• In August, a study showed that Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra-warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 4 feet of water. 

 

• WTO finds Washington broke trade rules by imposing tariffs on China. WTO future is in danger just when we need it most

• Shipping orders of corn and soybean out of the US

•  Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now…

 

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  Two of BP’s latest scenarios predict that crude demand will fall by half or more over the next 30 years.
• (I am prognosticating crude demand to fall  by 80% and more over the next 30 years) 

 

• Oregon GOP state senator Fred Girod was one of 11 Republicans who made headlines when they walked out of the senate – some even leaving the state – so that a quorum could not be achieved for a climate change bill. Now the wildfires have claimed his home

 

• WSJ: says the FTC is prepping a  possible  antitrust suit against Facebook

 

• Japans exports fell 14.8% YoY in August

• Bloomberg: Out west of Sydney it gets hot. Really hot. Like 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) hot. Stand in a car park and the radiant heat from the tarmac can push the mercury to 80C—approaching the temperature of a slow cooker. 
• It’s these new suburbs that the government is banking on to accommodate almost half of the 1.8 million people ..

• The chart showing German exports to China would indicate a German need to be agreeable with China.