Category: Climate Change

Colleague Alex Cannera sends this article: Mosquito-Borne Illness Fueled by Climate Change Linked to Spike in Birth Defects in Brazil that begins: As the earth warms and grows more humid, virulent infectious diseases spread by insects are on the rise. …

Climate Change and Dengue Read More »

Question: Why Is the Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Faster Than Expected? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: At the current rate, Greenland is losing over 300 billion tons of ice a year. The consequences of the ensuing …

Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy: Today’s Topic: The Greenland Ice Sheet Read More »

The intrusion of the salt water from the Atlantic Ocean into the aquifers that provide fresh water for the folks living in the southern part of Florida has been big news for quite a few years. The saddest, though the …

Taking the Obvious Steps To Protect People from the Effects of Climate Change Read More »

Rajendra Pachauri, chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and overseer of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), was good enough to grant me an interview for my third book (Renewable Energy–Following the Money).  Here is a fabulous picture-book that …

Environmentalists Have a Great Deal to Celebrate Read More »

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Contrary to popular belief, plants represent a net zero in terms of capturing CO2. While they’re alive, they convert carbon dioxide to sugar, but after they die, those more complex, higher-energy molecules break down and that carbon is re-released into …

Can't Plants Sequester Our CO2 Emissions? — "Take a Cool Guess" Read More »

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Many of you are making an effort to keep yourselves abreast of the unfolding chain of information associated with the fossil fuel industry’s attempts to suppress the truth surrounding climate change.  To that  end, you should be keeping track of …

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Readers may want to check out the comments on my diatribe about Volkswagen’s brazen criminality, and the discussion of the Justice Department’s prosecution of ExxonMobil.  Apparently, a fellow in Australia doesn’t think this action has much merit. We’ll see how …

The Justice Department’s Prosecution of Exxon—Where Will This Go? Read More »

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Want a nauseating experience?  (How’s that for a snappy introduction that just makes you want to dive right in?)  Here’s an article that explains how some university professors make themselves available to the fossil fuel concerns, in exchange for cash, …

Significant Source of Climate Change Denialism: Academia for Hire Read More »

Those of you who caught Dr. James Hansen’s interview yesterday on “Democracy Now!” noted how unimpressed he was with the climate change proceedings in Paris.  In brief, he has low regard for the basic concept emerging from the talks (putting …

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When he left the climate talks in Paris a few days ago, U.S. President Obama said: “I mean, you travel around Europe and you talk to leaders of governments and the opposition, and they are arguing about a whole bunch …

Republicans on Climate Change Read More »

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