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.”