CLIMATE WATCH - In his message launching the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on April 4, 2022, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres offered the following chilling observation:

THE CLIMATE - Several major oil companies, including BP and Shell, periodically publish scenarios forecasting the future of the energy sector.

CLIMATE WATCH - The climate emergency intensifies daily as the planet warms.

CLIMATE POLITICS - Assuming that the Democratic majority in the House passes the massive climate bill this week, the next round for federal climate action will come when Congress returns after its August recess, and it will center on something euphemistically called ‘permitting reform.’

CLIMATE WATCH - Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead is dangerously close to dead pool status for the first time since construction in the mid 1930s.

CLIMATE WATCH - Our planet is burning up – at least that is what it seems.

OIL INDUSTRY WATCH - Oil giant Shell has just posted record profits for a second consecutive quarter, smashing its previous record from earlier this year.

GREENFLATION - Global policy and politics, particularly in the high-income world, have been obsessed with dreams of a green economy.

CLIMATE & WAR - It may seem hard to believe, but only 15 years ago many of us were talking confidently about “peak oil” — the moment of maximum global oil output after which, with world reserves dwindling, its use would begin an irreversible decline.

CLIMATE CRISIS - The last time prices rose this fast was 41 years ago.

CLIMATE WATCH - As the UK suffered its hottest-ever temperatures only recently, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, interviewed Britain’s erudite environmental journalist George Monbiot July 21, 2022 about his most recent article in The Guardian: 

CA OIL PRODUCTION - A bill that has quietly slipped through the legislature purports to serve a sensible goal — increase transparency on emissions data for the transportation of oil imported to California.