Here’s an article that discusses the projected price tag of seawalls required to protect U.S. cities by 2040, pegging the cost at $416 billion. Seawalls are examples of “adaptation,” i.e., making changes in the way we live so as to minimize the damage resulting from a changing climate. (more…)
From the Washington Post:
Environmental Protection Agency air chief Bill Wehrum, who helped reverse Obama-era rules aimed at cutting pollutants, is stepping down amid scrutiny over possible violations of federal ethics rules. (more…)
Oooo! Oooo! Call on me!!!
It’s because, along with that superior intellectual capacity, comes some really nasty stuff: greed, tribalism, bigotry, selfishness, credulity, lazy thinking, and an indifference to the suffering of others. (more…)
Readers are of two minds when it comes to my frequent rants against the barrage of techno-fraud and misleading claims we see on social media. Some are bored, but most like the challenge of applying math and the laws of basic physics to real-world situations. (The former group should skip this one.) (more…)
Apparently, I’m not the only one foretelling what’s going to happen when climate change starts to have increasingly heavy impact on human civilization. In particular, while the hoards of poor people are going to face unprecedented levels of suffering, the rich few will fare quite well–and the author of the article linked above has nailed this precisely. (more…)
Whether or not the evolution of technology on this planet will help our civilization avert the environmental catastrophe that our scientists forecast for us is impossible to predict. (more…)
Of the 9000+ posts here, there are more than 1000 in the category “climate change,” many of which offer proof-points that this phenomenon is real, that it’s caused by human activity, that addressing it will be a net positive for the economy, and that willful ignorance of all this will destroy our civilization if left unchecked. Nowhere, however, have I done this job anywhere nearly as well as Robert Reich did in this video. (more…)
George Orwell would have turned 116 today. Referring to his involvement in the Spanish Civil War (1936) he composed the essay “Why I Write,” in which he said:
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. (more…)
This, right here, is why smart and fore-sighted people don’t work for the Trump administration: they know they can get stuck in one of the most untenable and unpleasant positions in U.S. history.
Maybe this lady isn’t actually a cruel, heartless beast. Let’s assume she was forced into this totally asinine and disgusting place because she was unlucky enough to be forced into this assignment by her boss. (more…)
Recently, I edited a book for a friend who has written a futuristic novel that projected significant damage to low-lying cities via sea-level rise. I pointed out that seawalls will play a significant role in keeping coastal cities from the encroaching oceans.
He writes: (more…)
