German electric power generators produced less electricity in May 2013 than in May 2012, yet produced more of it using combustible fuels like coal, natural gas, and oil. Here is a report to that effect from the International Energy Agency…
Category: Japan
Tsunamis, manufactured and real: the difference is life and death
The March 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami were an unprecedented natural catastrophe. The tsunami was brutal and lethal. Watching the video below I could barely believe my eyes. I was dumbfounded by how devastating the wall of water was. Watch…
The G-8 summit climate: “nothing is being done”
The G8 2013 leaders summit just got started in Ireland. Will climate change be on the summit agenda? If you go by what the United Kingdom, the G-8 president this year, is saying, then no. UK PM David Cameron did…
The Japan tsunami: the second anniversary of a literally earth-shaking event
On March 11, 2011, 4172 days ago, Japan’s northeast coast was struck by a tsunami of unprecedented violence. The tsunami had been triggered by an earthquake so powerful that it shifted the earth’s mass and sped up its rotation about…
Atomic showdown in Japan: how passionate are the peoples?
Public opinion is a sometimes overwhelming and devastating force in public affairs, even in non-democratic countries. The military theorist Karl von Clausewitz, who as a Prussian cadet then officer fought in the epic wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, noted…