Subscribe to Updates
Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.
Author: cne4h
Aluminum is crucial for many everyday products – but at what environmental cost? »Yale Climate Connection
Transcript: Aluminum is not only found in soda and beer cans. The material is used in all kinds of substances – from cell phones and solar panels to electric cars and aircraft. Demand for many of these products is growing rapidly. “So, demand here in the United States is increasing not only but globally, which adds up to a small amount of aluminum.” Annie Sartor works with hard-working labs, a organization dedicated to reducing the climate impact of aluminum and other industrial materials. She said aluminum production requires a lot of electricity. In places like China, more than half of…
from masterresource Robert Bradley Jr. “It sounds like the police officers are losing when calling up the thought police. And they yes fail. ” A new international group, Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), advertises itself as a police officer with “misinformation and false information about climate change.” We are a global alliance of over 50 well-known climate and anti-division organizations calling for decisive, unified action on a wide range of climate misinformation and disinformation. Why? CAAD continues: Misinformation and disinformation of climate change can cause distorted views of climate science and solutions; at the same time, they weaken effective domestic…
It is a difficult task to establish a new climate-friendly coalition government for Germany – what about Watt?
By P Gosselin By Klimanachrichten The German parliamentary elections have been decided, and now it all has to do with possible alliance plans. It seems certainly that the link between the economy and the climate will be eliminated. It was introduced for Robert Habeck (Green Party), and until recently it was a paradise for friends and partners of green politicians. Can numerous NGOs (some of which have links to Habeck’s ministry) count on the huge contributions from the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the future? Münchener Merkur named some possible constellations for the next government. Friedrich Merz plans to fill…
From cfact David Wojick The president argues for new control over so-called independent federal agencies in the Executive Order (EO). About 100 of them have huge regulatory authority. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is particularly interesting. The main task of FERC is to maintain the reliability of the U.S. power grid. The task obviously failed because the mesh became unreliable. The question is, will the president use his power to lead the FERC to restore reliability? He might do several ways, briefly discussed below. But first, there is a deeper question to be kept in mind, which is the…
If the world follows Trump's climate leadership, Australia will have more beach weather – what about Watt?
Eric Worrall's paper They actually say “extremely high temperatures”, but what else do you do in hot weather? From Drill to Grill: Continuous fossil fuel use has brought us all into the hottest The Climate Commission warns that Australia's largest cities could face dangerous hot temperatures unless action is taken to mitigate climate change. The commission released a “heat map” which also suggests that continuing to cut climate pollution can protect Australians from soaring temperatures. “The inflation crisis is caused by a lot of overspending and rising energy prices. That's why today I will also announce a national energy emergency.…
House Republicans are seeking to prevent the use of taxpayers’ money to inspire what they call “green energy fools” on agricultural land, citing that subsidies could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade. [emphasis, links added] Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis). The bill, titled the Future Agricultural Retention and Management Act (FARM), will not prevent developers from building wind turbines or solar panels, but rather End the use of federal funds to encourage such projects. “The taxpayer’s money should not be used to sacrifice green spaces,” Tiffany told Fox News in a statement. “The Farm Act ends…
Recent paid articles New York Times (NYT) titled “Coffee price is 50 years. Producers are not celebrating. This is not what is in the data. [emphasis, links added] Coffee production data show that over time, data on coffee production have grown steadily, although and possibly partly attributed to carbon dioxide (CO2), and a slight warming in recent decades. Honduras, Brazil and Vietnam are the main regions mentioned in the New York Times. The New York Times claimed that the cost of producing coffee has increased due to a number of factors, including the cost of increasing fertilizer and “untimely rainfall…
What if the earth kept storing a lot of energy under our noses? This is a new study on scientific advances (December 13, 2024), and this is a provocative idea, Model prediction of global geological hydrogen resourcesby Geoffrey Ellis and Sarah E. Gelman. They propose that natural hydrogen (formed from deep geological processes) can divide today's proven natural gas reserves on a large scale. Before we begin to imagine a new golden age of energy, let’s unravel what this institute claims, nothing, and why it may be important to anyone who cares about actually effective energy. The researchers used mass…
As discussed in several recent articles here and here, the so-called carbon dioxide hazard discovery (EF) was an early (December 2009) EPA regulatory action by the Obama administration and currently lays the foundation for all government efforts to limit and curb the use of hydrocarbons in our economy. [emphasis, links added] In his first day of execution of orders (“Unlock U.S. Energy”), President Trump directs upcoming EPA administrators to submit within 30 days “Recommendations made to the Director of OMB regarding the legitimacy and ongoing applicability of the administrator's findings. ” Lee Zeldin was then confirmed and swore as an…