Question: The Greenland Ice Sheet lost almost 600 billion tons of ice last year. How much sea-level rise did that cause? Answer (along with calculations): Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
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Big Oil in Big Trouble: ExxonMobil, Oldest Member of the Dow 30, Ushered Out
The pandemic has pushed the oil industry into a position where it’s hemorrhaging money. Recently we learned that ExxonMobil, a Dow component since 1928 (then Standard Oil), has left the DJIA, replaced by something of greater relevance to today’s world. …
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Tagged with: Exxon under criminal investigation for lying to shareholders re: what the company knew about climate change and what this would eventually do to value of its assets, ExxonMobil leaving DOW, make it tougher for Big Oil to continue to wreck this planet, no gas-/diesel-powered cars will be sold in the EU after 2030, oil industry hemorrhaging money, trend towards electric transportation is inexorable
Choosing the Most Contemptible Member of Trump’s Cabinet Is No Piece of Cake
If you were asked to name the single most despicable member of Trump’s cabinet, whom would you choose? Attorney General William Barr might be an obvious choice, insofar as he’s functioning essentially as the president’s private attorney, and has no …
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Tagged with: Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler a career coal lobbyist, end to rule of law in the United States, EPA has eliminated or eviscerated over 100 important regulations the formerly protected the cleanliness of our skies and waterways, one-man wrecking ball to the environment, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos works to subvert public education, William Barr functioning as the president's private attorney
The 2020s Will Be the ‘Decade Of Hydrogen’ — Really?
I’m very suspicious of the claim made above. Before I get into my reasoning, here’s an excerpt from an article by GreenTech Media: Falling costs and growing project pipelines will ensure the 2020s are the “decade of hydrogen,” according to …
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Biden’s Coming For Your Guns!
I have bad news for the GOP: rhetoric like this isn’t going to get the job done. It’s true that there are a few tens of millions of morons who can’t think back to 2008 – 2016, when politically equivalent …
Tagged with: Obama White House
Trump or God
A whopping 65% of Americans identify as Christians. Now, 25.4% are Evangelicals, whose version of Christianity has little if anything to do with the teachings of Christ, so that leaves roughly 40% whose lives are driven, at least in part, …
Trump’s Not Incompetent; He’s Evil
A reader sent me the blurb at left. My response: It’s not incompetence. He’s very talented at pulling off events that cause great harm to everyone except him and those who happen to be in positions from which they can …
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“Trump Is an Obvious Disaster”
With all the revolting developments unfolding in U.S. politics on a daily basis, perhaps the only thing to actually like is events that come out of deep, deep left field, like this one: White nationalist chieftain Richard Spencer says MAGA/alt-right …
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“Principled Republicans Are Jumping Ship”
John S. McCollister is a Republican state senator in the Nebraska Legislature, representing an Omaha district. One can read this and say something supercilious like “‘Principled Republicans’ is an oxymoron,” or “Better late than never.” I say, “Good on you.” …
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Thinking of Drilling in the Arctic?
I’m not, but if I were, I’d think twice, based on the reasoning presented here from the Arctic Refuge Defense Campaign. These folks mean biz.
