I attended a meeting of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby in Santa Barbara this morning, where our small group joined 189 others around the country on a videoconference. This virtual gathering featured two fabulous speakers who both made compelling and uplifting …
Category: Climate Change
Habitable Land Mass of Planet Earth Is Shrinking
Lots of folks wonder what our civilization will look like as the effects of climate change become more pronounced. What happens when the amount of arable farm land falls, potable water gets scarce, and hundreds of millions of people’s ancestral …
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The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowin’ In the Wind
We tend to think of climate change as something that will eventually wreak incredible havoc on our world–but have we already begun to experience its effects?
The Wrath of Climate Change Will Be Imbalanced
What will happen to our economic fortunes in the Western Hemisphere as it warms over the coming decades? It depends on exactly where we live.
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U.S. Participation in the Paris Accord on Climate Change Mitigation Will Survive Donald Trump
In many cases, my rants on the damage being wreaked by the Trump administration are met with these reassuring words from friends and colleagues: Calm down, Craig. Trump’s power to destroy our civilization is far more limited than you think. …
Live from Hartford, CT
Craig Shields, reporting from Hartford, CT, the home of Trinity College, where the class of 1977 is celebrating its 40th reunion. Thrilled to be here. The attendance at events like this is self-selecting; those who aren’t able to have a …
Climate Change Is Measurable
Here’s a great video on how scientists actually measure climate change (as opposed to merely running computer-based models). I suppose the ideal audience for this is climate deniers who have an open mind and are receptive to ideas that challenge …
Rand Paul Vs. Climate Science
A reader sent me this piece in which U.S. Senator and 2016 presidential GOP hopeful Rand Paul rips into a scientist who warns of possible mass extinctions if we continue along our current course re: gloabl warming. Rand said: “The …
More on Trump and the Climate Accord
A reader asks: Craig, have you read the entire Paris Climate Accord document? I did! ….. It’s incredibly vague…. Why not step away from just spending money and maybe just maybe renegotiate the terms?
With its Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, the U.S. Parts Company with the Civilized World
As we learned to our horror yesterday, the U.S. has again elected to make itself the pariah of the world, this time with its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. But is there any reason to be surprised? …
