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The Crucial Years

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And so "climate" returns

One benefit of having watched the climate story from the start is that I tend not to panic when “climate” is temporarily eclipsed as an issue, almost always thanks to the hard work of Big Oil. It happened at the end of the 1980s after the i...

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How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?

Beginning next week, Australians across a huge swath of the continent will begin getting three free hours of electricity every afternoon—to charge their cars, runs their dishwashers, fill up a storage battery to run the house at night. I’ve...

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Now where?

While Trump struggles to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, here’s a Chinese freighter leaving Shandong with a cargo of wind turbines bound for Romania.

On February 28, a few hours after President Trump launched his absurd war against Iran, I u...

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On the flow of money, and of time

Here’s how Lee Raymond’s hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, remembered him this morning.

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The Biggish Picture

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