In 2019, France’s best known climate expert sat down to work with its most feted graphic novelist. The result? Perhaps the most terrifying comic ever drawn.

Part history, part analysis, part vision for the future, World Without End weaves the story of humanity’s rapacious appetite for fossil fuel energy, how it has made possible the society people take for granted, and its disastrous effects on the climate.

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This should not be a surprise; he put a coal lobbyist in charge of the EPA, and proceeded to roll back as many environmental regulations as he could.

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As companies fall short on methane emission reductions, a top trade group has crafted a road map for dismantling key Biden administration rules.

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New research predicts global CO2 emissions will begin to decline this year and halve by 2050. That’s not fast enough to meet climate goals.

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To summarize: Trump has a real history of telling lies in order to maximize fossil fuel extraction and consumption. Harris has helped take at some action in the direction of getting the US off of fossil fuels though not yet enough.

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The resilient, native fruit has a cult following and could be small farms’ hedge against climate change in a fast-warming world

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Australia’s biggest carbon credit scheme is barely removing any greenhouse gas from the atmosphere, according to a new study, despite hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into it by businesses and the government.

One of the study’s authors, Dr Megan Evans from UNSW Canberra, said the findings about the Human Induced Regeneration scheme, known as HIR, pointed to “such huge failures that it’s almost beyond belief”.

"Geothermal does currently cost more per megawatt hour than wind or solar, but those more-established renewables require big batteries to keep power flowing around the clock."

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My impression is that this is a PR push, designed to avoid having to invest in renewables, and let them keep on burning gas and coal, rather than something likely to come to fruition.