Ok, that’s fake news. But would anything surprise you at this point?
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Automakers Morph Into Mobility Suppliers
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his Green Auto Digest on the future of shared mobility services and carsharing services that will be offered by automakers and car rental companies: Carsharing services are presenting a business model for automakers to …
Environmentalists Get a Lot of the Science Right, But Not All
In general, those who call themselves environmentalists have some basic understanding of the science that underlies their cause. There are a few gigantic counter examples, however. We could start with the notion that we need to abolish natural gas fracking …
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A Contributed Post: From a Sustainability Perspective, Here’s Why You Should Really Keep Using Your Old Computer Rather Than Replace It
Although computers are durable, you’re going to need a repair expert sooner or later. A lot of computer users even think that it is in their best interest to just be prepared to replace their entire computing systems every few …
Tagged with: sustainability
Climate Scientists Freaked Out By Extreme Temperatures in 2017
2014 was the hottest year on record. Until 2015. That record stood…until 2016. And 2017 is headed to be (far) hotter still? That’s unexpected? What precisely were we expecting? At this point, is there an objective** observer with the brains …
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Truth Doesn’t Care What You Believe, or What’s Being Written About It
I’m out here in Hawaii for a few days visiting my Fox News-loving mom, and, as one might expect, discussions of politics, all of them civil and mutually respectful, crop up between us naturally. Of course, these conversations face the …
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Final Note on Beef and the Environment
A reader challenges my assertion that the beef industry has an extremely heavy eco-footprint. He points out that his grandparents were cow farmers and that the beef industry’s (direct or indirect) economic contribution to the US economy is estimated at …
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How Should Scientists Address Climate Change?
According to this article, scientists have put considerable effort into finding spots on the globe where newly planted trees will have the best shot surviving climate change.
Is Trump Achieving His Goals?
In response to my piece in which I suggested that Trump could regain some support if he’d stop acting like a crazy person, the ubiquitous MarcoPolo writes:
Tagged with: Trump approval rating
Can Trump Turn This Around?
There’s a meme going around Facebook that suggests that Trump’s record-setting low approval rating could be ameliorated if he’d stop acting like a crazy person. This is 100% true. Think for a second: What would you or I do in …
