Frequent commenter BreathOnTheWind wonders about the rationale for climate change denial. My position: Anyone with two brain cells to rub together has enough respect for science to know that climate change is a reality. The people (at least the educated …
Category: Climate Change
A Few People Say That Climate Change Is a Hoax, But That’s Not How They Bet
Check out this funny reminder that climate change denial disappears when people have to bet on their positions. For big insurance, it’s no joke though. The industry has trillions of dollars at stake; note that they’re acutely aware of the …
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Legal Victory for Climate Change Mitigation
This could be huge. My colleague Brian McGowan sent me this article on the legal aspects of global warming that begins: “In the first lawsuit to involve a planet, a U.S. Federal District Court judge ruled in favor of 21 plaintiffs, ages 8 …
Climate Change Mitigation: How’s It Going?
It’s the tenth anniversary of the Time Magazine article “Global Warming: Be Worried. Be Very Worried.” Writing for Time, journalist Jeffrey Kluger began his 2006 report: Polar ice caps are melting faster than ever, more and more land is being …
Geo-Engineering: Frightening But Perhaps Essential Fairly Soon
Rightfully, we regard the concept of geo-engineering with considerable trepidation. Proposals to use technology to address climate change come in various forms, the two most popular of which are increasing the albedo (reflectiveness) of the Earth, and enabling the oceans …
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Oxygen Levels Are Falling
Everyone’s aware of the greenhouse gas emission issue, but no one’s talking about the fact that the oxygen levels in our atmosphere are declining faster than the CO2 is rising. The culprits: desertification, deforestation, and pollution of our oceans. This …
How Much Do We Care about the Criminal Proceedings Being Initiated Against ExxonMobil?
Here’s the Scientific American article on Exxon’s conspiracy to suppress the vast knowledge they had in their possession as early as 1981 concerning the connection between fossil fuel consumption and climate change. It’s fascinating to see how this criminal investigation is …
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Why So Little Reaction in Response to Climate Change?
Commenter Gina Rozier writes in my response to our lack of response to climate change: It intrigues me what threats people react too and which ones they ignore. I remember reading a quote. Science says climate change is here. We …
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How Certain Are We Of Climate Change?
When a climate change skeptic wrote: Climate models have crucial flaws making them useless, I wrote, “This idea lives on the outer banks of the remotest fringe of science.” At the end of his explanation, he cautions me in response: It’s very …
Climate Change Victims: First Them, Then Us
Here’s a story about a town that has all but vanished due to climate change. Of course, many people, when they see how remote the village is and how foreign its people are to our more “civilized” ways, will discount …
