If you get the opportunity to watch historian/documentarian Ken Burns deliver a lecture on the National Parks, or anything else for that matter, I urge you to seize it. I had the pleasure of being one of a couple of …
Category: Climate Change
The Super Rich Are Cruising the Arctic’s New Passageway as the World Burns
If you like articles that lampoon selfish people, you can’t go wrong with this. Another fairly obvious way of looking at this subject: the rich and powerful people on this planet, i.e., those who have the capacity to do something …
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The Ideology of Environmentalism
Apparently, some readers freak out at the concept of an ideology’s driving climate change mitigation and other actions to promote environmental sustainability. One writes: (Someone) starts with an hypothesis formulated from an ideological/political/philosophic agenda….. Unfortunately, this sort of debate has …
Climate Change Solutions: What You Thought You Knew Is Obsolete
Here’s the legendary physicist/climate scientist Joe Romm delivering a talk whose title is the headline of this post, and here are a few quotes from the talk, along with my comments. “Climate change will have as much impact on you …
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Never Say Never, But This Change in Our Atmosphere Really Does Look Permanent
Obviously, 400 parts per million CO2 is a symbolic number; there’s no good reason to freak out about 400 ppm any more than there is 401 or 399. But the concept that the concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere …
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Is There More Than One Way to Interpret Trump’s Position that Climate Change Is a Hoax?
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo reacts to my post on Donald Trump’s “climate change is a hoax” position: The vast majority of Trump supporters and significant percentage of the population, understand not to take Trump too literally…..The danger of this sort of …
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Climate Change and the US Political Landscape
Here’s an email urging me to add my name to the #VoteClimate pledge: “I will vote only for climate champions who support a 100% clean energy future, and an end to taxpayer support of fossil fuels.” I complied with the …
A Few Data Points on Energy and the Environment from a True Master of the Subject
We all know the wonderful story of Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg and its ‘opening act,” an incredibly brilliant and touching two-hour speech by Edward Everett, one of U.S. history’s greatest orators. Later, Everett wrote to Lincoln, expressing his admiration of …
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Let’s Ignore Climate Change Because….
In researching my four books I came upon numerous excuses for not dealing with climate change. Some of these were laughable, e.g., the CATO Institute’s position that the effects of climate change are small at this point, thus so should …
Scientists Take Issue with Donald Trump’s Position on Climate Change
Apparently, the scientists of the world are a bit cheesed off with the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency, insofar as, among other catastrophes, it means the end of U.S. conviction to mitigate climate change.
