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 …
Category: Climate Change
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.
What We Don’t Know About Climate Change
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 …
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 …
