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Modern humans have, through their daily activities, been liberating carbon at a furious pace. By “carbon”, I specifically mean carbon dioxide, or CO2, which is a naturally occurring gas molecule made up of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms.

Many would agree that the energy world has changed dramatically over the past couple of years. In early 2020, energy commodity prices, particularly oil, plummeted as response to COVID-19 devastated demand and producers could not sell their oil.

I would argue that we are already in recession in 2022, as defined by world negative output growth, measured in actual goods and services produced in 2022 vs 2021. Or measured in GDP in U.S. “constant” dollars, in other words, adjusted for inflation. The main reason for that is that:

Anthony Shim has a palpable presence as he stands outside the Vancouver Playhouse at the hometown premiere of his feature film Riceboy Sleeps. The world premiere was on Sept. 11 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

I have read many articles claiming that costs of wind and solar generation are lower than alternatives, and that rapidly declining costs seen in the past will continue unabated in the future, reducing the cost of electricity for consumers.

It happened in a second. One moment the Hadhad family was one of the most successful chocolate makers in Damascus. The next, their factory was destroyed by bombs from the Syrian war and the Hadhad family fled to the basement of their apartment building for shelter.

Inspired by recent conversations with otherwise intelligent people who are quite misguided on the big issues, I bring you the Top 7 Things You Are Probably Wrong About … unless you are a member at BIG Media. 

It is a rallying cry heard frequently these days intended to signal truth, intelligence, and righteousness. Whether in climate change discussions or pandemic responses, energy posturing or political systems, it seems the mere mention of “science” implies incontestable and definitive proof.

The eruption of SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, in 2020 changed the world in many ways. There was an understandable amount of fear in those early days. One of the concerns was the alarming number of people dying of the disease, resulting in the hasty implementation of well-intentioned measures to prevent as many of those deaths as possible.

As the war in Ukraine approaches its 100th day, Russia is being propelled by a flood of cash that could average $800 million a day this year — and that's just what the commodity superpower is raking in from oil and gas.