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Notes from Underground: Stupid-Cali-Frack-Logistics: Gas Leak is Atrocious

By now, you may have heard about the massive natural gas leak in Southern California, which has been ongoing since late October; then again, given the dearth of major media coverage, you very well may not have. It is an environmental catastrophe that The Guardian has called “the climate equivalent of the BP disaster.” [http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/04/california-natural-gas-leak-methane-climate-change-old-infrastructure] [...]

Whistle-Blower2021-03-03T15:24:10-05:00February 10th, 2016|Assessments of Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Preparedness, Energy, Environment, Energy, and Climate Change, Global Climate Disruption and Impacts, Obama Climate Plan|

Notes From Underground: The Success of Paris…Pending

The year 2015 ended on an up note, but the real work lies ahead. An election year begins in the US, and the success or failure of the Paris agreement could come down to who, come 2017, controls the White House and the Senate, and whether the agreement is ratified. The agreement reached in Paris [...]

Whistle-Blower2021-03-03T15:24:59-05:00January 4th, 2016|Assessments of Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Preparedness, Congress: Legislation and Oversight, Environment, Energy, and Climate Change, Global Climate Disruption and Impacts, International Climate Policy, National Security, Science Communication, Science-Policy Interaction|

Notes From Underground: Pipeline to Paris

The 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is taking place in Paris until December 11th. The Paris Conference will hopefully yield real solutions to climate change — that is, provide measures to achieve sufficient mitigation of CO2-equivalent emissions to make adaptation to the unavoidable [...]

Whistle-Blower2021-03-03T15:25:41-05:00December 7th, 2015|Activism, Assessments of Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Climate Change Education and Communication, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Preparedness, Congress: Legislation and Oversight, Energy, Environment, Energy, and Climate Change, Global Climate Disruption and Impacts, Global Warming Denial Machine, International Climate Policy, Obama Administration, Obama Climate Plan, Science Communication, Science-Policy Interaction|

Notes From Underground: Fracking – The Bridge to Nowhere, Part II

Its defenders like to claim that fracked natural gas is providing a bridge between the traditional fossil fuels of oil and coal, and clean, renewable energy like wind and solar power. I suggest that such a bridge is unnecessary, and that the investment in fracking and its associated infrastructure represents a step backward in the [...]

Whistle-Blower2021-03-03T15:26:13-05:00November 16th, 2015|Assessments of Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Climate Change Education and Communication, Energy, Environment, Energy, and Climate Change, Obama Climate Plan|

Notes From Underground: Fracking — The Bridge to Nowhere, Part I

According to its proponents, natural gas is supposed to be the bridge between old, dirty energy and new, clean, sustainable energy. But if the benefits it provides are temporary, illusory, and carry great risk to public health and the environment, fracked natural gas is not so much a bridge as it is a short pier [...]

Whistle-Blower2021-03-03T15:26:49-05:00October 4th, 2015|Assessments of Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Climate Change Education and Communication, Climate Change Preparedness, Energy, Environment, Energy, and Climate Change, Global Warming Denial Machine, Obama Administration, Obama Climate Plan|

Notes from Underground: Out of Our Sight, Out of Their Minds

Appropriate – is it not? – that the word “underground” carries connotations of secrecy, subversion, and conspiracy. In the context of fossil fuel production and transportation, underground is home to a number of activities about which the public has a dire need to be well informed. Instead, we remain largely misinformed, or not informed at [...]

Whistle-Blower2021-03-03T15:27:18-05:00September 8th, 2015|Activism, Assessments of Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Climate Change Education and Communication, Energy, Environment, Energy, and Climate Change, Global Climate Disruption and Impacts, Global Warming Denial Machine, Obama Climate Plan|