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Tag Archives: fossil fuels
Datacenters, bitcoin mining energy use: hits availability of electricity and raises costs steeply
Paul Krugman writes today on Substack: Placing tech companies in Pentagon: On June 13, 2025, the Army will officially swear in four tech leaders. Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve … Continue reading
Ukraine ‘on the menu’ ?
From a Ukrainian viewpoint, Lev Parnas writes (on Substack); And I ask: Is a newly broken America on the Putin menu too?
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Tagged broken America. mob, conflict, corruption, Europe, fossil fuels, gangsterism, petro-funds, tariff- game, ukraine, war
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Technological progress could have saved the planet
I never knew, until I read Kara Swisher’s ‘Burn Book’, that Al Gore, when senator of Tennessee, played a key role which birthed the Internet. As a senator from Tennessee, Gore crafted and pushed through the “High Performance Computing and … Continue reading
Phase out fossil fuels: no choice
I’m reproducing The Conversation newsletter which was emailed to me. It is a response to Tony Blair’s recent advice to not phase out fossil fuels with the Net Zero objective:
Al Gore, his speech at Climate Week
April 2025, Climate Week, 77 year old Al Gore gave this speech which you can also see and hear on YouTube. Thanks to Robert Reich for reproducing this speech on Substack. It is abundantly clear, after only three months and … Continue reading
Follow the Oil Pipelines
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans have never achieved parity with West German wealth generation. Disgruntled East Germans have raised the profile of right wing AfD political beliefs. Initially, the AfD distanced itself from far-right parties in … Continue reading
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Tagged AfD, climate change, dependency, fossil fuels, gas, germany, negotiations, oil, pipelines, power, refineries for sale, right wing, Russia, ukraine, war machine
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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
As fierce and unprecedented wildfires bring calamity to thousands of people, thousands of gallons of toxic retardant are dropped from special air tankers on the racing fires below to try to stop the fires spreading to valuable property. And, as … Continue reading
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Tagged air tankers, building in resilience, building materials, climate change, community, drought, emissions warming climate, eucalyptus tree fire risk, fire resistant homes, first responders, forests, fossil fuels, freshwater, Grenfell Tower, groundwater, human habitation, human vulnerability, hurricane force winds, inferno, insurance nonsense, nature, opportunities, pacific, plastics, portugal, retardant drops, Santa Ana winds, soil, threats, tree burning emissions, warming oceans, weather patterns, wild space, wildfires, wildlife
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Farmers: regenerative farming and drought
Sicily has been applying regenerative farming under the SIC.A.RI.B Project: https://www.sicarib.it/en/the-project aims to improve the biological and physical quality of Sicilian agricultural soils, through the implementation and adaptation of conservative or ‘organic regenerative’ farming techniques and technologies (intercropping, minimum tillage, … Continue reading
Gulf of Mexico: fossil fuel supply from 1940s to present day
It seems ironic to see articles like this: https://www.marineinsight.com/know-more/major-oil-rigs-in-the-gulf-of-mexico and, knowing our refusal to move away from dependence on fossil fuels has increased ocean temperatures. We know the high temperatures of the water in the Gulf are causing the intensification … Continue reading
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Tagged best practise, climate change, displaced people, extreme weather, Florida, fossil fuels, gas, homelessness, Hunters Point, hurricane withstanding homes, meeting the needs, net zero living, no insurance, oil, poverty, profits from fossil fuel industry, responsibility of industry, victims, vulnerable people
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El Nino 2023 to 2024: Cocoa Beans, Chocolate shortage
El Niño—the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), our planet’s single largest natural source of year-to-year variations in seasonal climate—has been disrupting climate in the tropics and beyond since May 2023, likely contributing to many months of record-high global ocean temperatures, … Continue reading
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