This short video from Yale Climate Connections provides the results of a study done on children’s health, based on tests performed on two groups of subjects: those born two years before the closing of a coal-fired power plant in China, and an otherwise identical set born a year after the closure. (more…)
I hope the 95% of the world’s population living outside the U.S. understands how deeply ashamed of our country most of us Americans are.
Before this nauseating trend, we had to embarrass ourselves by traveling around Europe with our gauche thoughtlessness and bad manners. Now we get it done without leaving our homes.
I had a sad realization when I woke up this morning, summed up in the following little story:
About 40 years ago, I played poker with a friend’s relatives, who were relatively poor and uneducated but laudably honest, hard-working, good-willed and hilariously funny working class people back in Maryland. (more…)
Below is a diagram that lays out the location and size of each of the 33 coal-fired power plants in the U.S. that will be decommissioned in the next four years. (more…)
Here, Dan Rather makes the point I’ve been trying to communicate since environmentalism started to dominate my life about 10 years ago. What exactly is the attraction of enriching oneself by ruining the quality of life for everyone living on this planet, both now and into the future? How much does that new yacht or that fifth house in Bordeaux or the Hamptons really mean to you? (more…)
This article is suggesting that the answer is yes, and obviously, I’d love to celebrate this idea. (more…)
One of the images that many of us are accustomed to seeing of life in China is that of people wearing masks as they walk down the street. (more…)
I’m sure I’m not the only one looking forward to hearing how things are going for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt as Congress grills him about his numerous ethics violations. (more…)
I had a nice chat with my aging but razor-sharp mom last night in which we discussed my concern that, beneath all the fun I have writing this stuff every day, I’m deeply concerned that humankind isn’t long for this world. (more…)
For some reason, Republican Pa. Sen. Scott Wagner (pictured), in the midst of a run for governor, felt compelled to explain climate change to an audience: “I haven’t been in a science class in a long time, but the earth moves closer to the sun every year — you know the rotation of the earth,” Wagner said, according to State Impact, an NPR affiliate. (more…)
