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Because apparently we can't have a website anymore without a blog
The blah-blah-blog
Actually, I post a lot of information related to climate change almost daily elsewhere.
But, as time permits, I'm going to put the esoterica I encounter related to climate change
here rather than trying to update the various pages. So this will be reverse in chronological rather
than logically organized within the structure of the rest of this website. Please don't
rely on this as a consistent and current source for climate change information updates.
Sadly, we cannot rely on our corporate-controlled mass media for good information on this.
I update this site on my own time, and making a living has to take priority.
Past blog pages: May 2019 June 2019
July 2019 August 2019
September 2019 October 2019
November 2019 December 2019
January 2020 February 2020
The Ontario government just chose - again - to use the COVID-19 health emergency to hammer home
its neo-liberal economic agenda. This time it's the removal of ALL environmental oversight rules. Period.
Not in any way limited to COVID-19-related issues. The Ontario NDP opposition abdicated its role by
totally caving in on this.
Just a reminder that this is the reason the fossil-fuel industries are dying - because zero-GHG renewable energy
is now cheaper than subsidized fossil fuels. Not because we want cleaner air and water or a survivable planet.
Because renewables are less expensive than toxic, carcinogenic, GHG-emitting fossil fuels. It's not about COVID-19.
The oil industry was going off a cliff before COVID-19 became a factor in Europe and North America, because driving
an electric car costs less - today - with lower gasoline prices due to COVID-19 and the Russia-Saudi price war - than a
gasoline or diesel car. Big electric trucks and ships are coming. Airliners can run on bio-jet-fuel. The current
Russia-Saudi price war isn't a cause of the collapsing oil industry, it's a result of the collapsing oil industry.
Coal's all but finished. Oil's in huge trouble despite massive taxpayer subsidies. Natural gas demand is
evaporating in the face of renewables and increased energy efficiency. Dominoes.
2020.03.11 -
WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019 (World Meteorological Organization - WMO)
"The results of this report demonstrate that climate change is already very visible in various ways.
More ambitious climate mitigation efforts are needed to keep the warming below 2 °C by the end of the century."
Global emissions down by 2% amid mild winter and reduced use of coal-fired power plants
Heartland Insitute no longer needed by fossil-fuel lobby while Trump is President?
This isn't big news to anyone who has been paying attention. The news here is that this truth
is now appearing in Forbes, long a channel for pro-fossil-fuel climate-change-denialism rhetoric.
It's a shift, but it's still not action.
Dominoes. It isn't about uncertainty in public resistance or government environmental assessment
processes which are causing Berkshire Hathaway to pull out of this project. It is the certainty that
the market for LNG is shrinking worldwide as climate change is forcing a shift away from carbon fuels
in general, and the energy intensity and high up-front capital costs of LNG, and growing awareness
of the impact of fugitive natural gas emissions which are making the sector financially unviable.
More disinformation bites the dust. Not the first strike-out for Valentina Zharkova.
Past blog pages: May 2019 June 2019
July 2019 August 2019
September 2019 October 2019
November 2019 December 2019
January 2020 February 2020
You can find many earlier postings (going back to year 2000) related to climate change at:
Keith's List Archive and
the Sustainable Biofuel List Mail Archive.
I present a lot of information in this blog and on this website. If you need some help sorting through the
noise level and getting a forward-looking, proactive approach to climate change for your business, I can do
that work for you via my consulting business. Contact
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