BP is selling what it once called its “Jewel in the Crown”, its Alaskan operations. But it leaves a toxic legacy..
climate change impacts
Deeply destructive & catastrophic Hurricane Dorian reflects our “climate emergency”
How much trouble do we need to be in, before we admit we are in trouble?
World’s Largest Fund Manager Loses $90 Billion Betting on Fossil Fuels & Climate Chaos
BlackRock is the world’s largest fund manager, which has nearly US$6.5 trillion of assets under management. BlackRock may be wealthy, but that does not make it wise.
Temperature records are being shattered, so why do we still drill?
“What we describe as a record heat-wave in a few decades, we will simply call that summer. A typical summer’s day will be like the most extreme day we have seen in our lifetimes, at this point.”
Meet Boris, the UK’s Climate-Denying New Prime Minister & “Donald Trump of Britain”
No wonder Trump and the Republicans are excited at Boris Johnson becoming the UK Prime Minister. He is one of their own. He is cut from the same cloth. He is a climate denier.
A letter to the future from a glacier that is no more
As our climate emergency deepens, as the once great Arctic icescapes melt before our eyes, and once majestic glaciers break up and melt and disappear, we are left to put plaques in their place to lament our lost world.
“Life threatening” Tropical Storm Barry is “exactly a climate change story”
Is history about to repeat itself? Fourteen years after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans and the coast of Louisiana, the region is bracing itself for Tropical Storm Barry.
Sleep-Walking into “Mass Extinction”
“If we push the Earth system too far, then it takes over and determines its own response—past that point there will be little we can do about it.”
Trump touts “environmental leadership” as extreme weather hits DC
Trump’s talk is entitled “America’s Environmental Leadership”, despite the fact that his Administration has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, denies the climate crisis, promotes fossil fuels at all costs, and is gutting dozens upon dozens of environmental regulations.
OPEC warns climate campaigners are “greatest threat to our industry going forward.”
OPEC concedes that climate campaigners are “perhaps the greatest threat to our industry going forward”.