Don’t Fall for Corporate Blackmail

David Sirota / Truthdig Jun 22, 2012 They may balk at regulation, but unlike textile or electronics firms, fossil fuel companies are extracting a resource that is relatively rare, altogether finite and -- most important -- tied to specific geographies. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Time to Remake the Climate

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2012 Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and with the intellectual property behind most of the solutions sitting in the public domain, any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it.Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

It’s Industry Over Environment in New ‘Bioeconomy Blueprint’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 27, 2012 Critics say a new White House-sponsored program aimed at encouraging the development of “green solutions" to energy and manufacturing problems is a green light for corporate giants like Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, Monsanto and Dow to develop the “bioscience” industry without government oversight. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History

By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch Apr 7, 2012 Along with “fivedollaragallongas,” the energy watchword for the next few months is: “subsidies" -- a word representing at least $10 billion in freebies and possibly as much as $40 billion annually in freebie cash for an energy industry already making historic profits. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

We Screwed Up: A Letter of Apology to My Granddaughter

By Chip Ward, TomDispatch Mar 28, 2012 There were plenty of signs we took a wrong turn but we kept on going. Dumb, stubborn, blind: Who knows why we couldn’t stop? Greed maybe -- powerful corporations we couldn’t overcome. It won’t matter much to you who is to blame. You’ll be too busy coping in the diminished world we bequeath you. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Great Carbon Bubble

By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch Feb 8, 2012 If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark.At the moment, one of the world's most prominent features is a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Future of Fossil Fuels

Brian Fairrington, Cagle Cartoons Dec 28, 2011 Dig deeper

The Sky Really Is Falling

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 30, 2011 The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with self-delusion.The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming has been confronted by the power elite with self-delusion. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Obama Holds Forth About Risky Oil Spill Business

Staff / Truthdig Jun 3, 2010 President Barack Obama wants Americans to know he's officially on BP's case about this oil spill business, but also that "we have to acknowledge that there are inherent risks to drilling four miles beneath the surface of the Earth." Indeed there are. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Global Warming? Better Figure Out How to Live With It

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2006 Many climate scientists now see global warming as inevitable (to a certain extent), and are now focusing on the controversial idea of figuring out how to live with it U News & World Report serves up the surprising details Also, check out U News' Q & A with Al Gore, and U News' story on the insurance industry cashing in on the global warming problem . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ozone Pollution Is More Harmful Than Realized

Staff / Truthdig Mar 15, 2006 Ozone, which had been considered a minor player in global climate change, is actually a major factor in the dramatic warming of the Arctic zone, according to NASA. Worse, scientists are reporting that climate change is "irreversible," as Arctic sea ice has failed to re-form for the second year in a row. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )