Question: As a rule of thumb, how many additional people on Earth are subjected to flooding for each centimeter the ocean rises? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
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Environmental Wins and Losses Happen at Different Rates
Perhaps the take-away here is that progress takes time, but destruction doesn’t. Though the environmental movement has struggled against the power of greed and corporate influence, it’s done so with considerable success over the better part of a century. Yet …
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Climate-Fueled Desperation in Australia
Few Americans understand the horrific impact that climate-fueled wild fires are having on the air quality in Australia. It’s hard to read the piece linked above and not taste the ash and see the pink sun that the author describes …
Sorry, But Guidelines Won’t Help
Perhaps policing in the United States could benefit from a set of guidelines as to when it’s improper to spray bullets at random times and mow down innocent people. Then we’ll need guidelines that ensure that police read and understand …
Trump Never Ceases to Amaze
Any criminologists out there? Maybe you can help the 2GreenEnergy reader community understand why the most visible person in the known universe, under legal pressure from several different directions, threatened with the criminal penalties associated with treason, continues to commit …
Nativity Scene at Church Depicts Jesus, Mary and Joseph as Refugees in Cages
I found this hard to believe when I first came across it. Sure, this church is in California; one won’t find this in Oklahoma, but seriously? Showing the three held in separate cages topped with barbed wire? The baby Jesus …
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Trump Support Lives Deep Within
We all have Trump supporters in our lives. My wife Becky has close connections to several women from her high school days, and to her chagrin, a couple of them fall into this category.
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Science in Peril
Today is the 40th anniversary of the convening of a panel of scientists that declared the smallpox virus to be eradicated, the only disease ever to be driven to extinction through human efforts.
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Climate Change and Pacific Cod
Global warming affects everyone of us. Now I learn that pacific cod, my go-to fish for ceviche (recipe here), has gone up in price. Kidding, of course. Here’s the serious side of this, from Alaska Public Radio:
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Melania Trump Truly IS Inspirational
This made me laugh. As I travel, or meet people from foreign countries who have come to the United States, I try to get a feel for how Trump is regarded overseas. Generally, people use words like “incompetent,” “laughing stock,” …
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