It’s not just the poor, sick, and elderly who suffer, and whose lives will continue to get worse, to that group, we need to add those who count on: Public education, labor laws, food safety standards, air traffic control, social …
Category: Climate Change
Tornado Danger in the American Midwest
Using individual extreme weather events as evidence of climate change is not a scientifically accurate thing to do, but this is a lot of tornadoes. Indiana averages 22 per year, and they are already at 44.
Tagged with: Evidence of Climate Change
Sea-Level Rise
I had to laugh at this discussion on the video on sea-level rise and the post I just made: Reader A: Bull, it’s not global warming. It’s part of the ice age cycle. As the gulf stream is near it’s …
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Sea Ice and the Loss of Land Mass
This video makes the point that melting ice on our planet’s surface is causing sea-level rise, which is correct, but it’s not the ice in the arctic that is of concern; it’s ice that’s on solid ground: Greenland and Antarctica. …
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Happy 91st Birthday Jane Goodall!
One of the main reasons that the legendary environmentalist remains optimistic in the face of all this destruction is the enthusiasm of young people, which is why I chose the photo here, co-featuring climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Understanding Climate Science
The implication here is that folks like the Amish who eschew technology like television are incapable of receiving and understanding climate science. I would find that offensive if I were they. They can’t read? They can’t think?
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You Probably Won’t Die of Climate Change
I don’t know anything about this young lady other that she’s English-speaking, and that she has enough time to herself to spend some of it protesting our civilization’s disgusting disregard for the existential threat that climate change represents. And because …
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Another Website for Climate Deniers
As shown at left, the people who want to muddy the waters on climate change (Big Oil?) are at it again. In truth, there were occasional articles in the early 20th Century that (correctly) asserted that the emissions from burning …
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Defense Sec Hegseth says Pentagon ‘Does Not Do Climate Change Crap’
Here’s just one more example of how far the United States has fallen in the period of less than two months since Trump took office: We now have an alcoholic Fox News host appointed as Secretary of Defense who has …
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Tagged with: alcoholic Fox News host appointed as Secretary of Defense, Climate Change Is Crap, climate refugees, dependence on oil, food shortages due to ocean acidification, loss of land masses, scarcity of resources, the increase in the number and severity of weather emergencies, the U.S. military identified climate change as a threat to national security several decades ago
Concern for Earth’s Environment
The answer to the question posed at left isn’t incorrect, but it’s rare, and perhaps even weird. We all “live here,” but that’s not the reason most people in the early 21st care about the Earth’s capacity to support life. …
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