Jennifer A Dlouhy and Sheela Tobben report on plans of the United States government to buy oil that is still in the ground as part of their oil reserves. THe motive for this move is not that the government feels their reserves may be insufficient at the moment. The motive is that they noted theContinue reading “Government Buying Oil in the Ground”
Category Archives: Last Week
Congratulations to Jeff Bezos
For being able to spend $10 billion of his own money on the climate emergency, and still having plenty left. That is about 1 percent of the one trillion euros the EU wants to spend on the European Green Deal. And it is almost one percent of the $1.4 trillion the oil and gas industryContinue reading “Congratulations to Jeff Bezos”
How to Solve the Climate Emergency in One Week
At the occasion of migrating this blog to the new WordPress hosted site, I also changed the address for the PDF file of my book “Last Week”. It is available at k-lenz.de/lastweek now, at my Dropbox public folder. I wonder if anyone would be interested in how to solve that little problem in one week,Continue reading “How to Solve the Climate Emergency in One Week”
Lessig For President
I hear that Larry Lessig is running for President of the United States. I recall that he kindly answered to one of my blog posts once in 2009, stating that I was “missing the point”, though he also said I was “usually exactly right”. So I wish him the best of luck. That would beContinue reading “Lessig For President”
Asteroid Day
I am late with this. I just learned from this tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson that yesterday was asteroid day. There is a campaign that wants to increase awareness about the threat from asteroids. The date is set after the 1908 Tunguska event, which happened on June 30th. The campaign wants to increase funding for findingContinue reading “Asteroid Day”
Politics Sold To The Highest Bidder
(Repost, from my third Science Fiction Climate Change Novel “Last Week”, in answer to this Tweet by ClimateProgress): If you’ve wondered why so many politicians deny climate change, science has your answer http://thkpr.gs/3662739 Part 22 of my third global warming science fiction novel “Last Week”. Link to Part 01: “Back To Paradise Era”. Friday,Continue reading “Politics Sold To The Highest Bidder”
Climate Change Lobbyists Outnumbered
Marc Gunther published another very interesting article at the Guardian titled “In Washington, a handful of corporations lobby against climate change”. The article documents that most lobbyists in the United States are opposing meaningful policies to accelerate the switch away from fossil fuels. Lobbyists are not without influence on American politics. Much of that influenceContinue reading “Climate Change Lobbyists Outnumbered”
My Book “Last Week” on Kindle
I just published a Kindle version of my global warming bitcoin science fiction time travel novel “Last Week“. It is available at Amazon.com here for $0.99, and at Amazon.co.jp here for 1o4 yen.
NEVIL Award for “Last Week”
Climate activist Dan Bloom has kindly awarded a “NEVIL” to my novel “Last Week”, available as a FREE PDF file here. The “NEVIL” award is named after Nevil Shute, author of the novel “On the beach“, which is the best known of his 24 published novels. It is a book about everybody on the planetContinue reading “NEVIL Award for “Last Week””
Isaac Asimov On Working With Editors
So I just released my third novel “Last Week” as a PDF file (available for FREE here). In contrast to my first and second effort, this time I paid Zoë Markham of markhamcorrect.com some money to provide copy editing service. In this post, I am going to discuss my experience. And to spice things upContinue reading “Isaac Asimov On Working With Editors”
