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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.”

CLIMATE CHANGE - This article addresses the most current research on sea level rise, as well as adaptation measures being taken around the world. Of special interest, brilliant adaptation measures are taking place in the face of higher seas. 

CLIMATE WATCH - For decades, humanity has been warned about the perils of the coming climate crisis caused by human activity. 

CLIMATE WATCH - Our worldhome is critically ill and on fire, but the politicians and economically powerful are fluffing about with rockets, gleefully banning abortion, spending US $932 billion on new oil and gas fields, and goofing around with carbon trading, as though our living conditions and survival were a leisurely card game.

CLIMATE WATCH - Ithaca, a city of 30,000 people in the Southern Tier of New York state, has pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2030.

CLIMATE WATCH - When Congress directs the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) to coordinate with other relevant federal agencies to research a five-year scientific assessment of solar and other rapid climate interventions. 

CLIMATE WATCH - Carbon emissions continue to rise, but this year the international community might finally be getting serious about climate change.

CLIMATE WATCH - The ecosystems of the world that support life like Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have an incompatible relationship with far right governments, like the United States under Trump, who took a baseball bat to the EPA. 

CLIMATE WATCH - How bad can it (climate change) get? The sky’s the limit! No pun intended. 

ENVIRONMENT - Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear power plant, moved a step closer this week to remaining open past its scheduled 2025 closure date.

CLIMATE CHANGE - The scale of the destruction defies the imagination.

CLIMATE WATCH - Global Warming is no longer a thought exercise or academic paper trying to predict its existence, it is here, now, with burning temperatures in Los Angeles, and horrendous flooding in some places of the world.

CLIMATE POLITICS - California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s last-minute legislative plan for tackling the climate crisis was largely victorious as lawmakers approved laws to set interim targets for 100% clean energy, regulate projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere and smokestacks, and end new oil drilling near communities.

CLIMATE WATCH - In preparation for the extended heat wave that is forecast to affect Southern California through Labor Day weekend, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) is urging all customers to stay safe with tips for what to do to navigate the heat, including if a power outage occurs.