We know a great deal about climate change, but there remains a great deal outside our grasp, of which the role of water vapor is an excellent example. As discussed in the article linked above, water vapor is the single …
Category: Climate Change
Climate Change: How Valuable is the "Consensus?"
With respect to my recent piece on climate science, a reader points out: What is today’s “consensus” may not be tomorrow’s. Yes, the consensus can be wrong. In fact, it always is, in one way or another.
Wonderful Presentation on Climate Science
I just watched this 90-minute video that provides a good survey of the science behind global warming. The photo here is a bit misleading; the math and science isn’t ridiculously advanced. From the notes on the website: Professor Kerry Emanuel …
Hand-Wringing Over Stranded Assets
About half of all the world’s fossil fuel, i.e., the energy in the hydrocarbon bonds that resulted from hundreds of millions of years of life on Earth, has been harvested and burned over the last century or so–and it’s happening …
Climate Change: The Ultimate Disposition
Here’s an article, one of several similar pieces I see every day, that I offer to those whose viewpoint on climate change is both a) that its effects going forward are well understood, and b) that they won’t be as …
How Will Our Civilization Deal with Hundreds of Millions of Climate Refugees?
It’s amazing that the heartbreaking stories of the Syrian refugees haven’t prompted more discussion of the ultimate tragedy associated with people being forced to flee their homes, which will be playing itself out in spades over the coming decades: climate …
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Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist
Here’s Bjorn Lomborg (pictured), author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” speaking at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think-tank in New York City, in a video shot in 2008. His viewpoint in a nutshell: Yes, man-made climate change is a reality, but …
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George Will: A Man I Don’t Claim To Understand
My mom suggested that I check out George Will’s scathing remarks in his editorial: Pope Francis’ Fact Free Flamboyance. She notes: Read it and weep. George Will doesn’t make me weep, though he does cause me to scratch my head. Why …
Incredible Writing on the Coming “Climate Apocalypse”
2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood sent me this masterpiece from Jedediah Purdy (pictured), Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where he teaches constitutional and environmental law; it begins: “In the last week, a group of scientists and a prominent historian each …
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Our Understanding of Climate Change: A Weird History
Today, most of the literate world is aware of the challenge that our civilization faces with respect to “AGW” (anthropogenic global warming, aka climate change, aka climate disruption). For most of us, however, this realization has come fairly recently; public …
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