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 …
Category: Climate Change
The Justice Department’s Prosecution of Exxon—Where Will This Go?
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 …
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Significant Source of Climate Change Denialism: Academia for Hire
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, …
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On a Carbon Tax
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 …
Republicans on Climate Change
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 …
The Exxon Empire Fights Back
In the American psyche, the theme music from the popular 20th Century TV crime show “Dragnet” (especially the first four notes–take a listen) still evokes the feeling that some huge force has entered the scene, and that something dramatic and …
The Environment Movement and Its Detractors
I just came across a strange article in the Boston Globe called “Inconvenient Truths for the Environmental Movement,” written by Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker. In the section below, I present a few excerpts and provide my responses in …
The Science of Climate Change for Non-Scientists
Over the years here at 2GreenEnergy, I’ve pointed our readers to several explanations of climate change that I thought were particularly on point. But it wasn’t until yesterday that I came across this masterpiece: “13 Misconceptions About Climate Change,” which, …
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Making a Point about Climate Change and Its Deniers in a Way We Can All Appreciate
For some reason I’ve been running across a spate of humorous and terrifically well done pieces that make important points. Here’s one on climate change deniers that got me laughing so loudly that I’m sure the people outside my office here …
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Our Civilization’s Inexplicable Reaction to Climate Change
I love media that makes its point in a fun, appealing way. This piece on climate change by cartoonist Mark Fiore is a work of art. Note the naiveté of the little green man, and compare that to the guy …
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