Earth Day: Explore what’s at risk of disappearing due to the climate crisis – CNN
Nowhere is safe from the climate crisis as it drives up temperatures and fuels extreme weather that devastates communities and pushes plant and animal species to the brink. The past eight years were the hottest on record. The growing concentration…
Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas? | Rebecca Solnit
If fossil fuel use and impact had suddenly appeared overnight, their catastrophic poisonousness and destructiveness would be obvious. But they have so incrementally become part of everyday life nearly everywhere on Earth that those impacts are largely accepted or ignored…
Carbon emissions from global SUV fleet outweighs that of most countries
The continued global rise in sales of SUVs pushed their climate-heating emissions to almost 1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency. The 330m sport utility vehicles on the roads produced emissions equivalent to the…
Biden Puts America First On Electric Cars, Freezing Out Western Allies
A trade war is brewing between the United States and its closest allies. When Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal markets commissioner, pulled out of a summit with US officials just before Christmas, he complained that the agenda ‘no longer gives…
Soaring Energy Costs Rendering Battery Plants Impractical, VW Warns
Investment in German and EU industrial projects such as battery-cell factories will be unfeasible if the region’s policymakers fail to control ballooning energy prices in the long term, the head of Volkswagen AG’s namesake brand said. “Unless we manage to…
The Electric Car Road Trip To Nowheresville
Countries are keen to out-virtue-signal each other with electric cars and their contribution to reducing Climate Change; what is plainly missing in the game is any concept as to how these goals can realistically be achieved. Following the Parliament’s recent…
Shellenberger: Climactivists Turn To Temper Tantrums As Primary Tactic
Dumping milk onto floors. Hurling food onto walls. Refusing to eat. Gluing body parts. Throwing paint. Refusing to leave. Threatening to pee and poop in your pants. Screaming accusations. Are those the behaviors of a toddler’s temper tantrum? Yes. But…
Eco-Nutters Glue Themselves To Floor In VW Showroom, Wail About No Toilets
Nine protesters in Germany have been left raging at the lack of toiletry facilities provided to them for the duration of their demonstration. The demonstrators, from the group Scientist Rebellion, have glued themselves to the floor in the Volkswagen factory…
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Global warming isn’t helped by the hot air of American pundits – Daily Mail
Big Oil v The World Rating: Train Truckers Rating: James Lovelock, the eccentric genius who first proposed the Gaia theory that Earth is a gigantic living organism, had the answer to climate change. A colossal parasol in space could deflect…
Farmer sues VW over climate change; German court has doubts – Daily Inter Lake
BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany cast doubt Friday on claims by a German farmer that automaker Volkswagen is partly responsible for the impact that global warming is having on his family business. The plaintiff, Ulf Allhoff-Cramer, claims drier…
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