March 9 BY PATRICK HYNES: Germany, which just appointed the head of Greenpeace as its climate czar, has been the world’s most ambitious adopter of this radical approach. Patrick Hynes is the editorial associate with the American Conservation Coalition and a commentator with Young Voices. He also serves as the chair of the Libertarian Party of Washington, D.C.
Greenpeace Sverige: Rysslands krig mot Ukraina har satt fart på debatten om beroendet av fossila bränslen och behovet av en grön omställning i Europa. Här ger vi svar på fem frågor om energiförsörjning i skenet av kriget.
Article in the Intercept 15 Sept, 2019, features Rabindranath Tagore and Neta Craword's (Boston university) study "Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War"
Neta C. Crawford1 Boston University
U.S. Military has left its toxic legacy throughout the world in the form of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange and lead
Narrated by esteemed actor Emma Thompson, the documentary "The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science" reveals how the Koch Brothers have used their vast wealth to ensure the American political system takes no action on climate change, and are attempting to buy the 2016 Congressional elections
Quoted by Nafeez Ahmad, Dec 2012: Indeed, Business Insider reports that far from being profitable, the shale gas industry is facing huge financial hurdles. "The economics of fracking are horrid", observes US financial journalist Wolf Richter. "Production falls off a cliff from day one and continues for a year or so until it levels out at about 10 per cent of initial production." The result is that "drilling is destroying capital at an astonishing rate, and drillers are left with a mountain of debt just when decline rates are starting to wreak their havoc. To keep the decline rates from mucking up income statements, companies had to drill more and more, with new wells making up for the declining production of old wells. Alas, the scheme hit a wall, namely reality."
future scarcities, wave of extinctions, supply bottlenecks a tidal wave of unrest the breakdown of social order a tsunami of disaster "In March, for the first time, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper listed “competition and scarcity involving natural resources” as a national security threat on a par with global terrorism, cyberwar, and nuclear proliferation... There was a new phrase embedded in his comments: “resource shocks.” "
Shale Gas and its Implications reviews estimates that have been made for shale gas deposits in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, South Africa and the Western Sahara and highlights the challenges to their development. In a foreword to the report, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, affirms the Bank’s willingness to support these and any other member countries and sub-regions that have shale gas prospects
13.9.2013 GP Pär Düsing Stena Polaris tar vägen över Nordostpassagen när en last med nafta ska fraktas till Sydkorea och nya samarbetspartnern Hyundai Glovis. Vinsten är 13 dagar kortare resa. Stena Bulk och sydkoreanska Hyundai Glovis, som är shippingdelen inom Hyundai-gruppen, har skrivit ett långsiktigt samarbetsavtal om frakter som startar med att Stena Polaris på söndag lämnar Finska Viken med en last av nafta.
This summer 2008 ETH Zurich researchers studied the natural balance of methane in the arctic permafrost soils of the Lena Delta in Russia – research under adverse condition