It’s interesting to see the world reaction to news like this, i.e., that 2015 is far hotter than the previous hottest year on record (2014). It makes one wonder: exactly what average temperatures do we need to achieve before we …
Category: Climate Change
Anthropogenic Climate Disruption
Frequent commenter Cameron Atwood writes: For those concerned about how messaging is communicated, I’d suggest that people need to replace the ambiguous and lukewarm phrases “climate change” and “global warming” with the far more accurate, evocative and impactful words “anthropogenic …
Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise
Here’s an interactive map that enables users to see the sea-level rise associated with different scenarios. Of course, such predictions contemplate the more distant future; it’s likely that only minor climate change-related damage will take place, due to rising oceans …
Which Countries Are Doing The Most To Deal with Climate Change?
Here’s a wonderful graphic on the subject, particularly germane as we head toward Paris and the 21st international conference on this subject. Somehow, most people have a far greater sense of optimism here than we did about the first twenty.
The 21st Century: an Era of Moral Extremes
It’s such an interesting time to be alive. The stakes are so high, and there seems to be a greater divide than ever between good and bad. Good things and people are better than they’ve been before. We have a …
Anti-Intellectualism Has Its Lighter Moments
We live in a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of hell,” and the chairman of a senate environmental panel introduced a snowball as evidence that …
Big Oil, Like Big Tobacco, Faces Tough Times Ahead
In the 1960s, when the tobacco industry learned that its product caused cancer and that millions of its customers would suffer agonizing deaths as a result of smoking cigarettes, its leaders conspired to suppress this finding, so as to protect …
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Talking About ExxonMobil’s Behaviour on Climate Change
I wanted to publish this little discussion I just had with Peter B. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Economics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Environmental Policy and Management (CEPM) at the University of Louisville, who currently …
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Laser Focus: Climate Change
Three years ago I wrote: I look at Michael Klare (Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts) as a kind of Craig Shields on intellectual steroids. He and I agree on essentially everything; the …
What's Causing Global Warming?
Anyone looking for a quick, easy, and understandable representation of the cause of global warming should check this out, a graphical depiction of each of the supposed contributors to climate change, based on data collected by NASA.
