Andy Rowell
Andy Rowell is a staff blogger for Oil Change International in addition to working as a freelance writer and investigative journalist who specializes in environmental, health and lobbying issues. Follow him on Twitter: @andy_rowell
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Views Monday, September 17, 2018 “Only A Matter of Time” Before Category 6 Hurricane Hits U.S. As I write, Typhoon Mangkhut and Hurricane Florence are still making waves on different continents leaving millions of people to pick up the cost of these two destructive storms. In Asia, Typhoon Mangkhut is one of the most powerful storms to hit the region for decades. Although Mangkhut was... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Jerry Brown Warns of “Apocalyptic Threat” of Climate Change, But Carries on Drilling Back in April this year, nearly 800 civil society groups formed a coalition to urge California Governor Jerry Brown, to take immediate action against fossil fuel extraction in the state before his term ends. The campaign kicked off five months before Brown’s “Global Climate Action Summit, which... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 20, 2018 After the Fires, Come the Floods Over the last few days, an estimated 350 people have been killed and 800,000 displaced in the worst flooding to hit the Indian state of Kerala for over a century. Thousands remain marooned by unusually intense monsoon rains. Between June 1 and August 17, the southern state has already received 2,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 19, 2018 BP and Big Oil Drive Society Over the 'Climate Cliff' At the end of July, as the American wildfires began to take hold in California, British oil giant BP made its biggest financial deal in nearly twenty years. In retrospect it would have been hugely symbolic if one of the largest oil companies in the world, BP, which had so badly devastated the Gulf... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 13, 2018 As America Burns From Climate Change, Trump Officials Attend Denial Conference to Discuss Why Climate Change is Fake The disconnect could not be greater. As wild-fires raged across the US last week, inflamed by climate change, Trump officials attended the America First Energy Conference, where delegates heard age-old fossil fuel arguments that, amongst others, carbon dioxide makes the planet greener and could not... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 07, 2018 Are We Descending Into Hothouse Earth? As I write, Californian firefighters are tackling the largest wildfire in the state’s history, which is larger than the city of New York and rapidly approaching the size of Los Angeles. Many in the state now believe that the future of “extreme fire” could be here. The new normal has arrived. What... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 30, 2018 California Wildfires Are “Climate Change, for Real and in Real Time” How many more have to die? The global heat-wave of 2018, caused by climate change, is now killing in California. Some eight people have already died, including children and four fire-fighters, in wild-fires ravaging the state. Just as the authorities found the bodies of people trying to shelter... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 18, 2018 “Traitor” Trump “Colludes” With Putin Over Oil A “Traitor”. “Putin’s Poodle ”. “Open Treason”. These are just some of the harsh headlines to greet Trump after yesterday’s summit in Helsinki with Russian President, Vladimir Putin. The papers back home were indignant with rage. The New York Times called Trump Putin’s “lackey”. The paper said that... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Iconic African Baobab Trees Dying Due to “Changing Climate” When historians write the definitive, convoluted but compelling book on climate change, there will be landmark stand-out moments over the last 30 years when you thought the news of floods, sea-level rise, drought and death would finally have spurred society into collective action that would have... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 04, 2018 Could Trudeau’s “Wilful Self-Delusion” on Climate Rip Canada Apart? Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of Canada? Is this really how the end of the nation state begins? Will Canada’s current political tensions around Kinder Morgan’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline become such huge irreconcilable constitutional fractures that eventually the crisis... Read more |