Global gas prices have risen dramatically in the last 12 months. Gas pricing is important not just because it is a key input to many industrial processes but because gas effectively sets the price of electricity, which is also surging to unprecedented le ...
A recent story in the Washington Post (1) celebrated the start up of a climate busting facility in Iceland that removes carbon dioxide from air allowing it to be either stored underground or recycled as a feedstock allowing the production of climate neut ...
A previous article in JTZC compared GHG emissions in Australia with those of Sweden (1). Sweden has a relatively low per capita GHG emissions of 5.1 tonnes of CO2(eq)/year while Australia’s 22.0 tonnes CO2 (eq)/year is among the highest in the deve ...
INTRODUCTION The US Federal Government is by far the nation’s largest landowner with control over 640 million acres or just over 28% of the total landmass (1). A further 2.5 % of the land mass or 56 million acres are held in trust by the federal ...
Decarbonisation of the aluminium industry is in the news (1,2) with Rio Tinto recently announcing a $1.2 million feasibility study aimed at decarbonising part of the alumina refining process. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency, an independent a ...
In 2018 the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produced a special report on Global Warming of 1.5 degree C (1). The report, which covers a lot of ground, provides a number of theoretical global emission pathways calculated to ...
House Resolution 109, introduced on February 1, 2019 by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) is better known as the Green New deal (GND). Although only 14 pages long it has been both celebrated as a key cl ...
Texas has been experienced an unusually severe winter storm and Texans have discovered that the state’s electricity infrastructure has not been able to cope. This situation has prompted a round of climate based political recriminations with conservatives ...
Mere hours after being inaugurated, President Biden signed a raft of executive orders and other proclamations (1), all of which dealt with high profile topics and in many cases fulfilling commitments he made during the campaign. But they, and the subsequ ...
Last week, somewhat overshadowed by the events in Washington, the Democrats took control of the Senate when they won both runoff elections in Georgia. Vice President Harris will now have the deciding vote in a Senate that is an effective 50-50 tie betwee ...