- a man got the credit.
Eunice Foote was born in NY state in 1819. She had gone to university at the Troy Female Seminary (N/K/A Emma Willard School), where she was encouraged to...
The Hague may indict Jair Bolsonaro over ecocide and crimes against humanity.
“Pena que a cavalaria brasileira não tenha sido tão eficiente quanto a americana, que exterminou os índios” “It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t...
A new study finds that Earth's temperature rise will reach the tipping point in two to three decades
We were warned, now a new study has determined that the Earth’s plants' ability to sequester carbon emissions through photosynthesis will be halved by the 2030s or...
A new study finds that Earth's temperature rise will reach the tipping point in one to three decades
We were warned, now a new study has determined that the Earth’s plants' ability to sequester carbon emissions through photosynthesis will be halved by the 2030s or...
Trump’s trashing of the climate is more severe than previously thought, says Biden climate team.
A senior Biden climate team transition official alerted E&E News that the damage Trump and his fossil fuel grifters (that have held power over the agencies...
“Marty, you're not thinking four-dimensionally”
M-i-c-k-e-y, Why because we like it. M-M-MMT. “We collectively decide just what counts as a resource, economic base, or productive work.” OTOH, it could all...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on...
Exxon's Green Sheen and asymmetric information (and media bias)
Is the Market for Lemons like the market for lemonade or even Don Lemon. Asymmetric information is everywhere, the example of the used-car salesman synonymous...
Trump golf resort joins liberals' War on Christmas, wishes everyone 'Happy Holidays'
I have to admit, I always forget about my War on Christmas obligations — which include buying the “Fuck Christmas!” cookies and hanging mistletoe over the...
former MI governor Granholm tapped as Energy head
Unlike one of her predecessors, who had numerous connections to the Trump impeachment and its hinky relations with the Russian oligarchs, Jennifer Granholm will combine...
Tom Vilsack led USDA for both terms of the Obama administration. He's back.
Tom Vilsack returns to the position he held during the Obama administration at USDA. Why hasn’t the pandemic compelled a rethinking of factory farming. Changing...
US Appeals Court rejects Trump's attempt to create a dead zone in the Beaufort Sea.
Donald Trump has been plotting to screw our climate and kill off the diversity of life for four years. This isn’t hyperbole; he has devasted critical...
2020 one of the 3 warmest years on record despite a La Niña typically producing lower temperatures.
We will remember 2020 as the good old days as the climate continues to overheat due to our failure to rein in heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions....
Biden may pull the Amazon back from the tipping point; Hague considers climate crimes at the ICC.
“Until now, Donald Trump served as a support for the Brazilian president to act irresponsibly. Now with the U.S. adding to Europe’s pressure, Brazil is...
Oh no, she didn't.
This is remarkable. Ivanka tweets some gobbledygook about how daddy has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 10 percent last year. This is a lie; the...
Siberia's Laptev and Kara sub-sea methane activated.
“It’s gotten so out of whack that we are now looking at survival for our children, not survival of our grandchildren.”, Peter Carter, M.D., – reviewer for...
Laptev and East Siberian sub-sea methane activated.
“It’s gotten so out of whack that we are now looking at survival for our children, not survival of our grandchildren.”, Peter Carter, M.D., – reviewer for...
Despite McConnell and a hostile Supreme Court, Joe Biden will be known as the climate president.
The crises facing the country are severe — from a pandemic to an economic recession, climate change to racial injustice — and the transition team...
Trump is already telegraphing his attempted coup
My hope is that victory is so risibly out of reach for the odious squash rind on election night that he dissolves into a cloud...
Arctic sea ice nursery in the Laptev Sea has not frozen. Buttigieg: “There's no do-over on climate.”
If we lose the Arctic, we lose the whole world. President Niinistö of Finland There is a record open ocean in the Arctic as a delayed freeze...
The Biden/Harris climate plan just may buy us time to prevent the worst impacts.
If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze...
Climate fires have tipped us into a new era – the age of embers.
Yale Environment 360 notes "just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a tipping point which will lead to a largely ice-free Arctic...
'Extinction denial' is the new thing for anti-science conspiracy theorists, warn Biologists.
"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind." William Shakespeare The evil of science deniers recently has been beyond the pale. Not content with killing...
ME-Sen: Slate Magazine, “How Maine Turned on Susan Collins (R)”
Slate Magazine has a new piece out about the upcoming U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. ME) and Maine House Speaker...
Sixty percent of Antarctica's nation-sized glacier plugs are vulnerable to fracture and collapse.
"Oh yes Sapiens, you hungry little monkey, it's all about you" comment via Greenland Ice Sheet — Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario,...
The Daily Bucket–Frog Court Confidential
I’m Red Woodman, Senior Investigator for what we call the “Frog Court.” If I can just get through today, I can retire with a pension. But...
Physicists find deforestation has 90% chance of causing irreparable catastrophic societal collapse.
Human consumption and climate change have sent humanity on a steep, dangerous, and deadly spiral spin toward a “catastrophic collapse” warn researchers. The dire warning is published...