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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Report: Fossil fuel "addiction" is killing millions and worsening climate change impacts

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Report: Fossil fuel "addiction" is killing millions and worsening climate change impacts
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Well, here's the idlers in action. Time for WUSTL to ban idling on campus

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Engine running for 1 minute 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/D3DSAKZm9R — Daniel Moser (@_dmoser) September 6, 2022
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure.

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Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure.    A Guardian article summarized this report here:  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...

Bob Giordano on Why Streets are Political. (More on automobility and the ways that cars privatize public space, while biking creates more community)

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Bob Giordano on Why Streets are Political

We're talking automcobility this week -- here's a pro-bike anti-truck ad from the UK - and it makes sense

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Picking up groceries with an F-150 is like... Cracking nuts with a sledgehammer or Making toast with a flamethrower. 6 out of 10 trips are u...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Carbon Capture is a fossil fuel industry distraction from real solutions. They use a lot of money to skew public opinion and do unnecessary expensive research (and they're here at WUSTL too).

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New letter to the Department of @Energy Inspector General - 50 groups requesting an investigation of the Livermore National Lab campaign pr...

Time to Blow Up Electricity Markets | by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate. TLDR: 'Free markets' do not work for energy consumers. And they are never free. Energy should be owned and regulated by the state, not for a profit motive, but for a wellbeing motive.

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Time to Blow Up Electricity Markets | by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate
Friday, September 2, 2022

Cool chart you can see - after Mitchell - the rise of coal, first, and then the expansion of oil use, over time

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Energy use per capita: US and Saudi Arabia and Norway (a big oil producer) are at the top

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We'll talk about 'clean coal' and carbon capture and storage later this semester, TLDR: it is a non-solution that only serves the interests of the fossil fuel companies

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“CCS (carbon capture and storage) is an unnecessary, expensive, wasteful diversion away from a modern, efficient renewable-powered economy w...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Environmental Injustice: The Case of Pakistan -- mentioned this in class, here's a graphic echoing what I said about who caused the problem and who is suffering the impacts

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Pakistan is still within its fair share of the safe planetary boundary for CO2 emissions. The global North countries, as a group, have overs...

The US relationship to the Middle East has everything to do with oil, which is complicated by multiple other forces and relations. One of these is the question of Iran, and the likely return to a thawing of US-Iran relations with a return to the nuclear deal set up by Obama. This would likely free up Iranian oil supplies for global trade, thus lowering prices. Saudi Arabia does not want this, because Iran is a rival oil power. In addition, Israel and pro-Israel politicians in the United States do not want this. Here's the latest. Hawkish Democrats Ramp Up Campaign Against Possible New Iran Deal

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Hawkish Democrats Ramp Up Campaign Against Possible New Iran Deal You'll read more about this tangled history with Iran in Carbon Democr...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Towards a unified theory of Biden's climate deal (Kate Aronoff)

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Towards a unified theory of Biden's climate deal

Exploring the Big Challenge Ahead: Insights on the Path to a Net-Zero Power Sector by 2035

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Exploring the Big Challenge Ahead: Insights on the Path to a Net-Zero Power Sector by 2035
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

I was harping on car exhaust, which we can't see. Unless we have a FLIR Camera - check out this cool video, can see CO2 too.

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I mentioned the FLIR camera in class today, which can be used to see gas emissions (CO2, methane, car exhaust) that we otherwise do not see....

More radical direct action

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🚨 Tunnelers enter their sixth day of occupation 🚨 https://t.co/DwnKICCr6B An 8 minute video on our YouTube that summarises the last week o...

Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action - Nature Climate Change

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Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action - Nature Climate Change

The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.

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The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.
Monday, August 29, 2022

How Far Would You Go to Stop Climate Change?

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How Far Would You Go to Stop Climate Change?

Middle East security still fragile, with or without Iran nuclear deal - Responsible Statecraft

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Middle East security still fragile, with or without Iran nuclear deal - Responsible Statecraft
Friday, August 26, 2022

How to Blow up a Pipeline, Exhibit A

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@metpoliceuk rushing to protect petrol pumps You should be arresting @BorisJohnson and @GOVUK for crimes against humanity We are in resis...

How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire

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How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Manchin Delivered “Game Changer” To His Oil Donor

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Manchin Delivered “Game Changer” To His Oil Donor

‘A huge day’: Climate plan to make Kansas City carbon-neutral by 2040 moves forward

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‘A huge day’: Climate plan to make Kansas City carbon-neutral by 2040 moves forward
Friday, July 29, 2022

Biden’s Militarized Foreign Policy is Obstructing his Climate Agenda (Stephen Semler)

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Biden’s Militarized Foreign Policy is Obstructing his Climate Agenda
Monday, July 25, 2022

It's ok to be angry about those who refuse to act on climate. Anger leads to action

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 https://kenyonreview.org/journal/july-aug-2022/selections/genevieve-guenther/

The right-wing pro-Israel lobby is attacking progressives. This has everything to do with fossil fuels and resistance to action on the climate. The status quo in Israel is militarized, fossil-fueled relationships with dictatorships and ongoing oppression of Palestinians. All built on the oil-weapons-war cycle. We'll discuss this fall..

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Peter Beinart: The Israel Lobby Is Spending Millions to Defeat Progressive Democrats in Primary Races  https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/1...

People say the transition to renewable energy costs too much, biggest red herring talking point there is. The alternatives are much costlier.

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 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/environment/build-back-better-joe-manchin.html?referringSource=articleShare

Thea Riofrancos reviews Andreas Malm: "How to Blow up a Pipeline"

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 https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/andreas-malm-climate-politics/
Monday, July 11, 2022

I have long referred to the criminality of the fossil fuel industry, and people say I'm conspiratorial. Well, the evidence is on my side: "Spire criticized for destroying documents about controversial St. Louis pipeline" (Bryce Gray - Post-Dispatch)

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Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Last year we thought things were getting better in the Middle East, now the Biden administration is dragging the US deeper into the circle of weapons and oil. (Sarah Whitson in the American Prospect)

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Big Oil Bought the Supreme Court, Which is Why They Love Global Warming and Hate the EPA (The Intercept)

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Ameren looks to solar and gas-powered plants for new energy sources -- bad news

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 Don't let the solar plant fool you. https://news.stlpublicradio.org/health-science-environment/2022-06-29/ameren-looks-to-solar-and-gas...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Climate Denialism is About White Supremacy

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 https://atmos.earth/climate-denial-mass-shootings-white-supremacy/

Republicans have been gunning for the EPA for a long time

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 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/climate/supreme-court-climate-epa.html?referringSource=articleShare

Fossil Fuels on Campus: Stanford's just like Wash U in some ways

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 https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/stanford-sustainability-school/

The Fossil Fuel Industry is Racist

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 https://gizmodo.com/the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-racist-1846594231?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=earther_twitter

On the Supreme Court's EPA decision

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 https://www.drilledpodcast.com/what-paths-would-the-worst-west-virginia-v-epa-ruling-leave-open/
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Response to Global Energy Crisis So Far? A Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuel 'Gold Rush': Analysis

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 https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/08/response-global-energy-crisis-so-far-planet-wrecking-fossil-fuel-gold-rush-analysis

New York Democrats Kill Public Renewable Energy Bill -- for now

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 https://gizmodo.com/new-york-build-public-renewables-act-1849027902