CLIMATE

CLIMATE - Refreezing the Arctic sounds like a crazed impossible idea, but a knowledgeable group of scientists believe it has the potential to be the best most efficient quickest way to reduce manifold risks of a climate system that’s already in shaky condition. 

CLIMATE WATCH - Headlines describing the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties (COP) of UNFCCC more commonly referred to as COP27 at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt sent troubling messages:

CLIMATE WATCH - The catastrophic chain of events that water and power authorities are working to prepare for amid the desertification of the Colorado River basin would amount to a "complete doomsday scenario," harming water and electricity supplies for millions, according to new reporting from The Washington Post.

CLIMATE WATCH - What is it about a bunch of high-ranking people getting together at a Conference of the Parties (COP) at some major metropolitan center with plenty of 4-star and 5-star hotels in order to figure out how to save the planet, but it never works! 

CLIMATE CHANGE - Researchers documented 13 never-before-seen viruses that have been lying dormant, frozen in thick ice, over tens of thousands of years. 

CLIMATE WATCH - The hyperthreat is a combination of impending ecological carnage influenced in large measure by hidden behind-the-scenes human forces that drain the vigor and lifeblood of reasonable solutions. 

CLIMATE WATCH - Fossil fuel interests have taken over climate talks. The acronym COP for “Conference of the Parties” should be changed to “Continue Oil Production.”

CLIMATE WATCH - A new study finds Greenland’s ice sheet thinning much further into the ice sheet core than previously thought, 100 miles inland.

CA ENERGY - Despite Newsom’s statewide policy decisions that are driving up costs of energy in the state, only a few Californians are upset with the ever-increasing costs for their electricity and gasoline,

CLIMATE WATCH - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued a new Living Amazon Report, 2022 at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

ECOSYSTEM - Worldwide, eleven thousand (11,000) sharks will be killed within the next 60 minutes. That’s 180 sharks per minute; it’s a bloody affair. 

CLIMATE WATCH -  - The electoral defeat of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is a triumph for everyone who is concerned about the peril of climate change.

CLIMATE WATCH - Dateline: November 7-18, 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dignitaries from every country will be meeting to discuss climate change at COP27. Based upon early confirmations, 90 heads of state will attend, lending an aura of importance.

CLIMATE WATCH - A fresh approach to fixing climate change/global warming is outlined in a new book: Climate Restoration, which focuses on how the climate can be restored.

CLIMATE - The Southern Ocean is 10% of the world’s oceans.

ENERGY - Imagine the impact of a United States white-glove clean power system with costs benefits to individual homeowners in a Virtual Power Plant network (VPP) extending coast-to-coast with every household, en mass, involved in electrical power generation for the entire nation.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - The soul of America has been lost in a government awash in dark money with armies of lobbyists to spread it around. 

CLIMATE WATCH - A mysterious uptick in atmospheric methane (CH4) was first detected 15 years ago.

OPEC SETBACK - In a major blow to President Joe Biden, on Wednesday, OPEC+ took steps toward cutting the oil production of the members by 2 million barrels a day.

ENVIRONMENT - According to the Marine Stewardship Council, depletion of fish stocks is the most urgent threat to the world’s oceans. 

CLIMATE ACTION - The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) constitutes the boldest climate action so far by the American federal government.

Hollywood’s most powerful climate change activist has invested a material amount of capital in Struck Capital's latest investment vehicle.

CLIMATE WATCH - In 1988 climatologist James Hansen announced, “Global warming has arrived.”

CLIMATE CHANGE - This article addresses the most current research on sea level rise, as well as adaptation measures being taken around the world. Of special interest, brilliant adaptation measures are taking place in the face of higher seas. 

CLIMATE WATCH - For decades, humanity has been warned about the perils of the coming climate crisis caused by human activity. 

CLIMATE WATCH - Our worldhome is critically ill and on fire, but the politicians and economically powerful are fluffing about with rockets, gleefully banning abortion, spending US $932 billion on new oil and gas fields, and goofing around with carbon trading, as though our living conditions and survival were a leisurely card game.