Tag Archives: climate change

You've probably heard about the Gulf Stream weakening and the potentially "catastrophic" effects.This climate scientist says not to worry.Note that the piece doesn't say that climate change is not occurring or claim that humans are not involved. It just says that the conventional wisdom about the Gulf Stream is wrong.Earth Institute — Columbia UniversityClimate mythology: The Gulf Stream, European climate and Abrupt ChangeRichard SeagerLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University...

India is the most vulnerable country to climate change, followed by Pakistan, the Philippines and Bangladesh, a ranking by HSBC showed on Monday.... Pakistan was ranked by HSBC among nations least well-equipped to respond to climate risks.... Not that prior to the partition of India after independence, Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India. This area of the subcontinent is most vulnerable.ReutersIndia most vulnerable country to climate change - HSBC report

I’ve written a blog post about this year’s Alternative Federal Budget (AFB). Points raised in the blog post include the following: -This year’s AFB would create 470,000 (full-time equivalent) jobs in its first year alone. By year 2 of the plan, 600,000 new (full-time equivalent) jobs will exist. -This year’s AFB will also bring in universal pharmacare, address involuntary part-time employment among women, eliminate tuition fees for all post-secondary students in Canada, speed up...

Climate change, terrorism and the backlash against globalization are the three most significant challenges to civilization as we know it, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. These are all conditions either caused by or strongly influenced by neoliberalism, which entails neo-imperialism and neocolonialism, as well as "colonizing" the vast majority of the populations of the developed countries that heretofore had...

What happens when land is consolidated with capital as a factor and the objective is maximizing profit short-term.The GuardianMass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to deathGeorge MonbiotSee alsoPatreonPrinciples of Political Economy: The opening lines Steve Keen

Sea level rising faster than anticipated by older models. A new model (2002) explains the acceleration.  Coastal land value?Flassbeck EconomicsThe doomsday glacier problem Will Denayer

It seems Americans can’t rally support for something without declaring a “war” on it. The war on poverty. On drugs. On gangs and crime. On terror. And these wars have become open-ended, or “generational” in Pentagon-speak, with a dynamic of crisis-surge-“progress”-new crisis-new surge-repeat that sustains large bureaucracies and huge government spending. To these “wars” we must add a new one, notes Michael Klare at TomDispatch.com: the climate change war.... So, two things are most...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I’m now officially fighting a war against bad climate change logic in all forms.

Graphics and video. Big social, political and economic consequences in store.World Economic ForumThis alarming chart shows the reality of global warming over 100 yearsJohn McKenna

To understand why neoliberalism is in crisis, it helps to begin at the beginning with Adam Smith. He was the grandfather of market economics, but a more complex thinker than modern day neoliberals like to remember. They hail the ‘invisible hand’ – the idea that self-interest and unmanaged markets work best – and recall his...