Finally! Trump Admin is ‘listening to the science’ & seeks to rebut previous unscientific ‘extreme scenario’ National Climate Assessment
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/climate/michael-kuperberg-climate-assessment.html Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge of Assessing Climate Change Michael Kuperberg was told he would no longer oversee the National Climate Assessment. The job is expected to go to a climate-change skeptic, according to people familiar with the changes. The dismissal is a setback for the National Climate Assessment, a report that the […]
EPA chief: ‘Trump was right to leave Paris Climate Accords. We have done more to reduce our GHG emissions over the past four years than our international competitors’
https://twitter.com/EPAAWheeler/status/1325819947474358272 https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/greenhouse-gas-emissions-continue-decline-american-economy-flourishes-under-trump-0 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue to Decline as the American Economy Flourishes Under the Trump Administration 11/09/2020 Contact Information: EPA Press Office ([email protected]) WASHINGTON (November 9, 2020) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released 2019 greenhouse gas (GHG) data collected under the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). These data show that between 2018 and 2019 […]
The Great Reset: New Book: ‘The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism’
https://labourhub.org.uk/2020/11/08/capitalism-on-life-support-who-foots-the-bill/ Excerpt: Mike Phipps reviews The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism, by Grace Blakeley, published by Verso We are entering a new phase of capitalism argues Grace Blakeley in this short book. “The stagnation of the past decade represented the death knell of the speculative mania that characterized the era of financialization, which collapsed […]
Study: ‘Covid & U.S. Electricity Consumption’ – ‘Along comes Covid, & turned every day into the weekend’
Four Facts about Covid and U.S. Electricity Consumption BY LUCAS DAVIS Excerpt: New working paper by Steve Cicala documents large changes in how Americans use electricity. Professor Cicala has been studying the effect of Covid on electricity consumption since back in March, when the Wall Street Journal picked up his work documenting an 18% decrease in electricity […]