Here’s the legendary physicist/climate scientist Joe Romm delivering a talk whose title is the headline of this post, and here are a few quotes from the talk, along with my comments. “Climate change will have as much impact on you …
Climate Change Solutions: What You Thought You Knew Is Obsolete Read More »
If you’re in charge of managing the monthly household budget, there’s probably one expense that really bugs you every billing cycle. The utility bill is a huge aggravation because it’s never quite the same but it always seems to be …
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I thought readers might be amused by this flier I created for my tutoring service. I just started with a new kid at the local high school yesterday (Algebra II and English). I really enjoy helping young people do well …
Obviously, 400 parts per million CO2 is a symbolic number; there’s no good reason to freak out about 400 ppm any more than there is 401 or 399. But the concept that the concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere …
Never Say Never, But This Change in Our Atmosphere Really Does Look Permanent Read More »
A few people have commented that my anti-Trump posts could alienate his followers, and actually galvanize support for the sociopath. No one with any sense and decency deliberately wants to alienate Trump supporters, or anyone else for that matter. But …
What Trump Supporters Really Need Is the Exact Opposite of What He Would Deliver Read More »
Lauren Downs from Global Energy News writes: Hi Craig, I have tried many times to contact you regarding your Nomination in the 2016 Oil & Gas Awards without success. The last thing I want to do is become a nuisance, …
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Physicist Enrico Fermi was born on this day 115 years ago in Rome. Einstein had famously predicted the possibility of nuclear energy with the equivalence of mass and energy. But, according to the Writer’s Almanac: “It was Enrico Fermi who was …
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo reacts to my post on Donald Trump’s “climate change is a hoax” position: The vast majority of Trump supporters and significant percentage of the population, understand not to take Trump too literally…..The danger of this sort of …
Is There More Than One Way to Interpret Trump’s Position that Climate Change Is a Hoax? Read More »
As a man of peace, I tend not to celebrate the lives of the world’s conquerors. Yet, on this date, I always give a tip of my hat to William of Normandy, who, 1050 years ago today, landed on British …
Here’s an email urging me to add my name to the #VoteClimate pledge: “I will vote only for climate champions who support a 100% clean energy future, and an end to taxpayer support of fossil fuels.” I complied with the …
