Financial News on Natural Gas

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• In first half of 2025, the financial cost of weather catastrophes escalated at record pace, [as global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels worsens weather catastrophes]. The environment-hating Trump's administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 October 2025

• The Orenburg natural gas processing plant in Rossiya, the largest facility of its kind in the world, has been forced to suspend its intake of gas from Kazakhstan after a Ukrainian drone attack.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 October 2025

• The government of the USA is shutdown, but not for fossil fuels. Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits - under the orders of Trump.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 October 2025

• Oceans lose their luster as concentrations of phytoplankton decline in many ocean regions. Phytoplankton are a crucial food source in ocean food chains, and are a vital source of oxygen generation and CO2 removal. The cause is global heating of the oceans due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Inside Climate News, 17 October 2025

• A non-socialist non-subsidy to the oil and natural gas industries. A privately financed fund, not taxpayers' dollars, will be used to retire 20,000 oil and natural gas wells in West Virginia with no cost to the public.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 October 2025

• Concerns increase over below-average levels of natural gas storage in Europe, month's before winter's cold comes
  - Zero Hedge, 15 October 2025

• Trump, as one nationalist socialist industrial policy, wants more natural gas exports and lower energy prices. But major gas basins are growing old, and the USA lacks the proper infrastructure to ferry molecules where they are needed.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 October 2025

• Almost 75% of drought-prone regions around the world will be at risk of extreme water shortages known as "day zero droughts" by 2100 if CO2 emissions are not reduced (which causes global heating and droughts from the burning of fossil fuels). A third of these regions could have "zero day droughts" (zero water available throughout a city or region) before 2030.
  - Live Science, 13 October 2025

• Earth is grappling with a "new reality" as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. The deaths of coral reefs are due to warmer ocean temperatures, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 13 October 2025

• Earth is grappling with a "new reality" as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. The deaths of coral reefs are due to warmer ocean temperatures, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels [KM: the lastest burning to fuel mostly useless AI data centers to make the rich richer].
  - Marc Benioff's Time, 13 October 2025

• Summers in Nihon are longer by 3 weeks over the last 42 years, researchers state. In comparison, the average durations of spring and autumn shortened from 1982 to 2023 due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 11 October 2025

• Melting sea ice and deforestation are continuing to drive many species toward extinction, with the latest Red List of Threatened Species showing that more than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk. Three species of Arctic seals now face extinction due to global heating (due to the burning of fossil fuels), while half the s birds are in decline due to habitat loss. But the return of the green sea turtle shows how, with coordinated conservation efforts, these losses can be turned around.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 10 October 2025

• The increasing production of natural gas in Turkey threatens the last big European market for natural gas from Rossiya and Iran
  - Thomson's Reuters, 09 October 2025

• Coal is unreliable, expensive and dirty. The Trump is going all in on investments into coal. Coal is neither economical nor reliable. Coal plants are are costly to maintain and increasingly unsound. [The repeatedly-bankrupted] Trump does not understand this economics. The government of Zhōngguó does.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 October 2025

• Zhōngguó is leading the way to a renewable energy future, while the USA under the environment-hating Trump is frozen in the past [by attacking renewable energy and further supporting fossil fuels that cause global heating]
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 07 October 2025

• Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, decreasing their value and making them harder to insure
  - Phys.org, 03 October 2025

• Costly and deadly wildfires really are on the rise, new research finds. The past decade in particular has seen an uptick in devastating blazes linked to climate change due to global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels, according to the study.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 October 2025

• For the first time in human history, the glaciers of California will soon disappear due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - SF Gate, 02 October 2025

• The Trump administation will keep oil and gas permitting moving unhindered, despite the federal government shutdown that began on Wednesday, while approvals for renewable energy projects will halt
  - OilPrice.com, 01 October 2025

• Rossiya signals that it will charge lower prices for natural gas for Zhōngguó, compared with Europe and Turkey
  - Zero Hedge, 30 September 2025

• The current war on science (and thus innovation) and the corporate interests behind it. "There is, unquestionably, a coordinated, concerted attack on science by today's Republican Party.", who are controlled by [the rich] "plutocrats [of Silicon Valley] and their PACs, and petrostates and their politicians and polluters".
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 29 September 2025

• The undeniable [except to Christian politicians who prostitute their votes] science of extreme weather. How global heating is supercharging droughts, floods and storms - all due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - The Climate Brink (substack), 25 September 2025

• Chevron signs a deal with Israel to build a natural gas supply pipeline to Egypt. Scheduled to be completed in three years, the $610 million pipeline is expected to ease Egypt's ongoing energy crisis.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 September 2025

• Trump is forfeiting the clean-energy industry/future to Zhōngguó, [by heaping more socialist subsidies on the oil and natural gas industries, and taking them away from the renewable energy industry]
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 September 2025

• The world's oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life. Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed.
  - The Guardian, 24 September 2025

• The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, global heating and shifting monsoons - due to global heating caused by the burning of fossial fuels, relentless extraction and damming are pushing the mighty river towards collapse, with consequences for food, water and livelihoods across the region.
  - The Conversation, 24 September 2025

• Can hybrid grapes solve the problem of global heating [due to the burning of fossil fuels] that is hurting the wine industry?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 September 2025

• Many parts of the world are predicted to endure "day-zero droughts", periods of extreme and unprecedented water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots including parts of North America, the Mediterranean and southern Africa, according to a new study. This water scarcity is due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 September 2025

• Farmers in England have lost over 50% of their grass/hay harvest this year, due to dry and hot weather conditions due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - The Cool Down, 21 September 2025

• Groceries are more expensive because of Trump's taxes/tariffs, racist deportations of immigrants and global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 20 September 2025

• Top scientists at the National Academy of Sciences find growing evidence that greenhouse gases (caused by the burning of fossil fuels) are, in fact, a danger. The assessment contradicts the [environment-hating] Trump administration's legal arguments for relaxing pollution rules. The report notes that multiple lines of evidence now show that human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation are producing greenhouse gases that are heating the planet, and that climate change is exacerbating a wide variety of health risks like intense heat waves and increased wildfire smoke. Climate-driven changes in temperature and rainfall patterns have also led to negative effects on crops and less water availability in some places, among other disruptions.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 September 2025

• The global water cycle has become "increasingly erratic and extreme" with wild swings between droughts and floods, spelling big trouble for economies and societies, according to a report published Thursday by the World Meteorological Organization. Climate change and global heating, driven by humans burning fossil fuels, is upending this process.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 18 September 2025

• Natural gas (high-tech) stove makers quietly delete air pollution warnings on their stoves, as they fight mandatory health labels. Manufacturers sued to stop a law in Colorado requiring air quality warnings, arguing gas stoves are safe. Some of their own websites once said the opposite.
  - Grist, 17 September 2025

• The high cost of repairing the coastal beaches of California (typically with beach sand replacement), as global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels makes ocean waves stronger and more destructive
  - SF Gate, 17 September 2025

• Prices of arabica coffee beans soar as analyst warns of "weather disasters" [due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels] risk denting global production. "... there is ZERO POSSIBILTY for global production to recover until 2030 and it's a FACT that The World IS Running Out of Coffee ..."
  - Zero Hedge, 17 September 2025

• Heat waves and flooding caused by global heating, due to the burning of fossil fuels, could cost the European Union $50 billion in damage to buildings and agricultural crops as well as a loss of productivity, a new study found.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 September 2025

• The top power generator in Nihon, JERA, is in advanced talks to buy natural gas production assets in the USA for around $1.7 billion. JERA emerged as the top bidder for the assets owned by GEP Haynesville II, a joint venture between Blackstone-backed GeoSouthern Energy and pipeline operator Williams Companies.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 16 September 2025

• The private equity arm of Blackstone is prepared to acquire a 620-MW natural gas power plant in Western Pennsylvania, Hill Top Energy Center, for nearly $1 billion, the investment management firm announced Monday
  - Utility Dive, 16 September 2025

• Extreme heat caused by global heating spurs new laws aimed at protecting workers worldwide. Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They are barely keeping up with the risks caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 September 2025

• Texas is not only the most socialist state for the huge socialist subsidies its fossil fuel industries receive, but also for having the most socialistically-subsidized farms per state in the USA. The power of Christian nationalist socialism.
  - Zero Hedge, 14 September 2025

• Zinc roofs give Paris its signature look. But they are a nightmare in heat. As global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels helps fuel more severe heat waves, Paris is struggling between maintaining its architectural heritage and keeping apartments livable.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 September 2025

• Zhōngguó continues to import liquid natural gas from Rossiya's Arctic region, despite Western sanctions
  - Zero Hedge, 12 September 2025

• "Shock to global seaborne trade of natural gas": Zhōngguó-Rossiya pipeline seen displacing one-third of imports of liquid natural gas into Zhōngguó. The initiative is part of a "new natural gas world order", with pipeline deals reinforcing the long-term bargaining power in energy for Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 September 2025

• As global temperatures rise due to the burning of fossil fuels, scientists believe we may see fewer low, cooling clouds but not fewer of the high, warming clouds. It would be a classic feedback loop that accelerates the very global heating that triggered it.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 September 2025

• Capitalistic socialist Zhōngguó is "the engine" driving countries to abandon fossil fuels that cause global heating. Zhōngguó's vast investment in solar, wind and batteries is on track to end an era of global growth in the use of coal, oil and natural gas. Meanwhile, the environment-hating Trump is trying to destroy the renewable energy industry of the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 September 2025

• For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual socialistically-subsidized fossil fuel and cement companies. Of the extreme heat events the researchers focused on, as many as a quarter of them would have been "virtually impossible" without the climate pollution from any of the 14 biggest "carbon majors" - the largest fossil fuel and cement producers. These so-called carbon majors include oil companies such as ExxonMobil and Chevron.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 10 September 2025

• Despite more national socialist subsidies and industrial interference by Trump, oil and natural gas producers in the USA (and the rest of the world) are bracing for a prolonged downturn, with job losses and investment cuts spreading through the industry
  - Zero Hedge, 09 September 2025

• Incredible proposals to save the ice sheets of the Earth, including giant underwater sea curtains and refreezing Arctic ice, are gaining popularity as the Earth gets hotter due to the burning of fossil fuels. But none of the most high-profile ideas are viable - and worse, they may cause irreparable harm, according to a new study.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 September 2025

• Warming seas [due to global heating from the burning of fossil fuels] threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds
  - Associated Press, 08 September 2025

• As summers become hotter and hotter, due to global heating due to the burning of addictive fossil fuels, people are consuming more of some of their favorite drugs: more sugary beverages and ice creams. For every 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit of warming, added sugar consumption in US households increased by 0.7 grams per person per day, the researchers found, with a marked escalation as temperatures hit between 68 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 08 September 2025

• Oil tycoons bet/bribed big on the environment-hating Trump. Thebets/bribes are paying off. The environment-hating Trump administration has opened land to drilling and is moving to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy. But crude prices have dropped, [as the rest of the world evolves beyond fossil fuels that cause global heating.]
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 September 2025

• Zhōngguó's planned Power of Siberia 2 pipeline with Rossiya could displace the equivalent of Zhōngguó's LNG imports and deliver a "shock" to the global seaborne natural gas trade
  - OilPrice.com, 08 September 2025

• The climate crisis and global heating (due to the burning of fossil gfuels) will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds. These wildfires tend to burn in more remote areas and grow larger faster, posing a higher risk to public safety and health, especially in increasingly drier environments due to global heating.
  - The Guardian, 06 September 2025

• Hop picking season starts amid fears dry summer could hike beer prices. UK hop farmers warn of a national shortage after the hottest summer on record (due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels) slashed yields by up to 60%.
  - SWNS, 04 September 2025

• BlackRock has lost a mandate worth $17 billion with PFZW, one of the largest pension funds in the Netherlands with $290 billion in assets, amid concerns that BlackRock, one of the biggest money managers in the world, isn't acting in the best interests of clients when it comes to climate risk and global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. PFZW is the latest asset owner to voice discontent with money managers in the USA that have cowardly retreated from climate alliances amid an all-out assault on net zero policies by the environment-hating Trump.
  - Bloomberg, 03 September 2025

• The world's methane emissions (most due to fossil fuel use) continue to rise steadily with no signs of slowing, as global trade contributes some 30% to the total amount of the greenhouse gas swirling around the planet. With a global heating potential 80 times greater than CO2 over a 20-year period, methane mitigation offers a critical opportunity to slow climate change in the near term.
  - Phys.org, 03 September 2025

• Zhōngguó and Rossiya sign a 30-year deal to export natural gas from Rossiya to Zhōngguó, and build the much-delayed Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline. An industry executive and insider has underscored to CNBC that this sends a strong signal of the Rossiya-Zhōngguó-Bharat desire to push back against Western economic bullying as BRICS countries forge ahead with their "platform".
  - Zero Hedge, 02 September 2025

• Zhōngguó and Rossiya sign a 30-year deal to export natural gas from Rossiya to Zhōngguó, and build the much-delayed Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline. An industry executive and insider has underscored to CNBC that this sends a strong signal of the Rossiya-Zhōngguó-Bharat desire to push back against Western economic bullying as BRICS countries forge ahead with their "platform".
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 September 2025

• Colombia's natural gas investment predicted to rise 35% to $1.1 billion in 2025
  - Thomson's Reuters, 02 September 2025

• Nihon and South Korea suffer from record high temperatures, due to global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels. The prolonged heat is disrupting the natural cycles of Nihon, causing cherry trees to bloom earlier and Mount Fuji's snowcap to appear later.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 01 September 2025

• Two million people are impacted as the Punjab region of Pakistan experiences its worst floods in its history. While South Asia's seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change and global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is making it deadly.
  - Al Jazeera, 31 August 2025

• Two million people are impacted as the Punjab region of Pakistan experiences its worst floods in its history. While South Asia's seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change and global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is making it deadly.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 August 2025

• A 'plague' of octupus has financially hurt the shellfish industry in the United Kingdom. Warming seas have increased the number of octopuses off the waters of the UK, decimating shellfish numbers and leaving fishermen floundering.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 31 August 2025

• The port of Wilhelmshaven in Deutschland is launching its second LNG terminal to process imported liquefied natural gas
  - Zero Hedge, 30 August 2025

• Exxon predicts a 20% increase in demand for natural gas by 2050, driven by coal displacement in industry and growing electricity use in emerging markets
  - Zero Hedge, 29 August 2025

• Europe buys less natural gas from Rossiya and more natural gas from the USA and Norway. The European Union will further ramp up purchases of U.S. oil, natural gas and coal, with trade rising from about $75 billion in 2024 to $250 billion annually over the next three years.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 August 2025

• More bad news for global heating: natural gas consumption in the USA to rise to a new record high in 2025
  - Zero Hedge, 28 August 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump has made no secret of his hatred of wind and solar power in the USA, prefering to heap socialist subsidies on the oil and natural gas industries. Now he is taking his environment-hating agenda overseas, trying to strong-arm nations to retreat on goals to fight global heating caused by the burning of socialisitically subsidized fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 August 2025

• Punishing droughts, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, put fresh pressure on meat and dairy production. Investors are calling for farm-based businesses to address increasing concerns about their water use. Demand for freshwater is set to exceed supply by 40% by 2030. Water use concerns have also risen as rich AI companies suck tons of water to cool data centers that power their AI systems.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 August 2025

• Instances of Vibrio vulnificus, the deadly flesh-eating bacteria, are rising. Global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is the reason. These potentially deadly bacteria are naturally found and thrive in coastal waters during the warmer months, especially in brackish waters, where fresh water meets the sea.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 27 August 2025

• Across major corn-growing states in the USA, global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is fueling conditions that make watching the corn grow a nail-biter for farmers. Factors like consistently high summer overnight temperatures, droughts and heavier-than-usual rains at the wrong time can all disrupt the pollination of plants - making each full ear of corn less of a guarantee and more of a gamble.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 25 August 2025

• Glaciers around the world are vanishing faster than ever before. Last year, all 58 global reference glaciers across five continents tracked by the American Meteorological Society lost mass for the second year in a row - the greatest average ice loss recorded in the reprot's 55-year history. The cause? Global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - SF Gate, 25 August 2025

• Modern subway systems are built to handle high temperatures and excessive flooding caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 25 August 2025

• Air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels causes 90,000 premature deaths each year in the USA (more than killed by cocaine), according to a new study. Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm in the Christian USA.
  - The Guardian, 22 August 2025

• Socialist and now racist: air pollutants from oil and natural gas operations in the USA are causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues each year (more than are killed by cocaine) - with racial and ethnic minority populations bearing the biggest burden, a new study has found. [This racism and socialism is often coupled with nationalism in the fossil fuel industry.]
  - The Hill, 22 August 2025

• The mental moods of humans around the wold are declining, due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels
  - Phys.org, 21 August 2025

• Even without tax incentives, solar and wind are beating fossil fuels such as oil and gas in the affordability department. As reported by PV Magazine, Lazard's latest Levelized Cost of Energy report finds that unsubsidized utility-scale solar ranges from $0.038 to $0.078 per kilowatt-hour, while onshore wind comes in at $0.037 to $0.086 per kWh. By comparison, new-build natural gas peaker plants cost $0.138 to $0.262 per kWh, even before factoring in volatile fuel prices.
  - The Cool Down, 20 August 2025

• Why the health and environmental harms of microplastics are an increasing liability for the socialist oil and natural gas industries, whose products are used to make plastics, whose profits don't have to pay for the damages. "The [socialist] oil and natural gas industries are going to have to try to tell us that exposure to microplastics every day, from birth to death is just fine. It is just great. You should just eat more of it. It is no problem. And I just don't think they can win that argument."
  - Comcast's CNBC, 20 August 2025

• Northern destinations for vacations (Norway, Sweden, Scotland, etc.) , known for being cool during the summar, now experience extreme heat due to global heating doe to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 19 August 2025

• Hurricane Erin is one of the fastest rapidly intensifying storms in the history of the Atlantic Ocean, from a Category 1 hurricane with 75 mph winds at 11 a.m. Friday to a Category 5 with near 160 mph winds just over 24 hours later. Even more hurricanes are rapidly intensifying in the Atlantic as the oceans and atmosphere warm in response to fossil fuel pollution and the global heating it causes. This likely makes Erin another example of the increasing extremes due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 17 August 2025

• Glaciers in the Arctic, already melting due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, are further melting as microbes accelerate ice melt
  - The Guardian, 15 August 2025

• Negotiations for a global plastic treaty end in failure as countries remain bitterly d;5Civided over how to tackle the crisis. More than 100 countries had called for legally binding caps on plastic production. Many also demanded action to tackle toxic chemicals in plastics. But powerful oil and gas producing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Russia pushed back strongly arguing the treaty should focus more on recycling, reuse and redesign than production caps or a phase-out of chemicals.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 15 August 2025

• Islamic Malaysia is accused of "blocking progress" on a treaty to address the many problems of plastic, as Malaysia sides with the oil giants to resist efforts to phase out toxic additives and cap plastic production. The rich must get richers, environment and health be damned.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 15 August 2025

• The International Court of Justice, the world's highest judicial body, recently delivered its first-ever advisory opinion on the obligations of states in respect of climate change and global heating. The UN court said that fossil fuel production, including licensing and socialist subsidies, "may constitute an internationally wrongful act". The court said in a unanimous ruling that governments and countries have a legal obligation to protect the environment from greenhouse gas emissions, protect present and future generations from the climate crisis and to cooperate internationally. "If socialist subsides are unlawful, then one should expect that subsidies are somehow stopped at a certain point in time."
  - Comcast's CNBC, 15 August 2025

• The six million people in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, could have no water by 2030. The Islamic government is desperately seeking for solutions, but financial reserves to pay for water infrastructure are as 'dry' as the water basins of Kabul.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2025

• What to know about the heat wave in Southern Europe caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. Firefighters were battling blazes in France, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere. Forecasters warned that temperatures would soar well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in some places.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2025

• Extreme heat, due to the burning of fossil fuels, is threatening tropical birds, even in untouched forests
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 13 August 2025

• A glacier outburst is underway in Alaska. It could send a wave of water downstream toward Juneau. The glacial lake outbursts have become a regular occurrence since 2011 and have worsened considerably each year since 2023. They are yet another consequence of global heating due to fossil fuel pollution.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 12 August 2025

• Evacuation warnings intensify as a glacier outburst is underway in Alaska. It could send a wave of water downstream toward Juneau. The glacial lake outbursts have become a regular occurrence since 2011 and have worsened considerably each year since 2023. They are yet another consequence of global heating due to fossil fuel pollution.
  - CBS News, 12 August 2025

• Armenia might defect from the CSTO while the influence of Turkey and NATO influence surge all along the southern periphery of Rossiya, which might embolden Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to defy Iran and Rossiya by building the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline if the West promises them Ukrainian-like military support.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 August 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump tries to stop wind projects because of potential bald eagle deaths, while easing rules for oil and natural gas companies. Biiger donations/bribes from the oil and natural gas companies, apparently.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 August 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump has federal agencies issuing a barrage of restrictions that could halt construction of solar and wind farms on public and private lands
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 August 2025

• A famously stable glacier in Argentina suddenly looks anything but stable. After holding steady for decades, the beloved Perito Moreno has thinned considerably since 2019, scientists said. Blame global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 August 2025

• As the electricity consumption of much-useless AI rises, by 2028, a projected 12% of electricity demand in the USA could be driven from data centers to make the rich richer, and environment hotter
  - Zero Hedge, 08 August 2025

• Some insurance professionals fear the world is fast approaching temperature levels - global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels sold by the socialist energy industry - where professional risk managers will no longer be able to offer cover for financial services. Top insurers fear the climate crisis and global heating could soon outpace industry solutions, effectively threatening to make entire regions around the world uninsurable.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 08 August 2025

• The fire season in California is starting earlier, study finds, due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Summertime fire activity is creeping into spring, and the hotter climate is a major driver, scientists said.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 August 2025

• Turbulence is getting worse in the atmosphere, due to global heating due to fossil fuel. Here are the airplane flight routes with the highest levels of turbulence.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 07 August 2025

• Deadly monsoon floods this year in Pakistan were worsened by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 07 August 2025

• Record high temperatures in Nihon, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, is prompting worries over rice crops in Nihon. The worries are about drought, and a proliferation of stink bugs in some rice-growing areas.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 07 August 2025

• In another win for Zhōngguó, the environment-hating Trump allows the EPA to cancel $7 billion in grants for sola energy, so there is more money for socialist subsidies to the environment-worsening fossil fuel industries
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 August 2025

• The Great Barrier Reef offshore of Australia has been devastated by the worst coral bleeching in history, due to a marine heatwave caused by global heating due to burning fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 August 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump is planning to destroy to two major satellite missions. The data the two missions collect is widely used, including by scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about carbon dioxide and crop health. They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases. [Which is why Trump wants to destroy the satellites. Another favor for the socialist oil and natural gas industry that donates/bribes to Trump.
  - NPR, 04 August 2025

• Trump and other Republicans running the government have declared war on the very idea of climage change and global heating, .
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 01 August 2025

• Europe learned to love buying natural gas from the USA, with lots of (backroom) deals leading to trade agreements. Now Trump, with his flopflopping Rossiya policies, will undermine these deals if Trump offers Putin huge concessions and "enormous economic deals" to end the war in Ukraine. This will cause Europe to start buying natural gas from Rossiya, at the expense of the natural gas industry in the USA.
  - Politico, 31 July 2025

• A new accounting of Trump's tax breaks and other incentives totals tens of billions of dollars of socialist subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. And all the oil industry had to do was donate/bribe Trump with less than $1 billion donation for his election campaign.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 July 2025

• Why Europe's promise to buy $750 billion worth of energy products from the USA, as part of a deal with Trump, is mathematically impossible
  - Zero Hedge, 30 July 2025

• More ills of the socialized oil and natural gas industry. The Permian Basin produces over 5 million barrels of oil daily. With that, the Permian also produces a lot of wastewater, which has started to turn into a problem. Some drillers are even suing others for ruining their reserves. Texas regulators are restricting new injection wells due to rising reservoir pressure, seismic activity, and potential damage to oil reserves and freshwater resources. Legal disputes are emerging among drillers, with Stateline Operating suing Devon Energy and Aris Water Solutions for $180 million.
  - OilPrice.com, 29 July 2025

• The European Union beaurcrats vowed $600 billion of investment into the USA to get a trade deal with Trump. Hours later, the bureaucrats admitted that such investments will have to come from private companies over which the bloc has no authority when it comes to corporate spending priorities.
  - The Independent, 28 July 2025

• The European Union promises to buy $750 billion of energy products from the USA. Given supplies and current demand, so argue that this promise is "wholly unrealistic" and "absured". The USA would pretty much have to stop selling oil and natural gas to the rest of the world, which is not going to happen. Besides, this is a deal between the USA and the European Union, and not with private sector energy companies who are going to buy from whomever is most cost-effective.
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 28 July 2025

• The European Union promises to buy $750 billion of energy products from the USA. Given supplies and current demand, so argue that this promise is "wholly unrealistic" and "absured". The USA would pretty much have to stop selling oil and natural gas to the rest of the world, which is not going to happen. Besides, this is a deal between the USA and the European Union, and not with private sector energy companies who are going to buy from whomever is most cost-effective.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 July 2025

• Freshwater is disappearing from the Earth at alarming rates, due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels, overconsumption (including grow food in deserts) and drough (also caused by global heating)
  - The Hill, 28 July 2025

• In 2020, Virginia passed a law that required the state's largest utility, Dominion Energy, to generate all its electricity from renewable resources by 2045. However, Dominion found a loophole to get around the law's requirements: data centers [KM: to make rich AI companies richer while providing little social benefit]
  - Zero Hedge, 28 July 2025

• Dozens of wildfires burn in Greece and Turkey as temperatures soar due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 July 2025

• Private equity is investing more money into power plants fueled by natural gas. Deals involving the assets totaled $49 billion during the first six months of the year.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 July 2025

• Shares of liquid natural gas comapnies (such as Cheniere) jump 2% to 4%, after Europe agrees to buy $750 billion of energy from the USA as part of a trade deal
  - Comcast's CNBC, 28 July 2025

• Europe is accused of ignoring/downplaying the authoritarian repression in Azerbaijan to continue to import natural gas from Azerbaijan so that Europe can import less natural gas from Rossiya
  - BBC, 26 July 2025

• Toxic algae are turning the coral reefs off of the coast of South Australia into underwater 'graveyards'. A harmful algal bloom, caused by a marine heat wave due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, has poisoned more than 4,500 square kilometers (about the size of Rhode Island), killing over 15,000 animals.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 25 July 2025

• Alarming report warns that huge number of once-valuable homes may soon be "worthless" due to destructive weather patterns [due to global heating due to burning of fossil fuels] making these homes insurable
  - The Cool Down, 22 July 2025

• Fire weather is becoming worse for the world's forests, due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 July 2025

• Trump's plan to impose 100% taxes/tariffs on imports of products from Rossiya will hurt farmers in the USA. One such imported product is urea - a billion dollar a year import, an important fertilizer for corn and other crops. It is cheaper for Rossiya to make urea, since production requires a lot of natural gas which Rossiya has vast amounts of.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 July 2025

• Trump's plan to impose secondary taxes/tariffs on countries importing products from Rossiya will hurt farmers in the Latin America. One such imported product is urea - a billion dollar a year import, an important fertilizer for corn and other crops. Brazil imports over $3.7 billion worth of fertilizer from Rossiya, with few alternatives.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 21 July 2025

• More miserable summer weather? Thank fossil fuel pollution - along with other factors - that has turned summers into months of mounting peril, punctuated by relentless heat waves, rampant wildfires and catastrophic flooding. Flash floods? Too much water in the air due to global heating. As Trump undermines environmental protection, if you voted for him, enjoy paying more for insurance.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 20 July 2025

• For the first time in modern history a capital city, Kabul in Islamic Afghanistan, is close to having no water for human use. Too many people, evaporation due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, and groundwater depletion (the remaining groundwater contaminated) has left Kabul pretty much without water. Worse, women have to spend a lot of their time seeking water in public, only to be harassed by the authoritarian misognistic Islamic government of Afhganistan.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 20 July 2025

• For the first time in modern history a capital city, Kabul in Islamic Afghanistan, is close to having no water for human use. Too many people, evaporation due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, and groundwater depletion (the remaining groundwater contaminated) has left Kabul pretty much without water. Worse, women have to spend a lot of their time seeking water in public, only to be harassed by the authoritarian misognistic Islamic government of Afhganistan.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 July 2025

• Climate catastrophes (wildfires, floods, storm damage), due to global heating from the burning of fossil fuels, is creating a "new market reality" for insurance companies, with insurance losses in 2025 expected to rise about $100 billion
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 18 July 2025

• Climate catastrophes (wildfires, floods, storm damage), due to global heating from the burning of fossil fuels, is creating a "new market reality" for insurance companies, with insurance losses in 2025 expected to rise about $100 billion
  - Comcast's CNBC, 18 July 2025

• The USA was already losing to Zhōngguó in profitting from clean energy technology. The environment-hating Trump's/Republican's latest tax/spending law will make the USA a bigger clean-energy loser, but eliminating tax credits for solar and wind power, while giving more tax credits to the socialist oil and natural gas industries. And with all of that renewable energy, Zhōngguó is making great progress elminating climate-worsening gasoline-powered vehicles.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 16 July 2025

• Meanwhile, the environment-hating Trump administration threatens to quit the International Energy Agency if the IEA continues to support a transitio to renewable energy. Zhōngguó celebrates the stupidity.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 July 2025

• We warned about the first economic shock to the USA caused by compeittion from Zhōngguó. The next economic shock of Zhōngguó will be worse for the USA. The USA builds weapons and gives socialist subsidies to oil and natural gas - Zhōngguó builds industries of the future.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 July 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump is destroying weather science in the USA and reducing the government's ability to help the non-rich deal with environmental disasters, made worse by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels whose very rich industries are being given more socialist subsidies by Trump
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 July 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump is allowing the Energy Department to destroy funding for solar and wind projects, ending hundreds of millions of dollars for renewable energy and efficiency initiatives, to give more socialist subsidies to the oil and natural gas industries whose products cause global heating
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 July 2025

• Extreme heat is a killer. A recent heat wave show how much deadly extreme heat (caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels) is becoming.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 July 2025

• Increasingly acidic ocean waters are threatening oyster farming in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. The increased acidity is due to the burning of fossil fuels, which produced CO2 that when absorbed by the oceans can be converted in to acid.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 July 2025

• Canada begins shipping natural gas to Asia to reduce its dependence on sales to the hostile USA under Trump
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 July 2025

• By 2035, a third of the global supply of semiconductor processor chips is threatened by climate change and drought due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 08 July 2025

• Insurance companies in the USA are refusing to sell insurance for homes in high-risk climate zones because the losses from extreme weather events (caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels) makes such policies unprofitable to sell. Without insurance, would-be home owners cannot obtain mortgages from banks and other lenders. Yet the environment-hating Trump is eliminating funding for emergency services and weather monitoring, eliminate funding for renewable energy, to give more tax credits to the fossil fuel companies that are the root cause of the destructive extreme weather.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 July 2025

• Over 50 people have been confirmed to be killed by the recent flash flooding in Texas, with more rain and flash flooding to come. Yet another heavier rain storm due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 July 2025

• Elon Musk's Groq AI system is blaming Musk and Trump for the multiple deaths in Texas due to flooding - using facts (anathema to Trump and Musk). "Trump's NOAA cuts, pushed by Musk's DOGE, slashed funding 30% and staff 17%, underestimating rainfall by 50% and delaying alerts. ... This contributed to the floods killing 27, including about 20 girls at a camp." More Grok: "Climate models from IPCC and NOAA project more intense flooding in Texas due to warmer air holding more moisture, exacerbating events like this. ... Ignoring it - regardless of politics - will not stop the trend; global emission cuts are needed." -- yeah, from the burning of fossil fuels so popular in Christian-controlled Texas.
  - The Daily Beast, 06 July 2025

• A "thou shalt not" lying Christian Republican congressional candidate from Georgia, Kandiss Taylor, calls the recent floods in Texas "Fake Weather", and that someone (who?) manipulated the weather to kill people.
  - The Daily Beast, 06 July 2025

• As flash floods struck parts of Texas, important roles were vacant at National Weather Service offices in Texas, due to budget cuts by the environment-hating Trump and Musk. Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 July 2025

• State officials in Texas (all of whom voted for Trump) severely criticize Trump's downgraded National Weather Service for its bad forecasts of recent flooding in Texas. That's what happens when you vote for an anti-environment president.
  - The Daily Beast, 06 July 2025

• Extreme rain is becoming even more extreme, as the world heats up due to the burning of fossil fuels, now made worse as Trump gives new tax credits to the fossial fuel industry by taking them away from the renewable energy industry
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 July 2025

• Heat waves in Europe, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, causes wildfires, fish kills and power outages. And it will get worse.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 July 2025

• In the race to power the future safely, Zhōngguó is racing ahead. While Zhōngguó dominates/sells clean energy to the world, Christian Republicans in the USA end government support for renewable energy to be able to give more socialist subsidies to the oil and natural gas industry
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 July 2025

• Government relief and insurance programs require significant reform to be equipped to handle a future of increasingly intense and costly climate events due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 July 2025

• While Trump destroys the solar energy industry in the USA by giving its tax credits to oil and natural gas companies, Zhōngguó has launched a fully seawater-based solar energy system - the first of its kind suitable for industrial use and large-scale power production.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 July 2025

• Researchers at the University of Sydney have invented a new deivce that uses plasma and electrolysis to turn air into ammonia, with needing to burn fossil fuels
  - Interesting Engineering, 04 July 2025

• Some nuclear reactors in Europe were temporarily shutdown due to extreme heat caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. The nuclear reactors typically send their heated cooling waters into rivers, rivers which are now already very hot. The output of the reactors could make the rivers hotter, harming animals such as fishes in the rivers.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 July 2025

• A majority of companies around the world are already suffering financially from global heating, according to a new Morgan Stanley report
  - Bloomberg (locked), 03 July 2025

• Trump ends socialist support for the solar and wind industryies, eliminating their tax credits in the new spending/tax law, and gives the socialist tax credits to the socialist oil, natural gas and coal industries that still have to pay nothing for the huge environmental damage their products cause.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 03 July 2025

• While the environment-hating Trump is destroying efforts by the USA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (much due to the burning of socialistically-subsidized fossil fuels), the European Union is trying to achieve even greater levels of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 July 2025

• The environment-hating Trump allows government websites hosting important climate reports for the USA - to be eliminated. This will make it harder for the public, local governments and researchers to deal with climate disasters due to global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Associated Press, 02 July 2025

• A report from the United Nations argues that recent droughts are a "slow moving catastrophe" for the world. Droughts are a "silent killer" that "creeps in, drains resources, and devastates lives in slow motion". Global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels worsens the droughts.
  - BBC, 02 July 2025

• The head of the Environmental PROTECTION Agency is promoting an aggressive policy for more drilling for oil and natural gas - environmental ANTI-PROTECTION activities that should be the job, if at all, of the Department of Energy
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 July 2025

• The heat wave in Europe, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is dangerous and becoming worse
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 July 2025

• Corporations are shirking their financial reporting responsibilities by reporting fewer details about the hazards of extreme weather (drought, flooding, wildfires) caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 July 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory which measures levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Measurements from the laboratory have shown a steady increase in the levels of CO2, which worsens global heating, due to the burning of fossil fuels. [KXnote: A nice return for the fossil fuel industry for the investments/donations/bribes to Republicans.]
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 01 July 2025

• The lone star tick, a tick that feeds on blood and can trigger a bizarre allergy, the alpha-gal syndrome, to meat in the people they bite, are rapidly increasing in number and spreading across the USA, to the extent that they could cover the entire eastern half of the country and infect millions of people, experts have warned. They can expand because of global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - The Guardian, 01 July 2025

• Europe endures relentless heat wave due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Extreme heat has gripped countries including France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, with record temperatures, health alerts and wildfires.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 June 2025

• A surprise tax in the Republican spending/tax proposed law to make the rich richer could cripple the wind and solar power industry in the USA (another gift to Zhōngguó) so that there is more money for socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 June 2025

• A surprise tax in the Republican spending/tax proposed law to make the rich richer could cripple the wind and solar power industry in the USA (another gift to Zhōngguó) so that there is more money for socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 June 2025

• Extreme heat is breaking the USA, due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. People across the USA who are living through these extreme heat episodes and stressing over escalating electric bills, dying livestock and dangerous working conditions. Exposure to heat in the workplace drags down labor productivity, suppresses local gross domestic product and hits rural economies hardest - especially those heavily dependent on manufacturing or agriculture. Supply chain disruptions and power outages that destroy inventories also drive up costs for producers and consumers, from food spoilage in grocery stores and warehouses to heat-damaged electronics and pharmaceuticals rendered unusable. [KXnote: but the rich get richer through their investments in fossil fuels.]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 June 2025

• The Earth is heating up, and the increased heating is happening faster. Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s, due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 June 2025

• Coffee farms in the Los Santos region of Costa Rica are being devestated by climate change due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Heavy rains are a big culprit, fueling diseases like coffee rust and anthracnose. Wet soils cause young fruit to drop early, and irregular flowering throws off the crop cycle. Farmers now obsess over weather forecasts, trying to adapt to unpredictable rains and rising temperatures that disrupt the delicate balance coffee plants need.
  - Tico Times, 26 June 2025

• How Nihon and Alaska pioneered the global market for liquid natural gas. The leading role the USA plays in the liquefied natural gas industry traces its roots to a small Alaskan outpost that began shipping the fuel to Nihon in 1969.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 June 2025

• The Department of Energy declares a electric power grid emergency in the southeast of the USA to avert "blackouts", as the region experiences a very hot heatwave due to global heating due to burning of fossil fuels
  - Zero Hedge, 24 June 2025

• New lies from the socialistically subsidized fossil fuel industry. No longer able to deny climate change and globel heating, they are now attacking the economics of renewable energy such as solar and wind power, to delay the transition away from socialistically subsidized fossil fuels.
  - The Verge, 23 June 2025

• "Real distress" hits the solar panel industry as a tsunami of bankruptcies loom, as Republicans plan to eliminate tax credits for the solar and wind power industries (while not ending socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas). Another industry Republicans are gifting to Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 June 2025

• A dangerous 'heat dome' caused by the burning of fossil fuels causes record temperatures across much of the USA. Officials warn of health risks as massive weather system traps sweltering air.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 June 2025

• Cites in the Midwest of the USA are baking under intense heat (due to global heating caused by burning of fossil fuels), with East Coasts expected to bake as well in coming days. Climate scientists have found that climate change and global heating has made heat waves more common, more intense and longer lasting worldwide, though attributing a specific heat wave to climate change is tricky.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 June 2025

• Scientists at Oregon State University discovered that, in the last glacial period, Earth experienced its highest CO2 increase: 14 parts per million in just 55 years. Now, the Earth experiences that increase every five years due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2025

• A huge heatwave caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is striking the USA this week. AccuWeather estimates that 170 million people will experience temperatures at or above 90 degrees during the building heat wave into next week, with millions of people facing temperatures over 100 degrees.
  - USA Today, 21 June 2025

• Rosiya is ready to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to México and share energy sector technologies. Rossiya is prepared to offer oil extraction technologies suited for challenging geological conditions, as well as solutions aimed at improving the efficiency of oil processing.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 21 June 2025

• To end imports of natural gas from Rossiya, Deutschland is seeking supplies of natural gas from anywhere else. Deutschland, similar to others across Europe, is building more facilities to handle an increase in imports of liquefied natural gas, much of it from the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 June 2025

• The next hot stocks to ride the AI bubble? Chevron and Exxon, since their energy supplies powers AI data centers. [KM: Destroying the environment, destroying human-paid jobs? Good for bubbling their stock price.]
  - Barron's, 21 June 2025

• The Catholic Christian controlled Supreme Court ruled in favor of the fuel industry Friday in a case Ketanji Brown Jackson argued it should not have heard in the first place for favoring the rich. The case involved the Clear Air Act. "For some, this silence will only harden their sense that the Court softens its certiorari standards when evaluating petitions from moneyed interests, looking past the jurisdictional defects or other vehicle problems that would typically doom petitions from other parties." and "I worry that the fuel industry's gain comes at a reputational cost for this Court, which is already viewed by many as being overly sympathetic to corporate interests."
  - HuffPost, 20 June 2025

• The Catholic Christian controlled Supreme Court ruled in favor of the fuel industry Friday in a case Ketanji Brown Jackson argued it should not have heard in the first place for favoring the rich. The case involved the Clear Air Act. "For some, this silence will only harden their sense that the Court softens its certiorari standards when evaluating petitions from moneyed interests, looking past the jurisdictional defects or other vehicle problems that would typically doom petitions from other parties." and "I worry that the fuel industry's gain comes at a reputational cost for this Court, which is already viewed by many as being overly sympathetic to corporate interests."
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 June 2025

• Central and southern Zhōngguó were on high alert for more flash floods on Friday as the annual East Asia monsoon gathered pace and extreme rainfall threatened disruption in the world's second-largest economy. Extreme rainfall and severe flooding, which meteorologists link to climate change and global heating due to burning of fossil fuels, increasingly pose major challenges for policymakers as they threaten to overwhelm ageing flood defences, displace millions, and wreak havoc on Zhōngguó's $2.8 trillion agricultural sector.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 June 2025

• Insurance companies want businesses to "wake up" to the costs of extreme heat caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. The market for extreme heat insurance is only likely to increase as risk modelers for insurers and lending institutions offer clients the ability to see heat impacts on properties or types of businesses.
  - Bloomberg, 18 June 2025

• Abu Dhabi is making its biggest energy investment yet, as it seeks to become a major global force in liquefied natural gas (LNG). Its state oil company, ADNOC, through its investment arm XRG PJSC, has led a $19 billion takeover offer for Santos Limited (based in Australia), a move that would give it direct access to LNG production and exports into booming markets in Asia.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 June 2025

• Abu Dhabi is making its biggest energy investment yet, as it seeks to become a major global force in liquefied natural gas (LNG). Its state oil company, ADNOC, through its investment arm XRG PJSC, has led a $19 billion takeover offer for Santos Limited (based in Australia), a move that would give it direct access to LNG production and exports into booming markets in Asia.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 June 2025

• Major banks around the world, their environment-hating coming out again due to Trump, increase fossil-fuel funding as they betray their climate pledges. New report shows that banks poured nearly $900 billion into financing coal, oil and gas projects in 2024.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 June 2025

• The European Union plans to end all imports of natural gas from Rossiya by 2027
  - Zero Hedge, 17 June 2025

• Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about 25% of the world's oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave, due to global heating caused by burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 June 2025

• The giant trading company in Nihon, Mitsubishi, is in talks to acquire assets owned by U.S. natural-gas producer Aethon Energy Management for about $8 billion
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 June 2025

• Who will pay for climate change and global heating? You will, until we break our addiction to fossil-fuels. Unlike Big Tobacco, Big Oil does not accept responsibility. It wants Congress to give it immunity from lawsuits. The industry likes the 2005 precedent in which Congress gave immunity to gunmakers from liability for deaths and injuries resulting from unlawful misuse of firearms. Big Oil's attorneys argue that energy consumers, not energy companies, are the polluters. The environment-hating Trump agrees: he ordered the U.S. Attorney General to stop states from enforcing climate liability laws and programs like carbon trading.
  - The Hill, 16 June 2025

• Renewable energy generation remains the cheapest power to build, as building new natural gas power plants becomes more expensive
  - Thomson's Reuters, 16 June 2025

• Isreal missile attack targets a natural gas refinery at the giant South Pars natural gas field in Iran
  - Zero Hedge, 14 June 2025

• The USA Interior Department announces a $200 billion agreement to supply Nihon with liquid natural gas
  - Zero Hedge, 13 June 2025

• Natural gas storage in the USA improves, but long-term challenges remain. Natural-gas storage levels in the USA have improved since a colder-than-expected winter drained inventories, but rapid growth in liquefied natural-gas exports is causing concerns that the demand will result in higher prices later this year - and beyond.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 June 2025

• The European Union proposes a ban on natural gas flows through Nord Stream, and reducing the maximum price payable for oil from Rossiya, as part of its latest round of sanctions against Rossiya for its invasion of Ukraine.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 June 2025

• Scientists mapped what happens if a crucial system of Atlantic Ocean currents collapses. The weather impact would be extreme. Parts of the world would suffer a deep freeze, with winter temperatures plunging to around minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit in some cities. This huge cooling, despite global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. Crops would die, threatening food security, and infrastructure could buckle in the Northern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere, meanwhile, is projected to experience increased warming.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 11 June 2025

• Trump, not understand business economics, orders coal and natural gas plants to continue operating, despite their owners wanting to close the power generation facilities - do not go bankrupt. The grid operators that buy electric power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb the extra costs (on top of the extra costs from Trump's taxes/tariffs).
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 June 2025

• Trump, not understand business economics, orders coal and natural gas plants to continue operating, despite their owners wanting to close the power generation facilities - do not go bankrupt. The grid operators that buy electric power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb the extra costs (on top of the extra costs from Trump's taxes/tariffs).
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 June 2025

• Despite the intentions of the environment-hating Trump, investments into renewable energy are expected to be double that of investments in global-heating-causing fossil fuels. Around $3.3 trillion will flow into the energy sector in 2025 and around $2.2 trillion of that will go to renewable and nuclear energy, energy storage, low-emission fuels, efficiency and electrification, the International Energy Agency said.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 June 2025

• Surging electricity demand is just one reason natural gas looks so appealing to investors this summer and beyond. The gas market was highly seasonal and regional, but now it is "global integrated".
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 05 June 2025

• Coal-fired electricity generation in Bharat in May fell at the fastest pace in five years, as overall power demand declined for the first time since August and renewable energy generation rose to a record high. Increased generation from less polluting power sources including hydro and nuclear also led to a decline in natural gas-fired power output, which fell at the steepest rate in nearly three years.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 05 June 2025

• The boom in the operations of AI data centers will require a lot of natural gas
  - Zero Hedge, 03 June 2025

• Nearly 40% of the world's glaciers are already doomed, according to scientists, even if global temperatures stopped rising immediately, unlikely as the world continues to worsen global heating with the burning of oil, coal and natural gas
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 02 June 2025

• Rising snow and glacier melt, due to global heating from use of fossil fuels, puts almost 2 billion in South Asia at risk. The risks are aggravated by black carbon pollution, which could curb water supply from many rivers flowing through the Himalayan plains.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 02 June 2025

• Oil companies are sued over the death by hypothermia of a woman in the 2021 heat wave. Experts said it is the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global heating. The suit alleges that they failed to warn the public of the dangers of the planet-warming emissions produced by their products and that they funded decades-long campaigns to obscure the scientific consensus on global warming.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 June 2025

• NRG Energy, once viewed as a boring retail energy supplier, suddenly is one of hottest stocks in the USA. Investors see a power producer expanding rapidly to tap surging demand driven by AI. But the looks more like a risky derivatives energy trader than a simple power producer, with volatile earnings and a weak balance sheet.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 May 2025

• Elon Musk and Tesla severely criticize Republican plans to end socialist clean energy subsidies in the proposed tax law. Tesla has been highly dependent on socialist subsidies for years to make Musk rich. For example, the proposed tax law would terminate most credits for electric vehicles at the end of the year, disqualifying Teslas from a $7,500 incentive at a time when the company is experiencing declining sales and backlash linked to Musk's actions to destroy the federal workforce. Musk does point out one huge socialist hypocrisy of Republicans: "There is no change to tax incentives for oil and natural gas, just EV/solar."
  - Politico, 29 May 2025

• In a landmark ruling advancing efforts to hold major polluters accountable for transnational climate-related harms, on May 28 a court in Deutschland concluded that a corporation can be held liable under civil law for its proportional contribution to global climate change and global heating, Climate Rights International said today. "The message of the court is clear: major carbon polluters can be held legally responsible for their role in driving the climate crisis and the resulting human rights and economic harms. If the reasoning of this decision is adopted by other courts, it could lay the foundation for ending the era of impunity for fossil fuel giants and other big greenhouse gas emitters."
  - Climate Rights International, 28 May 2025

• Global temperatures are forecast to reach record or near-record levels during the next five years - due to global heating from the burning of fossil fuels, setting the stage for more deadly extreme weather, according to an annual report from two of the top meteorological agencies in the world. More than 1.5 degrees of global warming increases the risks of more severe impacts, including triggering tipping points in the climate system. Melting sea ice and glaciers could soon reach a point of no return, with dramatic implications for sea level rise, scientists have warned.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 28 May 2025

• Trump has approved the EPA to erase limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases by power plants. Non-scientists political puppets of Trump at the EPA argue that carbon emissions from power plants do not contribute "significantly" to climate change and global heating. Scientists disagree.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 May 2025

• Trump has approved the EPA to erase limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases by power plants. Non-scientists political puppets of Trump at the EPA argue that carbon emissions from power plants do not contribute "significantly" to climate change and global heating. Scientists disagree.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 May 2025

• Trump wants new natural gas pipelines in New York and New England. Who will build them, since natural gas companies are not eager to start building?
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 May 2025

• More lies from AI companies. The CO2 emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small -- until you add up what the industry isn't tracking (a lie by omission). The carbon intensity of electricity used by data centers was 48% higher than the US average. Data centers are expected to continue trending toward using dirtier, more carbon-intensive forms of energy (like natural gas) to fill immediate needs, leaving clouds of emissions in their wake.
  - MIT Technology Review, 20 May 2025

• Due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, the ice sheets of the world are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and "catastrophic" migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and keeps global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to new research. Since the 1990s, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have quadrupled the amount of ice that has melted, now about 370 billion tons a year. Around 230 million people live less than 1 meter (3.2 feet) above sea level.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 20 May 2025

• Norwegian energy company Equinor will resume construction on its offshore wind farm in New York, after Trump had the Interior Department lift its order to halt work on the project. In return, the governor of New York agreed to help facilitate the new construction of a new natural gas pipeline for New England and New York.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 20 May 2025

• Norwegian energy company Equinor will resume construction on its offshore wind farm in New York, after Trump had the Interior Department lift its order to halt work on the project. In return, the governor of New York agreed to help facilitate the new construction of a new natural gas pipeline for New England and New York.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 May 2025

• Shares of renewable energy companies jump after Trump allows the resumption of the wind energy project offshore of New York
  - Zero Hedge, 20 May 2025

• Almost half of all mid- and small-cap oil and gas stocks in the US are now trading below their book values. At this point, 33% of Russell 3000 energy stocks are trading below their book values. A similar proportion of large and small oil and gas stocks in Canada have also fallen into the same range, Bloomberg calcualtes.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 May 2025

• Environmental investment funds in Europe are holding more than $33 billion of investments in in major oil and natural gas companies, despite fossil fuels being the root cause of the climate crisis. Some of these investment funds used dishonest branding such as Sustainable Global Stars and Europe Climate Pathway.
  - The Guardian, 18 May 2025

• 31 million tons of supercharged Sargassum seaweed, is creeping towards beaches in Florida and the Caribbean. As it rots on beaches, it emits harmful gases. Rising ocean temperatures due to the burning of fossil fuels is fueling even more growth of Sargassum then in decades past.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 15 May 2025

• As the Rio Grande runs dry, politicians and business leaders in South Texas look to new water supplies to sustain growth, such as water for capturing more rain and from treating groundwater. Water levels at the two international reservoirs that store the river water supply for South Texas reached record lows last year, and water levels continue to hover around 20%. And demand for municipal water is only expected to increase over the next several decades, with no increase in supply on the horizon. Global heating caused by burning the fossil fuels that profit Texas so greatly -- are more quickly evaporating more water from the surfaces of rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
  - Texas Tribune, 15 May 2025

• Renewable energy is booming in Texas. But Republicans want to change that. Despite soaring power demand, Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy, part of a national wave of opposition that seeks more use of oil and natural gas.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 May 2025

• Shell faces fresh legal challenge over development of new oil and natural gas fields. Dutch environmental group Milieudefensie said that by developing new fields, the oil and gas giant is in breach of legal duties to cut carbon emissions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 May 2025

• European Energy is beginning operations the world's first commercial-scale e-methanol plant in Denmark on Tuesday, with shipping giant Maersk set to buy part of the production as a low-emission fuel for its fleet of container ships.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 13 May 2025

• NRG buys 18 natural-gas power plants in bet on soaring energy demand. The roughly $12 billion acquisition would double the generation capacity of NRG to about 25 gigawatts.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 May 2025

• Global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels threatens the banana, the fourth most important food crop in peril as Latin America and Caribbean suffer from slow-onset climate disaster. Rising temperatures, extreme weather and climate-related pests are pummeling banana-growing countries such as Guatemala, Costa Rica and Colombia, reducing yields and devastating rural communities across the region.
  - The Guardian, 12 May 2025

• Republicans reduce funding for renewable energy, and increased funding for global heating fossil fuels
  - The Hill, 12 May 2025

• Syria Announces a major natural gas deal with Turkey, which will deliver 6 million cubic meters of natural gas per day to Syria within the next three months
  - Zero Hedge, 11 May 2025

• The rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled over the past 30 years. The cause? Human-caused global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 May 2025

• The USA and Rossiya are discussing restoring natural gas flows to Europe as important to a comprehensive peace deal for Ukraine
  - Zero Hedge, 08 May 2025

• Nations in Southeast Asia are increasing imports of natural gas from the USA, to gain leverage in tax/tariff talks with Trump. Asian economies are pledging more imports of LNG from the USA, which is expected to see demand rise as countries shift from coal.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 May 2025

• Why a plane-size machine could foil a race to build power plants fueled by natural gas. Wait times for the hulking turbines needed to turn natural gas into electricity have doubled in the past year as companies scramble to build data centers for AI.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 May 2025

• Electricity generation in the USA using fossil fuels declines below 50% for the first time ever
  - OilPrice.com, 05 May 2025

• The natural gas industry in the USA pushes back on Trump's shipbuilding rules. The main oil and natural gas trade group wants the Trump administration to reconsider maritime rules released in April that would require it to use some USA ships to transport liquefied natural gas. An ndustry association estimated that five LNG tankers built in the USA would be needed in 2029 and said building them was "not feasible", citing a lack of shipyard capacity and skilled workers, among other concerns.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 May 2025

• Despite public rhetoric, the reliance of Europe on natural gas from Rossiya remains substantial. A proposed bipartisan law in the USA Senate could reshape global energy trade, imposing massive 500% taxes/tariffs on countries importing fossil fuels from Rossiya.
  - OilPrice.com, 02 June 2025

• How the oil and natural gas industries have suffered financially under Trump: their stocks have plummeted, crude oil prices have plummeted and gasoline prices remain high.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 May 2025

• A study of 200 fossil fuels ads in South Africa found that polluting fossil fuel companies use manipulative language and imagery to "create a false image of environmental responsibility. ... They prominently display wind turbines and solar panels, misleading the public into believing they are driving the transition to clean energy when, in reality, they continue expanding fossil fuel production."
  - The Cool Down, 30 April 2025

• US natural gas futures are "oversold", according to analysts at Goldman Sachs
  - Zero Hedge, 30 April 2025

• Zhōngguó extends its suspension of imports of liquid natural gas from the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 28 April 2025

• A growing number of sizable companies, from mining giants to energy majors, are embracing the hype for natural hydrogen. Hydrogen has long been billed as one of many potential energy sources that could play a key role in the energy transition, but most of it is produced using fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 28 April 2025

• $28,000,000,000,000 - Scientists calculate that 111 fossil fuel companies caused the world $28 trillion in damage from 1991 to 2020 from extreme heat and climate change. Other scientists are mixed on their support for the assumptions used in the model. Still, the damage is in the trillions.
  - Nature, 23 April 2025

• Extreme weather disasters, increasing as the planet warms due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels, can reduce blood donations while increasing demand, a new analysis found
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 April 2025

• Trump wanting to help authoritarian Rossiya more than democratic Europe. Control by the USA over the trans-Ukrainian and Nord Stream pipelines could incentivize the EU into concessions on their trade war while whatever seized assets of Rossiya that the USA obtains legal ownership of from Moscow could serve to justify ramping up pressure on the bloc in this context.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 April 2025

• Natural gas exports from the USA to Zhōngguó are halted, after Beijing imposes taxes/tariffs in response to taxes/tariffs imposed by Trump. Zhōngguó can easily make up the difference by importing more natural gas from Rossiya.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 April 2025

• Trump's tax/tariff trade war threatens one of the top energy exports of the USA. Propane is among the most important products that the USA sells to Zhōngguó, which turns it into plastic and sells it back to the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 April 2025

• Editorial: Trump's tax/tariff per ton on ships from Zhōngguó doing at ports in the USA will create enormous headaches and costs for businesses and customers in the USA. And since a lot of natural gas in the USA is transported on such vessels, Trump's efforts will greatly help and please Rossiya and Qatar, which are huge suppliers of natural gas.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 April 2025

• Trump wants a 124-mile pipeline between New York and Pennsylvania for natural gas to be built. He has a big fight. The proposed natural-gas Constitution Pipeline for the Northeast poses "a serious threat to state sovereignty", 223 environmental and community groups argue in a letter to nine Northeast governors this week.
  - Barron's, 19 April 2025

• The oil and natural gas industries once rallied around Trump. That may be changing. The energy industry is moving to a fortress mentality in the face of prolonged lower oil prices.
  - Barron's, 19 April 2025

• The economic 'Achilles heel' of Mexico? Imports of natural gas by México from the USA are surging, kindling fears that the Trump administration could weaponize this trade.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 April 2025

• Climate change and global heating (due to the burning of fossil fuels) may significantly impact arsenic levels in paddy rice, a staple food for millions across Asia. The research shows that increased temperatures above , coupled with rising carbon dioxide levels, lead to higher concentrations of inorganic arsenic (iAs) in rice, potentially raising lifetime health risks for populations in Asia by 2050.
  - Phys.org, 16 April 2025

• Climate change and global heating (due to the burning of fossil fuels) may significantly impact arsenic levels in paddy rice, a staple food for millions across Asia. The research shows that increased temperatures above , coupled with rising carbon dioxide levels, lead to higher concentrations of inorganic arsenic (iAs) in rice, potentially raising lifetime health risks for populations in Asia by 2050.
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 16 April 2025

• Lee Zeldin, the head of the EPA, sounds the alarm on a rouge climate startup, Make Sunsets, that is launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide to geo-engineer the Earth. Quoting this ZH article: "Allowing rogue activists to play God with the climate is a disaster waiting to happen." [Allowing fossil fuel companies to play God with the CO2 emissions they profit from is a disaster already happening.]
  - Zero Hedge, 16 April 2025

• The length of deadly ocean heat waves has tripled, thanks to global heating caused by the burning of carbon-based fuels
  - The Guardian, 14 April 2025

• Trump wants to reverse the long decline of coal. It will not be easy to do so. Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy -- forces that Trump will struggle to do away with.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 April 2025

• The USA's trade deficit will not be eliminated by selling more oil and natural gas to trading partners
  - Zero Hedge, 13 April 2025

• Trump promised a golden age for oil and natural gas, but his taxes/tariff trade war undermines his pledge. Fractured trade relations and a potential global recession are poised to reduce international sales and domestic output of fossil fuels.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 April 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs threaten the status of the USA as an energy superpower. Fractured trade relations and a potential global recession are poised to reduce international sales and domestic output of fossil fuels.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 April 2025

• Zhōngguó has not imported liquefied natural gas from the USA for 60 days, the longest gap in five years, as worsening relations between Beijing and Washington lead the buyers in Zhōngguó to divert shipments it is receiving to other countries in Europe and Asia
  - Bloomberg, 07 April 2025

• The escalating trade war between the USA and Zhōngguó could increase liquefied natural gas flows to energy-stricken Europe, as Zhōngguó remains on a multi-month buying strike
  - Zero Hedge, 07 April 2025

• Allianz, one of the world's top insurers, warns that climate change and global heating, due to burning of fossil fuels, could destroy capitalism, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate. Without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.
  - The Guardian, 03 April 2025

• Global sea ice declines to a new low. The data comes after researchers reported that the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest on record due to global heating.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 March 2025

• The new head of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, appointed by Trump, , wants to turn the Environmental PROTECTION Agency into a child of the Department of Energy. "We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the USA, and more." That may be the mission of the Department of ENERGY, not the Environmental PROTECTION Agency.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 March 2025

• Natural gas prices in Europe jump after Ukraine destroys an important natural gas pumping station in Rossiya's' Kursk region
  - Zero Hedge, 21 March 2025

• The fossil fuel industry attacks environmental activists with success. Environmentalists are suffering under Trump's pro-fossil fuel and anti-climate actions, as they suffer big losses in courts to a very well-funded fossil fuel industry
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 March 2025

• People in Texas suffer health problems due to increased amounts of toxic pollution, as oil and natural gas production increases by energy companies. Millions of Texans now live within striking distance of oil infrastructure -- exposed to airborne chemicals, groundwater contamination and, in extreme cases, sudden, violent failures of aging wells, all of which creates public concern. Fracking is contaminating groundwater that people drink. In the Permian Basin, there are numerous pumpjacks and storage tanks dripping 'produced water', or wastewater resulting from the fracking process, on the soil, sometimes in close proximity to farms. This water can resurface tainted with salt, heavy metals, benzene, toxic 'forever; chemicals, and even radioactive isotopes. Deep injection wells also lubricate faults in the Earth, sometimes causing earthquakes bad enough to crack home walls and foundations. And air pollution can be even worse.
  - Nextstar Media's The Hill, 17 March 2025

• Qatar to supply natural gas to Syria via Arab pipeline through Jordan, and then onward to Europe, which will compete with increased natural gas shipments from the USA (a goal of Trump)
  - Zero Hedge, 17 March 2025

• Oil imports into Zhōngguó from Africa have dropped sharply in recent years, but investments by companies in Zhōngguó in liquified natural gas are booming, both to Zhōngguó meet its swelling demand and to cut its reliance on natural gas from Australia.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 15 March 2025

• Wildfires quickly spread across Texas and Oklahoma. The wildfires are fueled by dry conditions due to global heating caused by the burning of the oil and natural gas produced ... in Texas and Oklahoma.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 March 2025

• Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, due to global heating caused by the burning of oil, gasoline, coal and natural gas.
  - Disney's ABC News, 14 March 2025

• Trump's energy tax/tariff threats revive interest in a $44 billion natural gas project in Alaska, a new pipeline that would allow natural gas to be exported from Alaska, instead of from Houston through the Panama Canal.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 March 2025

• Scientists issue a critical warning after linking pollution from natural gas stoves in homes to a major health risk. The risk is due to nitrogen dioxide pollution causing asthma and premature deaths. "The problem is far worse than we thought."
  - The Cool Down, 13 March 2025

• In the USA in 2024, a record first - wind and solar accounted for 17% of total electricity generation, surpassing coal, which fell to a record low of 15%. Also in 2024, solar power generation surpassed hydropower generation for the time. It made up 81% of all new annual power capacity additions in the USA. Natural gas added no net capacity, as new plants were offset with closures.
  - Electrek, 11 March 2025

• On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected a lawsuit by Republican attorneys general that aimed at blocking left-wing lawsuits targeting energy companies for their alleged role in contributing to "global heating". The general claim by these lawsuits is that energy companies allegedly misled the public as to the environmental impact of their operations and products.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 March 2025

• Climate change and global heating, due to the burning of fossil fuels, caused heat waves in South Sudan to appear 10-times more often. For the last three weeks, extreme heat has settled over a large region of continental Eastern Africa, including parts of Kenya and Uganda. Residents have been told to stay indoors and drink water, a difficult directive for countries where many people work outdoors, electricity is sporadic, access to clean water is difficult and modest housing means there are few cooling systems.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 March 2025

• Trump wants to sell more natural gas. How Trump could send prices and profits down significantly. More than a dozen pending projects have been unleased, which could double U.S. export capacity by 2028, according to one estimate. Such an investment flood could lower prices.
  - Barron's, 08 March 2025

• Half of the CO2 emissions in the world come from 36 fossil fuel firms that are heavily subsidized by governments. Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis, instead of socialistically making taxpayers pay for remediation to fight global heating. The ten biggest oil companies impacting the environment are: [state-owned] Aramco, Coal India, CHN Energy, NIOC and Jinneng Group; (rich investor owned): ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies, BP.
  - The Guardian, 05 March 2025

• Global heating and rising temperatures are scrambling the base of the ocean food web. Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth -- just as global heating caused by fossil fuels is changing everything.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 March 2025

• The clean energy revolution is unstoppable. Trump is determined to promote fossil fuels, but the economic and technological forces driving solar, wind and other sources are now too powerful to resist.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 March 2025

• Austria, a long time buyer of natural gas from Rossiya, tries to end the habit
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 February 2025

• Oil and natural gas companies are lobbying the Trump administration to keep their subsidies for hydrogen, despite Trump's ambition to destroy Biden-era climate incentives.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 February 2025

• Data reports that a record quantity of liquid natural gas is being shipped from the USA to Europe
  - Zero Hedge, 21 February 2025

• Trump orders government agencies to fast-track hundreds of global-heating-causing fossil fuel projects, with Trump using the lie that there is a national energy emergency.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 February 2025

• The natural gas industry gets a payoff from its political donations/bribes to help get Trump re-elected. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a proposal from the nation's largest electric grid operator (PJM Interconnection) that could effectively give new natural gas power plants priority in connecting to the grid over renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 February 2025

• The current polar vortex over the USA forces the EIA to increase by 20% its prediction of natural gas prices in the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 12 February 2025

• BP vows a "fundamental reset" in strategy as profit plunges. The energy giant was vague on details, but analysts say the changes is likely to include less spending on renewable sources and a bigger investment in oil and natural gas production.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 February 2025

• BP vows a "fundamental reset" in strategy as profit plunges. The energy giant was vague on details, but analysts say the changes is likely to include less spending on renewable sources and a bigger investment in oil and natural gas production.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 February 2025

• Demand for oil in Europe is predicted to spike as natural gas prices surge beyond $100/barrel-equivalent, which makes burning oil more cost-effective than using natural gas
  - Zero Hedge, 11 February 2025

• An incoming polar blast of cold air into Europe sends natural gas prices in Europe to a two-year high, as inventories dwindle
  - Zero Hedge, 10 February 2025

• Volatility of natural gas prices blows out to record for March futures
  - Zero Hedge, 07 February 2025

• Adnoc Gas, one of the largest producers of natural gas in the world, reported market beating fourth-quarter net income as it benefited from a renegotiated contract with the Emirates Water and Electricity Company
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 February 2025

• Europe grapples with an energy crisis, three years after Rossiya invaded Ukraine
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 February 2025

• DeepSeek hit energy stocks such as Vistra. Many of these stocks are still expensive. Even after week's losses with Nasdaq companies, few AI-related power stocks look like bargains.
  - Barron's, 01 February 2025

• The European Union debates restarting natural gas purchases from Rossiya as part of a Ukraine peace deal. This has unsettled some USA LNG exporters seeking to sign long-term supply deals with European companies.
  - Zero Hedge, 31 January 2025

• Executives in the oil and natural gas industries welcomed Trump's early moves on energy policy , but many said they did not plan to increase production unless prices rose significantly. The oil industry is thrilled by Trump's executive orders, which are designed to make life harder for renewable energy companies and easier for oil, gas and pipeline businesses. The oil and natural gas industries, are happy to see Trump loosen the rules that govern extracting, transporting and exporting fuels while kneecapping the competition, including wind turbines, electric vehicles and other low-emissions technologies.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 January 2025

• Bharat is looking to expand its investments in the mining, gas and oil sectors of Argentina, with a focus on lithium, to secure resources needed for the energy transition in Bharat
  - Thomson's Reuters, 29 January 2025

• Insurance companies are financing oil and natural gas -- even as climate change is pummeling their bottom line. Insurers have long been aware of the risk of climate change, and yet in the USA, the insurance companies have done little to help mitigate the causes of climate change and global heating.
  - Fast Company, 29 January 2025

• DeepSeek's breakthroughs with lower-cost AI is upending electric-power trading strategies on Wall Street. The selloff extended to shares of natural-gas producers, pipeline operators, mining companies, and electricity generators.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 January 2025

• A coincidence after Trump threatens to seize Greenland from Denmark? In a very unexpected development Denmark is now working directly with Russia's Gazprom to do environmental mitigation on the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, in the wake of the multiple underwater blasts that took them offline on September 26, 2022 - leading to years of accusations against Moscow and a Russia-West tit-for-tat.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 January 2025

• Why oil industry jobs are down, even with production up. The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 January 2025

• Trump allows many lobbyists from the oil, natural gas and chemical industries - polluters of the environment - to be appointed to the Environmental PROTECTION Agency .
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 January 2025

• Gazprom in turmoil, forced to hike prices of natural gas for people in Rossiya in the middle of winter. Gazprom's management is reportedly demanding that the Kremlin raise gas prices threefold on the domestic market. Gas in Rossiya used to be cheap, but everything changed after the invasion of Ukraine.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 January 2025

• Oil, coal and natural gas companies should help pay for the costliest wildfires the history of the USA now occurring in Los Angeles. Coal, oil and gas companies that have contributed substantially to the conditions fueling this and other climate disasters. Major oil and gas companies have known for decades that burning their products could lead to "potentially catastrophic events", like the higher temperatures and abnormally dry conditions that fed the fires still being battled in Los Angeles. Exxon scientists warned about this internally starting in the 1970s. Instead of disclosing these risks, big oil companies deliberately misled the public, policymakers and investors. According to a years-long congressional investigation, even as these companies publicly pledged to meaningfully contribute to a transition away from fossil fuels, they were privately working to continue production for decades to come.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 January 2025

• Heat pumps are outselling natural gas furnaces in the USA. Heat pumps provide three to four times more heat per dollar spent than oil- or gas-fired heating equipment or old fashioned electric baseboard heat. They also create far less carbon pollution.
  - Clean Technica, 24 January 2025

• Trump, issues executive orders designed to stop the country from tranisitioning to renewable energy. This will also benefit Zhōngguó as it successfully takes control of another global industry.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 January 2025

• Renewable energy giants shrug off Trump's anti-wind energy policies: "Electrification is absolutely unstoppable."
  - Comcast's CNBC, 22 January 2025

• Rossiya is likely to supply up to 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Iran each year, as it seeks new markets following a substantial decline in gas exports to Europe
  - GlobalData, 20 January 2025

• $285,000,000 - GAIL, a utility company owned by the government of Bharat, has reached a $285m settlement in a claim against SEFE Marketing & Trading Singapore, a former unit of energy company Gazprom based in Rossiya, for non-delivery of liquefied natural gas under a long-term contract.
  - GlobalData, 20 January 2025

• South Korea considers increasing its purchases of oil and natural gas from the USA to appease Trump
  - Zero Hedge, 18 January 2025

• "Oil is no longer an energy security challenge -- it is going to be natural gas, electricity, predominantly rare earth minerals", of which Zhōngguó controls roughly 60% of the world's production
  - Comcast's CNBC, 15 January 2025

• Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced a new mineral investment project valued at $100 billion, with $20 billion already in the final engineering phase or under construction. Saudi Arabia last year increased the valuation of its unexploited mineral resources from $1.3 trillion to $2.5 trillion, boosted by the discovery of rare earth elements and metals.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 15 January 2025

• Goldman Sachs: a "cold January" and "record LNG demand" drive upside for natural gas prices
  - Zero Hedge, 11 January 2025

• 2024 was the first year above 1.5 degress Centigrade of global heating above pre-industrial times, due to the burning of oil, coal and natural gas
  - Thomson's Reuters, 09 January 2025

• Europe rushes to refill inventories as natural gas reserves dwindle. Europe is rapidly depleting its gas reserves due to a harsh winter and the halt of Russian gas flows via Ukraine.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 January 2025

• Goldman Sachs see "significant risks" that natural gas prices will rise in Europe amid a wave of cold weather in Europe
  - Zero Hedge, 04 January 2025

• Ukraine halts the flow of natural gas from Rossiya to Europe. A transnational pipeline was shut down on Wednesday after Kyiv refused to renew a prewar agreement that allowed for the transit of natural gas from Rossiya through Ukraine.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 January 2025

• Ukraine halts the flow of natural gas from Rossiya to Europe. A transnational pipeline was shut down on Wednesday after Kyiv refused to renew a prewar agreement that allowed for the transit of natural gas from Rossiya through Ukraine.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 January 2025

• According to an October 2024 study published in Nature Geoscience, vegetation is taking over the Antarctic Peninsula, turning its edges into a verdant landscape. This is an ominous warning of faster vegetation growth that evidences the effects of global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - SF Gate, 30 December 2024

• Prices of natural gas futures spike ahead of forecasted "historic gold" in the eastern USA
  - Zero Hedge, 30 December 2024

• Ukraine receives first ever shipment of natural gas from the USA as it cuts energy ties with Rossiya
  - Zero Hedge, 29 December 2024

• Natural gas prices soar as Putin says that a new transit deal through Ukraine is unlikely
  - Zero Hedge, 29 December 2024

• Can the insurance industry survive global heating due to fossil fuel burning? In one scenario, vulnerable parts of the world become completely uninsurable, and economic and/or natural forces dismantle communities, as natural catastrophes cause more and more multi-billion payouts for insurance claims.
  - Anthropocene, 28 December 2024

• The state of New York passes a law that will penalize fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate. The law is intended to capitalistically shift some of the recovery and adaptation costs of climate change from individual taxpayers to oil, gas and coal companies that the law says are liable.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 26 December 2024

• The state of New York passes a law that will penalize fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate. The law is intended to capitalistically shift some of the socialist recovery and adaptation costs of climate change from individual taxpayers to socialist oil, gas and coal companies that the law says are liable.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 December 2024

• High electricity taxes are crippling industries in Europe. Power prices in the EU are up to three times higher than in the USA.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 December 2024

• The energy crisis in oil-rich Iran hits a 'dire point' as industries are forced to shut down. Although Iran has one of the biggest supplies of natural gas and crude oil in the world, it finds itself in a full blown energy emergency, coming just as it also suffers major geopolitical setbacks. The energy crisis is due, in part, to years of sanctions, mismanagement, aging infrastructure, and wasteful consumption. An industry leader said that the situation was catastrophic and unlike anything industries had ever experienced.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 December 2024

• Demand for U.S. natural gas to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export this year is headed for its first decline since the country started exporting the super-chilled fuel from the lower 48 states eight years ago. LNG plant outages and delays in construction of new plants have reduced demand so far this year, LSEG data showed. But the industry expects this year's decline to be just a blip, with U.S. LNG capacity seen more than doubling over the next four years.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 20 December 2024

• Trump said he told the European Union it must reduce its trade gap with the U.S. through oil and gas purchases or face tariffs.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 20 December 2024

• Trump said he told the European Union it must reduce its trade gap with the U.S. through oil and gas purchases or face tariffs.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 December 2024

• The global burning of coal is expected to reach a fresh high of 8.7 billion tons this year, and remain at near-record levels for years as a result of a global natural gas crisis triggered by the invasion of Ukraine by Rossiya.
  - The Guardian, 18 December 2024

• New natural gas exports to Asia could mean billions of dollars for indigenous people in Canada. Some fear the cost. New export terminals along the rugged Pacific coastline have reignited a generations-old debate over identity and environmental stewardship.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 December 2024

• Electric power prices and natural gas prices jump in Germany, amid weak generation of windpower
  - Zero Hedge, 13 December 2024

• Exxon, the largest oil producer in the USA, is designing a natural gas power plant outfitted with carbon capture technology to meet the voracious power demand of technology companies
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 December 2024

• The demain for oil in Zhōngguó could peak in 2025. Oil demand in Zhōngguó, the world's top crude oil importer, could peak as early as 2025 as the penetration of electric vehicles and LNG trucks is accelerating, state-owned Zhōngguó National Petroleum Corporation said on Tuesday.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 December 2024

• BP will merge its offshore wind-energy business with that of Japanese power-utility JERA to create a standalone company, in line with BP's strategy to focus on its more profitable oil-and-gas operations.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 December 2024

• Ecopetrol confirms the discovery of the largest find of natural gas in the history of Colombia
  - Rigzone, 09 December 2024

• A natural gas trade, known as the "widowmaker" due to its extreme volatility, has gone negative at the earliest point in the season in nine years. This signals that the market has abandoned expectations for higher prices across the Lower 48 this winter. The spread between March and April natural gas futures flipped last week, marking the earliest point for such a seasonal turn in nine years.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 December 2024

• Industrial corporations in Europe are predicted to lose further competitiveness as high energy prices, rising natural gas prices, and concerns about gas supply this winter are increasing uncertainty about factory utilization amid rising costs.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 December 2024

• Carrboro, a town in North Carolina, sues Duke Energy over climate change and global heating. Carrboro accused Duke, one the largest utility companies in the USA, of ignoring data about climate change and global heating while increasing use of fossil fuels, often in disadvantaged communities. The town said that Duke Energy's actions were costing its residents millions of dollars because climate change and global heating had increased damage from floods and other extreme weather - Duke profits by having others pay for the damages.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 December 2024

• Another useless UN environmental summit. A summit to create a UN plastics treaty collapse without a deal. It was a disappointing conclusion to a summit that many hoped would yield a landmark treaty to tackle a worsening global plastic pollution crisis. At the heart of the disagreement was a refusal by oil-rich nations led by Saudi Arabia to accept a deal that put limits on plastic production. The vast majority of plastic is made from oil or natural gas.
  - Zero Hedge, 01 December 2024

• Another useless UN environmental summit. A summit to create a UN plastics treaty collapse without a deal. It was a disappointing conclusion to a summit that many hoped would yield a landmark treaty to tackle a worsening global plastic pollution crisis. At the heart of the disagreement was a refusal by oil-rich nations led by Saudi Arabia to accept a deal that put limits on plastic production. The vast majority of plastic is made from oil or natural gas.
  - BBC, 01 December 2024

• Natural gas inventories in Europe have depleted at the fastest rate for eight years, as the region has experienced repeated bouts of colder-than-normal temperatures and low wind speeds since the start of the winter heating season.
  - Zero Hedge, 30 November 2024

• New satellite images show where super-polluters are venting methane / natural gas, an invisible planet-heating gas into the atmosphere. MethaneSAT's early findings are that the oil and gas industry is belching the gas at a rate three to five times higher on average than what the Environmental Protection Agency has estimated, and way beyond the rate the industry itself pretended to agreed to in 2023. Big profits as the planet careens toward what scientists warn could be irreversible climate change impacts.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 27 November 2024

• Trump prepares a wide-ranging plan to refill the national SPR oil reserve, boost oil drilling and LNG exports
  - Zero Hedge, 25 November 2024

• Data centers powering artificial intelligence to make companies richer by destroying paid-human jobs, could use more electricity than entire cities. This will drive up electricity costs for poorer humans, and worsen global heating. Natural gas will be needed even more.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 23 November 2024

• Exports from the USA of liquid natural gas to Europe are predicted to surge as natural gas prices in Europe soar
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 November 2024

• Natural gas prices in the USA hit the highest prices in a year, on a "very cold pattern developing in the lower 48 states"
  - Zero Hedge, 21 November 2024

• The prices of natural gas at the key regional hubs in the USA Pacific Northwest and Western Canada have hit this year the lowest level on record, amid rising production and high inventory levels in these regions.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 November 2024

• A natural gas pipeline between Zhōngguó and Rossiya is completed, set to send natural gas to Shanghai by the end of 2024
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 18 November 2024

• Russiya is considering to build another natural gas pipeline to Zhōngguó, this time via Kazakhstan, capable of delivering up to 35 bcm of natural gas annually.
  - Zero Hedge, 15 November 2024

• A new report forecasts temperature increases due to global heating well above the level that world leaders have pledged to avoid. The report by the Climate Action Tracker, a research group, estimates that the climate and energy policies currently pursued by governments around the world would cause global temperatures to rise roughly 2.7 degrees Celsius, or 4.9 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 2100. The lie of the 2015 Paris Agreement was a goal of 1.5 to 2.0 degress Celsius. The world is still heading for significant warming because global energy demand is growing faster than clean energy is expanding, which means fossil fuel use has been rising to fill the gap.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 November 2024

• Global carbon dioxide emissions, a big cause of global heating, are rising to record highs. Countries promised to move away from coal, oil and natural gas at last year's waste-of-time summit. New research shows that many countries are burning more fossil fuels than ever before.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 November 2024

• The government of Norway acts to take control over the export network for natural gas
  - Zero Hedge, 13 November 2024

• The Biden administration is imposing a tax on large energy companies that spew excess methane, a potent greenhouse gas - a "superpollutant". Republicans, not interested in protecting the environment, may be able to repeal it in the new Trump administration .
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 November 2024

• Even as Earth sets new records for global heating, people this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year, with Zhōngguó leading the world in carbon emissions, exploiting its opportunity to grow its economy burning fossil fuels as did Europe and North America
  - Associated Press, 12 November 2024

• How bad are natural gas stoves for your health? They emit harmful pollutants, which makes good ventilation crucial. Residents of the European Union and Britain are twice as likely to die prematurely from exposure to gas stove pollutants than from a car crash.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 November 2024

• Adnoc Gas, owned by Abu Dhabi, and one of the biggest natural-gas producers in the world, predicts a jump in earnings by 2029 as it boosts supply to capitalize on growing demand for natural gas.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 November 2024

• An estimate of the total cost of damage from climate-related extreme weather events globally was approximately $2 trillion between 2014 and 2023, extreme weather events caused by global heating due to burning of fossil fuels that profits the socialist fossil fuel industry.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 10 November 2024

• The sustainable giant fish harvest in the Amazon is threatened by severe drought caused by global heating. Two years of drought has fishermen and indigenous communities requesting government aid, in what is being called a matter of climate justice, as these people suffer .
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 09 November 2024

• "A total waste of time": why Papua New Guinea withdrew from COP29 and why climate advocates are worried. The foreign minister of Papua New Guinea argues that UN climate summits have produced "no results" as the country takes the rate step of withdrawing from the upcoming COPY29 summit. Cop, the UN's annual year-ending climate fiesta, has faced persistent criticism that big-emitting countries have not done enough to take meaningful climate action. "The last three Cop meetings have gone around in circles, producing no tangible results for small island states. COP29 will be no different, so Papua New Guinea will not participate at the political level."
  - The Guardian, 08 November 2024

• The CEO of (the useless) COP29 environmental summit is filmed agreeing to facilitate global-heating fossil fuel deals at the climate summit. Elnur Soltanov recorded speaking with fake oil and gas group that asked for deals in exchange for sponsoring talks. Soltanov is the deputy energy minister of Azerbaijan, agreed to these deals, and spoke of a future that includes global-heating fossil fuels "perhaps for ever".
  - The Guardian, 08 November 2024

• The Trump victory sets back the world's attempt to rein in dangerous levels of heating and potentially isolates the United States in the global energy transition, given Trump's and Republican's paid-for hostility to global heating and love of huge subsidies to the fossil fuel industry
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 November 2024

• Solar and wind are rolling out rapidly in the USA. They account for about 19 percent of energy generation today, and could reach more than 40% by 2030. This clean energy will rapidly replace coal, and many expect it will simply replace natural gas as well. But that is a mistake: In fact, solar and wind will depend on gas for decades to come. This is because natural gas is needed to generate power at night or when the wind isn't blowing.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 November 2024

• 2024 will be the first year on record to surpass the Paris Agreement's goal to keep global heating under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a level under which countries could prevent cascading and worsening impacts such as droughts, heat waves and catastrophic sea level rise. Scientists warn at that level, the human-caused climate crisis -- fueled by heat-trapping fossil fuel pollution -- begins to exceed the ability of humans and the natural world to adapt.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 November 2024

• Canada acts to limit the carbon emissions of the oil and natural gas industry. The Trudeau government has focused on the oil and natural gas production industries because the large amounts of energy they use make them the largest source in Canada of greenhouse gases that cause global heating.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 November 2024

• Why heat waves of the future, caused by global heating , may be even deadlier than feared. The human body's cooling defenses fail at lower "wet bulb" temperatures than scientist had estimated.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 November 2024

• The natural gas crisis in Europe is not over, despite full storage. Despite high storage levels, natural gas prices in Europe remain volatile due to supply disruptions.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 November 2024

• How a year of rain fell on parts of Spain in eight hours. The region is no stranger to storms like those that caused this week's deluges. But global heating caused by burning fossil fuels helps the storms become more destructive.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 November 2024

• Climate change caused by global heating due to fossil fuel burning is making disasters deadlier. More than half a million people were killed in 10 disasters in the last 20 years that climate change worsened, according to a new report.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 November 2024

• The meteorological data recorded over the past two decades by sensors of the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory facilities point to a rise of 1.1 degree Centigrade in the average temperature due to global heating. The analysis, led by UAB researchers, shows more than double the increase predicted by climate models for the same area, and even more than expected for the next 20 years.
  - Phys.org, 31 October 2024

• One of the driest months in United States history is coming to a close after causing the worst drought in more than 20 years in parts of the East as temperatures soar well above average there. But an upcoming pattern flip could change things as the weather seesaws in the USA from one extreme to the next -- a telltale sign of the increasing weather extremes as the planet heats up .
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 31 October 2024

• In 2023, there were a record level of deaths due to extreme heat. Heat-related deaths, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the global heating climate crisis have reached record levels. "The relentless expansion of fossil fuels and record-breaking greenhouse gas emissions compounds these dangerous health impacts, and is threatening to reverse the limited progress made so far and put a healthy future further out of reach."
  - Zero Hedge, 30 October 2024

• How dangerous are natural gas stoves? A new study in Spain found that residents of the European Union and Britain are twice as likely to die prematurely from exposure to gas stove pollutants than from a car crash. According to the researchers, gas stoves are estimated to lead to 40,000 premature deaths each year in the European Union and Britain, shaving off roughly two years of an average person's life span. In the same region, gas stoves have led to more than a million annual asthma cases. Those cases in children alone cost an estimated $4.3 billion in additional health spending. Along with greenhouse gas emissions, burning natural gas produces pollutants that can damage health. One is nitrogen oxide, a lung irritant and asthma trigger that can worsen an existing condition or lead to new cases of asthma. Another is benzene, a known human carcinogen, that can reach levels above health benchmarks when released from indoor gas stoves.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 October 2024

• Increased use of natural gas for power generation has made the USA more dependent on fossil fuels for its electricity supply this year than Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 October 2024

• Natural gas production from shale and tight formations in the USA, which accounts for 79% of dry natural gas production, decreased slightly in the first nine months of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, the first decline since 2000.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 October 2024

• A few days after Goldman Sach's Thomas Evans advised clients to "keep pressing shorts" on natural gas through December, the NatGas futures market in New York exploded Thursday, spiking up to 10%. Another Goldman analyst wrote on Friday morning that the magnitude of this surge signals "short CTA/positioning unwinds." The price surge may have been sparked by a new cold weather forecast for the Lower 48 and or reports of multiple outages stretching from Norway to the US, heightening concerns about a market tightening ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 October 2024

• Mild weather across the Lower 48 states of the USA has capped natural gas demand, keeping futures locked in a bearish sideways trend, unable to breach the $3 per million British thermal units level.
  - Zero Hedge, 21 October 2024

• Rossiya appears to be trying to evade Western sanctions on its liquid natural gas tanker fleet by transferring ownership of vessels to a newly-created firm based in a free trade zone in Dubai.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 October 2024

• Countries in Africa plan to launch their own 'energy bank'. African resource-rich countries have grown frustrated with Western banks' refusal to lend money for the development of oil and natural gas fields.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 October 2024

• Rossiya informed Austria that it is suspending natural gas deliveries starting this Saturday, in a development that signals a fast approaching end of Moscow's last remaining natural gas flows to Europe. Austria has been preparing for the eventual cut-off of natural gas from Rossiya and it can still obtain natural gas by importing via Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 15 October 2024

• In a first, a gas utility is sued over global heating deception. The Oregon lawsuit, filed by state officials, alleges that a utility, NW Natural, knew of the dangers of burning fossil fuels and misled its customers. The company joins Exxon, Shell and other fossil fuel companies as defendants in the lawsuit. The complaint alleges that Exxon, Shell and other companies, now including NW Natural, had schemed to "rapaciously" sell fossil fuel products and cover up what they knew about the risks to the planet, and that the companies bear responsibility for the effects of climate change including a deadly heat wave in 2021 that killed at least 69 county residents.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 October 2024

• The warm winter last year in the USA likely means cheaper natural gas for heating this year. An abundance of natural gas has kept prices low heading into the heating season.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 October 2024

• Natural gas investors who are bullish can rejoice: A colder winter is predicted for the contintental USA, which may "place upward pressure" on natural gas prices, which have been trending in a multi-year slump due to elevated supplies and unusually warm weather
  - Zero Hedge, 09 October 2024

• The Alpe du Grand Serre ski station in southeastern France's Isere region to close as snow shortage leaves it struggling to build a future. The resort, near the higher altitude Alpe d'Huez, is one of several lower lying ski destinations in Europe to face an existential reckoning over the past couple of years as global heating, driven by humans burning fossil fuels, brings warmer, shorter winters.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 October 2024

• Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar energy generation in Knox County, Ohio. The hometown newspaper is helping. After the local paper was sold to Metric Media, part of a 'pink slime' network, the Mount Vernon News published one-sided coverage and dubious claims about solar power. Opposition to solar was stoked by a group whose major donor -- a retired natural gas-industry executive -- also leads a pro-gas dark-money organization.
  - ProPublica, 08 October 2024

• The use of natural gas for power generation in the USA records record highs this summer, of joy to those who celebrate global heating
  - Zero Hedge, 08 October 2024

• Ukraine will not extend its gas transit agreement with Russia after its expiration in December 2024
  - Zero Hedge, 07 October 2024

• Hurricane Milton is supercharged by hot Gulf waters (warmed by global heating due to burning fossil fuels) to a Category 5 superstorm, potentially rivalling a destructive 1848 hurricane
  - Zero Hedge, 07 October 2024

• Big Oil urges Trump not to eliminate the huge subsidies they receive due to Biden's climate law. Oil companies try to persuade the former president and his Republican allies not to slash the subsidies provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act potentially worth billions of dollars of subsidies.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 October 2024

• Oil and natural gas output slides, squeezed by lower prices. Oil production growth in the USA continues to slow in response to the fall in prices, as the initial shock from Rossiya's invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions imposed in response more than two years ago fades.
  - Zero Hedge, 01 October 2024

• Private equity firms are investing billions of dollars into the fossil fuel industry, analysis reveals, seeking to profit from the destruction of the environment. USA public sector worker's retirement savings in pension funds are being invested in projects that pump out a billion ton of emissions a year - profits from hedge funds, clean-up costs paid by taxpayers.
  - The Guardian, 01 October 2024

• Goldman Sachs: watch for a massive squeeze in energy after the biggest shorting frenzy in five years. At a time when everything is melting up, the one place where hedge funds are furiously piling on shorts, is energy: as usual, it will explode in their face.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 September 2024

• The two big insurers still betting on fossil fuels. Most companies have cut back on oil, gas and coal investments after big climate-related losses. But State Farm and Berkshire Hathaway's insurance companies increased theirs. Insurers have been pricing in the risks of events such as wildfires and passing the costs on to their customers.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 September 2024

• Rossiya is accelerating its natural gas exports to Zhōngguó through the Power of Siberia pipeline, aiming to hit maximum capacity by the end of 2024... a full year ahead of schedule
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 September 2024

• Satellite data shows that the fossil fuel industry in the USA is releasing into the atmosphere more and more of methane, a potent gas for worsening global heating, researchers said, despite pledges to cut back. Apparently the fossil fuel industry want to burn-up their planet ever quicker to earn more money .
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 September 2024

• The big energy issue in Pennsylvania is low natural gas prices, not fracking. Energy businesses and farmers in western Pennsylvania are struggling because of prices, an issue that has not figured prominently in the campaigns of Trump and Kamala Harris.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 September 2024

• Floods devastate west and central Africa. Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed, with 1 million people forced to leave their homes in Nigeria, Mali, and Chad. Another consequence of global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 September 2024

• Floods brought on by days of heavy rainfalls have been ravaging countries in Central and Eastern Europe including Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic and Austria. Another consequence of global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 16 September 2024

• Why natural gas prices will stay under pressure. A hot summer and production curtailments have not been enough to eliminate the surplus natural gas in storage facilities in the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 September 2024

• Rossiya could lose $6.5 billion a year if Ukraine doesn't renew a natural gas pipeline deal at the end of the year
  - Business Insider, 12 September 2024

• Trillions of USA dollars are "greenwashed" by banks extending loans and credit lines to subsidiaries of fossil fuel companies in secrecy jurisdictions, thus helping hide the true scale of banking support for oil, natural gas, and coal. The analysis of the fossil fuel financing of the world's largest 60 banks revealed that 68% of the fossil fuel financing provided by these banks is being granted to subsidiaries in secrecy jurisdictions.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 September 2024

• Natural gas and coal dominate fuel for the USA electrical grid despite efforts to transition to renewable energy. "Natural gas is the only cost-efficient energy generation capable of providing the type of 24/7 reliable power required."
  - Zero Hedge, 11 September 2024

• Pollution from the potent warming gas methane soars and people are mostly to blame, greatly worsening global heating. Humans cause methane emissions by burning fossil fuels, engaging in large-scale agriculture and filling up landfills.
  - Associated Press, 10 September 2024

• A powerful drought in the Amazon rainforest led on Monday to the lowest water levels on the Paraguay River in more than a century, disrupting commerce on the major waterway, creating hazards for local transport and offering a grim warning for other parts of the world about the dangers of global heating due to burning fossil fuels.
  - Associated Press, 09 September 2024

• Heat waves, the killer climate disaster that are not named (caused by global heating ). In typical years, more people in the USA die in heat waves than in hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 September 2024

• So much for 'powerful' USA sanctions: Rossiya surpasses the USA for natural gas exports to the European Union
  - Zero Hedge, 03 September 2024

• News sources in Ukraine have reported that starting January 2025, the transit of oil from Rossiya through the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine will be halted, along with the transit of natural gas. This is yet more geopolitical risk premium for European energy markets ahead of the Northern Hemisphere heating season.
  - Zero Hedge, 30 August 2024

• How Nihon ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire. Nihon's championing of natural gas earned it a $14 billion profit last year, while entrenching dependence on a fossil fuel as experts urge a faster shift to renewables.
  - Bloomberg, 29 August 2024

• Zhōngguó is rethinking its pipeline plans with Rossiya. Turkmenistan is emerging as a favored gas supplier for Zhōngguó, with increased cooperation and higher gas export revenue compared to Rossiya in 2024. Experts suggest that Zhōngguó considers Turkmenistan as a more manageable partner for energy projects, given its political landscape and simpler economy.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 August 2024

• Wildfires in Canada produced more planet-warming carbon than almost any country, researchers found. That could upend key calculations on the pace of global heating. The wildfires that ravaged the boreal forests in Canada in 2023 produced more planet-warming carbon emissions than the burning of fossil fuels in all but three countries. While the hot and dry weather that fueled the fires in Canada last year was extraordinary when compared with historical records, climate projections suggest it will become common in the 2050s if the world continues on the current trajectory of global heating due to burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 August 2024

• Heat deaths due to global heating caused by burning fossil fuels have doubled in the USA in recent decades
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 August 2024

• The electric grid in the USA adds batteries at 10-times the rate of natural gas in the first half of 2014. By the end of 2024, 96 percent of the grid additions in the USA will not add carbon to the atmosphere.
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 26 August 2024

• Crude oil holds above $72 per barrel after erasing most of 2024 gain. The USA benchmark is now up just 0.91% for the year, while Brent has erased all of its gain for 2024. Demand is slowing in Zhōngguó as drivers switch from gas to electric vehicles and trucks transition to liquid natural gas from diesel.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 August 2024

• Goldman Sachs predicts that the natural gas rally in Europe is "overdone" as gas flows through Ukraine
  - Zero Hedge, 21 August 2024

• A natural-gas glut is forcing drillers to dial back - again. An oversupply of the power-plant fuel persists despite some of the hottest weather on record.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 August 2024

• Con Edison charges nearly 100% more for gas delivery to some customers in New York City than rival National Grid, according to Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres, who said a new study by his office exposes the energy "hidden overcharges".
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 17 August 2024

• One consequence of the struggle between USA and Iran: if Iran blockades the Strait of Hormuz (only 3.2 kilometers wide at narrowest point), through which 40% of global oil supplies flow, and 33% of global LNG supplies, oil prices will skyrocket - to as much as $400/barrel, and the global economy will go into a depression
  - Zero Hedge, 14 August 2024

• Natural gas has traded at negative prices for weeks at a time in West Texas, where pipelines often lack the capacity to get the fuel to places that need it.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 August 2024

• Strange bedfellows: Gazprom continues to export natural gas to Europe from Rossiya, using pipelines in Ukraine, while Rossiya and Ukraine are at war
  - Zero Hedge, 09 August 2024

• Producers of natural gas in the USA are considering more reductions in output, after prices have declined almost 40% in the last two months
  - Thomson's Reuters, 07 August 2024

• Business model failures of green-energy revive bets on natural gas. European energy giants Shell and BP are sticking to their core business as clean-energy investments make slow progress.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 August 2024

• Electricity generators in the USA consumed a record amount of natural gas in the first four months of the year as prices slumped to the lowest level in real terms for more than half a century.
  - Zero Hedge, 05 August 2024

• Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising emissions of fossil fuels - oil, coal, natural gas. The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends in large part on these structures: the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica, the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic currents that warm Europe.
  - The Hill, 02 August 2024

• A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study -- a planetary-scale disaster that would transform weather and climate. Several studies in recent years have suggested the crucial system -- the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation -- could be on course for collapse, weakened by warmer ocean temperatures and disrupted saltiness caused by human-induced climate change. In the decades after a collapse, Arctic ice would start creeping south, and after 100 years, would extend all the way down to the southern coast of England. The average temperature of Europe would plunge, as would the temperature of North America -- including parts of the USA. The Amazon rainforest would see a complete reversal in its seasons; the current dry season would become the rainy months, and vice versa.
  - The Hill, 02 August 2024

• The USA hits a record high level of the generation of electricity using natural gas
  - Zero Hedge, 25 July 2024

• A surge in new oil and gas production in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12 billion tons of planet-heating emissions, with the world's wealthiest countries -- such as the US and the UK -- leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate lies commitments, new data reveals.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 24 July 2024

• As the fossil fuel industries continue to bribe politicians to deny global heating, the planet shatters the heat record of the hotest temperature for the second time in two days, hitting an average surface temperature of 17.15 degrees C (62.87 degrees F)
  - Comcast's CNBC, 24 July 2024

• Woodside Energy Group has agreed to buy troubled USA liquefied natural gas export project developer Tellurian for about $900 million in a bet on rapid growth in global demand for natural gas
  - Bloomberg, 22 July 2024

• Africa emerges as focal point in global oil and gas exploration. Global oil and gas exploration is increasingly concentrated in "core" areas like Guyana and Namibia, where recent discoveries have been made.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 July 2024

• The European Union is facing a looming crisis over supplies of natural gas. To replace Russian gas, the EU will need to increase LNG imports and utilize alternative pipelines, such as the Trans-Balkan pipeline and the Balkan Stream.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 July 2024

• $242,000,000 - Marathon Oil agrees to record penalty for alleged Clean Air Act violations. The company will spend $242 million to resolve allegations that it released methane, a greenhouse gas, and other pollutants in North Dakota.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 July 2024

• Heat in Las Vegas breaks records and stuns even the forecasters. A brutal heat wave that has gripped the West for days will shift eastward on the weekend, while much of sweltering Houston still lacks electricity.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 July 2024

• "More heat, more often": temperature records keep breaking. The burning of fossil fuels has created more frequent and more intense heat waves. Experts warn these heat waves are "the new normal". Republican politicians, bribed/lobbied by the fossil fuel industry, deny all of this warming of their Earth.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 July 2024

• Honeywell strikes $1.8 billion deal for liquefied natural gas business. Honeywell will buy the Air Products unit in its fourth acquisition in recent months as natural-gas demand grows.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 July 2024

• Is Saudi Arabia planning to become a global leader in natural gas? Saudi Arabia aims to become a major natural gas exporter by 2030. Saudi Aramco announced over $25 billion in contracts for gas sector expansion.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 July 2024

• Futures for natural gas on track for a more than 50% gain from April to June
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 27 June 2024

• Rossiya appears to be amassing a dark fleet to ship liquid natural gas. "There are several indications pointing to efforts by Russia to create a dark fleet for LNG."
  - Zero Hedge, 27 June 2024

• State prosecutors in Arizona could reasonably file homicide charges against Big Oil companies for deaths caused by a July 2023 heatwave, lawyers wrote in a new prosecution memorandum.
  - The Guardian, 26 June 2024

• Saudia Aramco plans to buy 25% of a liquid natural gas project in the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 26 June 2024

• Efforts to reduce global heating by reducing the burning of oil, coal and natural gas are helping to increase global heating. Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun's rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.
  - Bezos' Washington Post, 25 June 2024

• Soaring costs put new LNG export projects in the USA at risk of delays. Surging labor and construction costs are plaguing some major U.S. LNG export projects, threatening to delay new LNG supply to international markets.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 June 2024

• The European Union will ban re-exports of liquid natural gas from Rossiya
  - Zero Hedge, 21 June 2024

• The European Union will ban re-exports of liquid natural gas from Rossiya
  - Zero Hedge, 21 June 2024

• Nearly 100 million under temperature advisories as a heat wave of moer than 90 degrees lingers in the USA, due to global heating caused by the use of oil, natural gas and coal. The heat is expected to peak over the weekend in the Northeast, but not until early next week in the South and the Great Plains, according to the National Weather Service.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 June 2024

• Global heating caused by the burning of oil, natural gas and coal made the recent heat wave in the USA and Mexico more likely. Extreme heat across parts of Central America and the Southern United States in May and early June was 35 times more likely because of human-caused global heating.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 June 2024

• To benefit investors and companies, Republican politicians in Texas have added at least $38 billion to the cost of electricity through higher bills or higher taxes since 2019. Instead of restoring grid reliability by ending subsidies for wind and solar farms, they started flinging taxpayer money at natural gas and other dispatchable generation.
  - Master Resource, 20 June 2024

• Rossiya resumes its leading role in supplying natural gas to Europe, its market share again higher than that of the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 16 June 2024

• Natural gas supplies in Europe are at some risk, despite storage levels at record highs. Prices have jumped by 40% over the last three months.
  - Zero Hedge, 14 June 2024

• End all energy subsidies now! The energy crisis is decades past, and technology advances in oil and natural gas drilling have yielded booming supplies, allowing the U.S. to become a major oil and natural gas exporter. So maybe it is time (or past time) to end the dense and expensive thicket of federal energy market interventions (including subsidies and mandates for wind, solar, ethanol, electric vehicles, plus fuel economy standards).
  - Master Resource, 13 June 2024

• Oil and gas revenues for Rossiya surged by 73.5% from January to May of 2024, while other revenues were up 34%
  - Zero Hedge, 10 June 2024

• The heat wave scenario that keeps climate scientists up at night. What if, instead, the electricity goes out for several days during a blistering summer heat wave in a city that depends on air-conditioning? Especially if it happens in an already hot city such as Houston, in Texas, where state politicians take donations/bribes from the fossil fuel industry to deny climate change.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 June 2024

• Zhōngguó is the world's biggest extract of materials (fossil fuels, metal ores, non-metallic minerals) at 34 billion tons in 2023, followed by Bharat at 8 billion tons and the USA with 8 billion tons, and Brazil at 5 billion tons
  - Zero Hedge, 08 June 2024

• Lower prices for liquid natural gas speeds shift away from oil for heavy duty trucks in Zhōngguó
  - Bloomberg, 08 June 2024

• Sinopec, based in Zhōngguó, will build natural gas pipelines in Saudi Arabia for Saudi Aramco, in a deal with $1 billion
  - Zero Hedge, 07 June 2024

• Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced, officials say
  - CBS News, 06 June 2024

• The toll to pass through the Panama Canal for natural gas carriers rises to $1 million. But data shows costs now falling at waterway as delays shrink.
  - Tradewinds, 05 June 2024

• For the next 2-5 years, there is an extraordinary imbalance in favor of demand for power
  - Zero Hedge, 03 June 2024

• Oil and natural gas companies rig the marketplace. Fossil fuel interests - including think tanks, trade associations and dark money groups -- are often preventing the market from shifting to the lowest cost energy. Similar to other industries from tobacco to banking to pharmaceuticals, oil and gas interests use tactics like lobbying and manufacturing 'grass-roots' support to maximize profits. As renewables have become a more formidable competitor, there is a large-scale effort to deceive the public into thinking that the alternative products are harmful, unreliable and worse for consumers.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 June 2024

• "Lower supply expectations" drive natural gas prices in Europe to largest monthly gain since August
  - Zero Hedge, 01 June 2024

• Why Greece is investing a lot on natural gas from the USA. Even as it pivots to solar and wind for itself, Greece aims to become a natural gas supplier across Europe. Among its strongest backers is the United States.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 June 2024

• Mainstream investors finally get it: the AI investment tactic is not technology, but energy such as from natural gas - the electric power needed to fuel the growth of AI
  - Zero Hedge, 21 May 2024

• New liquid natural gas export projects risk delays amid the Biden administrations's push for lower emissions and the ongoing reviews about the environmental impact of the planned export facilities.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 May 2024

• New research shows that emissions from stoves powered by natural gas contribute to 19,000 deaths each year in the USA
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 19 May 2024

• Utility stocks are suddenly white hot, thanks largely to artificial intelligence's thirst for electricity. Investors accustomed to thinking of the sector as sleepy and safe need to realize the game has changed.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 May 2024

• Why Deutschland is choosing to use natural gas over nuclear power
  - Zero Hedge, 09 May 2024

• AI could drive a natural gas boom as power companies face surging electricity demand
  - Comcast's CNBC, 06 May 2024

• The four key reasons why the USA will never stop targeting the LNG sector of Rossiya. LNG has become the most important swing energy source in an increasingly insecure world.
  - Zero Hedge, 01 May 2024

• Turkey is in talks with USA energy giant ExxonMobil over a multibillion-dollar deal to buy liquefied natural gas - about 2.5 million tons of liquified natural gas, in an effort to curb its dependence on energy from Rossiya
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 April 2024

• Sweden wants the EU to sanction the shadow shipping fleet of Rossiya and ban exports of its liquid natural gas
  - Zero Hedge, 23 April 2024

• Natural gas is inexpensive. Why electricity is not.
  - Barron's, 20 April 2024

• The administration of President Biden is raising the costs to private companies of drilling and mining on lands owned by the public
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 April 2024

• Natural gas prices in Texas turn negative as drillers chase sales of oil. "They are bringing these drilled, uncompleted wells online because the price of oil is higher. It is flooding the market with gas, and there is no demand."
  - Zero Hedge, 11 April 2024

• Americans now worry about out-of-control power bill inflation
  - Zero Hedge, 11 April 2024

• The energy giant Eni, based in Italy, sees future profits from collecting carbon dioxide and pumping it into natural gas fields that have been exhausted.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 April 2024

• The global oversupply of natural gas could reach multi-decade highs in the coming years, Morgan Stanley predicts
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 April 2024

• Lawmakers in Texas rush to stop "catastrophic-level event" at oil fields in Texas due to leaks of toxic and radioactive water from the oil wells. "We are going to have complete and utter ecological devastation."
  - The Cool Down, 29 March 2024

• A double-bottom pattern? Natural gas prices in Europe rise on missile attacks by Rossiya on the energy grid of Ukraine.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 March 2024

• 16 states sue Biden administration over permit pause for exports of natural gas. President Biden halted approvals for new exports of liquefied natural gas to study its effect on the climate, national security and the economy. Major oil- and gas-producing states are angry.
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 23 March 2024

• Exports of natural gas from Israel to Egypt increased by 28 percent in 2023.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 March 2024

• A new surge in power use is threatening climate goals in the USA. A boom in data centers and factories is straining electric grids and propping up fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 March 2024

• The 'zombies' of the tax code in the USA: why fossil fuels subsidies for rich oil companies seem impossible to kill. For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate $35 billion over the next ten years in federal tax deductions for coal, oil and gas companies. But fossil fuel subsidies have proven difficult to stop.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 March 2024

• The global North and South's fight for liquid natural gas energy security is set to intensify. Demand for LNG is set to intensify dramatically in many of the developing countries that constitute the Global South, led by Zhōngguó, both for their own energy security and as part of the transition to greener energy.
  - Zero Hedge, 14 March 2024

• Oil fields release far more methane than thought, a new study reports. In parts of New Mexico, more than 9 percent of all natural gas produced goes into the atmosphere, where it acts as a powerful greenhouse gas that worsens global heating.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 March 2024

• No big North Sea fossil fuel country has plan to stop drilling in time for 1.5C goal. UK, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Denmark have failed to align oil and gas policies with Paris pledges, say campaigners.
  - The Guardian, 12 March 2024

• EQT and Equitrans Midstream to combine in big natural-gas deal. The all-stock transaction will reunite EQT with its former pipeline business.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 March 2024

• Global heating, due to carbon emissions from oil, natural gas and coal use -- is particularly bad for women-led families. New U.N. research shows that climate change disproportionately erodes income in households led by women in poorer countries.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 March 2024

• MUFG Bank predicts that the global liquid natural gas market will shift into oversupply in 2025
  - Zero Hedge, 03 March 2024

• To help his re-election efforts, President Biden abandons two climate protection efforts -- exempting existing gas-fired plants, at least for now, from a new regulation that would require power plants in the United States to capture their carbon dioxide emissions before 2040; and, in a concession to automakers and labor unions, relaxing elements of another major rule to limit carbon pollution from automobiles.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 March 2024

• Oil-and-gas companies are accelerating investments in geothermal energy, betting the technologies that fueled the shale revolution can turn the budding industry into a large producer of clean power.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 March 2024

• Woodside CEO sees global demand for liquid natural gas surging by 50% in next decade
  - Zero Hedge, 28 February 2024

• Natural gas has never been this inexpensive in decades. The lowest inflation-adjusted prices in at least 34 years have drillers throttling down from record production.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 February 2024

• Renewable power growth in the USA is setting new records with the support of government subsidies. Wind and solar power are projected to become more popular than natural gas in replacing coal.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 February 2024

• The rising cost of the slow death of the oil and natural gas industries. Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting the pocketbooks of taxpyers. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.
  - ProPublica, 22 February 2024

• Wall Street, realizing that there are no large easy profits in protecting the environment, re-embraces oil and natural gas and does $250 billion in deals last year - burn, baby Earth, burn.
  - Zero Hedge, 21 February 2024

• With US natural gas prices crashing to lows not seen since early Covid in recent days, around $1.60 per million British thermal units, major shale producer Chesapeake Energy announced in a Tuesday earnings report that it would decrease the number of drilling rigs to reduce production this year. As a result, NatGas futures soared. Futures for next-month delivery jumped more than 12% to $1.77 in early afternoon trading on Wednesday.
  - Zero Hedge, 21 February 2024

• How Bharat became the most nimble energy buyer in the world. With a rapidly growing population and economy, Bharat has high demand for oil and natural gas at the right price.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 February 2024

• Israel, with the support of the USA, carried out covert attacks on two major natural gas pipelines inside Iran this week, disrupting the flow of heat and cooking gas to provinces with millions of people.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 February 2024

• Natural gas consumption in Bharat is predicted to triple by 2050
  - Zero Hedge, 15 February 2024

• Shell sees demand surging for liquefied natural gas. Asia will be the dominant consumer, while the U.S. will be the key supplier. In Europe, where liquid natural gas has been a lifeline, the need will continue despite environmental concerns.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 February 2024

• Shell predicts that demand for liquid natural gas will increase by 50% by 2040, , driven by industry in Zhōngguó and economic development in South and Southeast Asia
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 February 2024

• Natural gas producers in the USA are racing to sell to Asia. And Mexico plays an important role. By next year, natural gas from the USA will start flowing across Mexico to a major export terminal on the Pacific, reflecting a global energy landscape transformed by dominance of the USA in the natural gas industry. The terminal is in Costa Azul (south of Tijuana) and eliminates the need to ship through the Panama Canal.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 February 2024

• Deutschland to replace nuclear with natural gas plants for $16 billion. The government has touted the fossil gas power plants as "modern, highly flexible and climate-friendly" because they will, subsequently, be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 February 2024

• Permian rivals reach deal to create $50 billion oil-and-gas behemoth. Diamondback Energy and Autry Stephen's Endeavor announce merger as torrid dealmaking continues in the oil patch.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 February 2024

• Nine states in the USAM are working together to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps powered by electricity (especially from renewable sources), in an effort to eliminate natural gas and oil furnances.
  - Newhouse Wired, 07 February 2024

• Some California residents are "stunned" by the high cost of their latest electric and gas bill, after Pacific Gas & Electric raised prices for millions of customers last month. Millions of Californians can expect to pay an extra $400 a year on average on utilities.
  - Fox News, 05 February 2024

• Earnings of Shell beat forecasts on strong trading of natural gas, and it launches a $3.5 billion stock buyback
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 February 2024

• Massive new natural gas pipeline from Rossiya to Zhōngguó faces delays. Rossiya and Zhōngguó are still in disagreement over the costs and delivery prices of a new major natural gas pipeline from Rossiya to Zhōngguó, which could lead to delays in construction, according to the prime minister of Mongolia.
  - Zero Hedge, 31 January 2024

• New documents show that the fossil fuel industry (oil, natural gas, coal) knew of the future danger's of global heating due to their products, only for the industry to then publicly lie/deny this science for decades and fund ongoing efforts to delay action on the climate crisis.
  - The Guardian, 30 January 2024

• Biden did not reverse a slew of Trump-era pro-America trade barriers in place, excluded European companies from subsidies designed to help US manufacturers, and poked the panda with restrictions on Chinese access to American technology. Now Biden is 'pausing' natural gas exports to Europe. US foreign trade policy has allies wondering just 'what the hell' is going on.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 January 2024

• Biden did not reverse a slew of Trump-era pro-America trade barriers in place, excluded European companies from subsidies designed to help US manufacturers, and poked the panda with restrictions on Chinese access to American technology. Now Biden is 'pausing' natural gas exports to Europe. US foreign trade policy has allies wondering just 'what the hell' is going on.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 January 2024

• The oil and gas industry is expected to spend more than $1 trillion on natural gas supply, driven by demand for gas in Europe. So what if the planet burns to death due to more global heating?
  - Zero Hedge, 29 January 2024

• Worries in Europe over the White house move to delay natural gas terminals. The Biden administration's decision to review new liquefied natural gas projects for their impact on climate change could be a headache for overseas buyers. The restrictions could create uncertainty, especially in Europe, which has only recently weathered a major energy shock after Rossiya's invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago which cut off supplies from Rossiya.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 January 2024

• Natural-gas prices remain under pressure despite cold snap. Robust production, full storage and delays in LNG capacity additions all point toward a year of mild natural-gas prices.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 January 2024

• Global heating and the dirty energies of oil, natural gas and coal. How temperature records were shatttered as 2023 became the hottest year ever. Month after month global temperatures not only break records, but also they surpassed them by far. This year could be even warmer.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 January 2024

• A polar cold wave across the USA sends power prices soaring, and spot natural gas prices soaring
  - Zero Hedge, 13 January 2024

• Biden administration to fine oil and natural gas companies for excess methane. A plan to impose a fee of $900 to $1,500 on every excess ton of methane emissions would be the first federal price on greenhouse gas pollution.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 January 2024

• Southwestern Energy and Chesapeake Energy announce a dirty-energy merger that would create a roughly $17 billion company and one of the largest producers of natural gas in the USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 January 2024

• Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
  - Economist, 10 January 2024

• The Supreme Court of the USA declines to hear an appeal from Exxon and Koch Industries to move a lawsuit filed by Minnesota accusing them of worsening climate change out of state court and into federal court (which are friendlier to companies destroying the environment). Federal courts last year rejected similar appeals, forcing these environmental lawsuits filed by states to be held in ... state courts.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 08 January 2024