Growth Shock Launch: “I Have a Confession to Make … We are in Trouble”
Some of you may have noted my absence. I’ve been nose-deep in completing the launch of a book that has been about 10 years in the making: Growth Shock. It developed both from my experience as an...
View ArticleIn Government Shutdown/Debt Crisis, ‘Default Denier’ Republicans Pushed...
Republican disapproval jumps 11 percent in recent budget/debt default crisis. (Image source: The Washington Post) “Cut it or Shut it!” — Republican chant during the 2011 and 2012 budget and fiscal...
View Article2013 4th Hottest Year on Record, Deep Ocean Warming Fastest, NASA, NOAA Find...
(Global temperature anomalies for 2013. Image source: NOAA) With the readings coming in for 2013 — atmosphere, ocean surface and the deep ocean — it becomes increasingly obvious that anyone saying...
View ArticleThe Monsters of Growth Shock Rise: Conflict in the Ukraine, Global Food...
(Immense Russian wildfires burning through the thawing tundra’s carbon pool during summer of 2012. The bar on the lower left denotes 50 kilometers. From end to end, the burning zone seen is about 500...
View ArticleTo Fear Peak Oil, Or to Pursue it? That is the Essential Limits to Growth...
On a world in which fossil fuel burning is now in the process of setting off various events of geological scale, one of the things we could well hope for most is a peak in fossil fuel supply. Such an...
View ArticleTaking on the Giants: Skunk Works Aims for Commercial, Compact Fusion Reactor...
Ever since major industrialized nations learned how to fuse atoms in megabombs able to blast scores of square miles to smithereens, the quest has been on to harness the vast potential energy store...
View ArticleElection 2016: A Portrait of America Under Siege
“Donald Trump is an ignorant man, a vulgar man, a man who reminds me of Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin in his arrogance and thirst for power.” — Bernie Sanders A Bizarro Reality To look at Donald...
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