When we think about climate change, we often consider the indirect effects of all that heat, creating things like droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, famines and the like, but we sometimes overlook the heat itself and its direct effect on the human body. (more…)
Here’s a quick discussion with a reader surrounding this article: Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed.
Craig: Great to see them leading the charge. (more…)
Here’s another exercise for those who like to play with probability and statistics.
In 139 years of record-keeping, this June was the warmest June ever recorded, but it also revealed something more troubling: each of the last five January through Junes are now the five warmest such spans on record. (more…)
Of course, condescension like this isn’t cool, but it does have a certain comedic value. So, in that spirit:
It’s time for a certain dumbass voting constituency to change its position vis-a-vis environmental sustainability.
This is one of two statements directed to these dumbasses, too.
There is some truth to the meme here, but, per what we see every day out there, most of his supporters love what Trump is doing. The rabble is thrilled that he’s making America Christian white male again, while punishing the poor and the treehuggers; they think he’s (in some cases literally) a gift from God. The super-rich are having orgasms with their huge tax cuts, while rooting him on in destroying the federal government. (more…)
John Paul Stevens’ retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 was prompted by the high court’s decision in “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,” which freed corporations from federal limits on campaign spending, enabling them to use their immense power to influence our elections in any direction of their choosing. In his vocal dissent, Justice Stevens wrote that the decision “threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation.” (more…)
We are living in the midst of a revolution. Twenty years ago, the concept of renewable, alternative energy sources was just a pipe dream. Now, we have functional examples of wind and solar energy that are coming close to providing 10% of America’s power needs every day. And the promise to do much more. (more…)
Dating back at least to Jules Verne, we’ve had science fiction that predicted the future with frightening accuracy.
We all hope that the main themes of the 20th Century’s great dystopian novels like Brave New World, 1984, A Handmaid’s Tale and so many others will not come to fruition, though there is no reason to think that they won’t, especially given that we’re coming quite close in many instances around the globe. (more…)
In this article, 87 Percent of Americans Unaware There’s Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, we see the result of surveys conducted by Yale and George Mason Universities. (more…)
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