…the pandemic. A victory for Trump’s crackdown on the global fentanyl trade by blowing boats out of the water off in the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico? Hardly. The…

…emissions from cars and power plants since 2009. That finding, called the endangerment finding, reflects the consensus of scientists that greenhouse gases produced by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil,…

…Gulf. And since we just killed all of the immediate family of Iran’s new Supreme Leader, I do not think he is going to be interested in a cessation of…

…Gulf when it was attacked, far from the hostilities unleashed last weekend when the US and Israel launched a war against Iran. Contradicting US claims, Iranian and Indian officials have…

…fertilizer supplies from the Persian Gulf to the world’s farmers. More than 30% of world nitrogen fertilizer exports, as well as fertilizer components like sulfur, pass through the now effectively…

…loss of almost all oil exports that pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which is most of what is exported from the Persian Gulf, and rising oil prices. And a…

…close the Strait of Hormuz and incapacitate other Gulf oil installations, thereby driving up the prices of oil and gas at the pump in the U.S., which has put growing…

…take months to repair and reconstruct the oil infrastructure that’s been destroyed in and around the Persian Gulf. Crude futures — bets that traders are making on the future price…

My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The biggest news this week is how sharply oil prices backed off of their recent highs, as speculators figure that all…

…the burning of fossil fuels (i.e., coal, oil, and gas) for energy, industrial processes, and transportation. Another major contributor is deforestation. Forests absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, and their removal…