CLIMATE

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.

ENVIRONMENT - A leading environmental group on Wednesday condemned the Biden administration's attempt to overturn a court ruling that blocked offshore fracking in public waters off the coast of California.

STUDENT DEBT - President Joe Biden has just launched a plan to forgive a portion of federal college loan debt for millions of Americans.

CA CLIMATE POLITICS - Climate hawks in California’s Legislature are taking up Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposals to accelerate the state’s emissions reduction targets, protect communities from poisonous oil and gas wells and build out enough renewable energy to completely wean the state off fossil fuel electricity by 2045.

CLIMATE WATCH - Bill McGuire is a volcanologist and Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London.

FOSSIL FUELS - The short answer: No, not even close! 

CLEAN AIR WATCH - California is expected to implement a groundbreaking measure on Thursday that will ban sales of all new gas-powered cars by 2035, The New York Times reports.

LA AIR QUALITY - Southern California’s petroleum refineries have a long history of dodging regulation.

CLIMATE WATCH - Scientists are working on a plan to go beyond the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) recently signed by President Biden, which is supposed to tackle global warming, which, in turn, is tearing the planet apart, piece-by-piece.

ENVIRONMENT - Irvine provides a solution for transportation, energy and diversity issues bedeviling the country.

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.