Oil War and Counter-War on Oil
While big price spikes in oil might be good for Big Oil in the short term, this just makes the economic argument for the clean energy transition that much clearer…
Category: Snips of Passing Interests
Climate fiction, climate crisis, media critiques, and the business of culture are all subjects that I try to follow and I’m trying to develop the habit of noting particularly interesting pieces—articles, blogs, news—I come across
The Architecture of Obstruction
A Forensic Analysis of the Anti-Renewable Energy Countermovement What follows is an AI-generated report based on the following query to Gemini in the “Deep Research” mode: Identify and summarize studies,…
Is Climate Hope Fiction Hopeless?
Climate fiction that points to a new mankind in the future isn’t bothering to mention that your hair is on fire today or, for that matter, there’s a bucket of…
AI is Giving Me Gas
Behold the wonder of climate denial in the planned expansion of new gas generation plants I’ve been saying that AI’s projected electricity demand is celebrated by fossil fuel companies because…
American Oil Marches On
Trump may be leading the parade, but the only way fossil fuel conspiracy prevails is if America fails When it comes to Trump, it’s definitely a good news/bad news situation.…
Extinctions are Interesting in Relation to Climate Change
Phrases I’d never imagined writing: “lesser extinction events” or “extinctions are interesting” This post is about “Extinctions and Optimism: What a recent study says and doesn’t say about extinctions,” by…
Let’s Not Worry So Much About “Climate Thought Police”
Andy Revkin likes Roger Pielke’s recent Substack, but it seems to me we all have better things to do Andy Rivkin writes Sustain What on Substack, and a post of…
Climate Defiance
Today, I’m writing about the group Climate Defiance. I’m also writing about climate defiance, lowercase, by which I mean the application of public shaming of executives of fossil fuel corporations,…
The Headlines are Full of Bill Gates’ Latest Wisdom—It’s Hysterical!
Can’t a billionaire get better writers? The headlines are full of Bill Gates touting some version of “Bill Gates Doesn’t Think Climate Change is Important.” It is hysterical. The general…
Democracy, Climate Action, Climate Fiction… and Criminality
These days it can be hard to write climate fiction. Given the dangerous threat America is under now from authoritarianism, the more pressing action seems obvious: combat our country’s slide…