Have we hit the tipping point on climate change? For example, has the melting permafrost in the Arctic released so much methane that a runaway feedback loop has been established? As suggested at left, an analogous question could be asked …
Category: Climate Change
Climate “Superfund” Will Require Legislation at the Federal Level
A judge has ruled that New York State’s climate “superfund,” modeled after laws that provide money to clean up toxic waste, runs counter to federal law and is therefore invalid. Eventually, we will have laws that force companies whose actions …
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Religion Through the Millennia
What Seneca said here is as true today as it was 2000 years ago. When I was a boy, I predicted that the advancements of science would eventually put an end to religion, but it appears I was wrong. Dwindling …
How Oil Execs Sleep at Night
I’m sure some of these excuses are extremely common in the minds of those making huge profits by destroying our planet.
Tornadoes in Chicago
I met a woman from Chicago yesterday who is concerned that the nation’s third-largest city is experiencing increasing frequent and severe tornadoes, causing deaths and inflicting huge amounts of property damage. She seemed despondent, sadly resigned to the fact that …
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Government Is Inefficient, But . . .
Until I was about 40, what Milton Friedman said at left made perfect sense to me. That’s when I realized that free market capitalism is destroying the environment, and that without government regulation, our planet would soon be in flames. …
Congress Should Address the Climate Crisis
Asking the congress to “address the climate crisis” is something of a joke. Most of them have their seats by virtue to their allegiance to Big Oil, and, for many, their position on climate change is that it’s a hoax. …
Artificial Stupidity?
We all understand that there are ultra-conservatives living all around us, but does anyone truly believe that our schoolteachers are ruining our society by teaching children the truth about U.S. and world history? Science? Current events? Slavery and Jim Crow …
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NOAA Set Up Website — for You
Trump is working hard to dismantle NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the largest collection of American scientists focusing on climate change. In particular, he shut down NOAA’s website, that formerly gave everyone on Earth the ability to look …
Professor Brian Cox on Our Obligation to Deal with Climate Change
Dr. Brian Cox has risen to the status of what I would call an “astrophysics badass” in a matter of just a few short years. Anywhere you go on social media, there’s Cox making you think the most profound thoughts …
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