Category: Climate Change

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 …

How Will Our Civilization Deal with Hundreds of Millions of Climate Refugees? Read More »

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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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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 …

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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 …

Incredible Writing on the Coming “Climate Apocalypse” Read More »

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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 …

Our Understanding of Climate Change: A Weird History Read More »

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2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie Writes:  Hi Craig, Following on from your post on Women in the Solar Industry, I thought I would let you know about a local day conference to be held on 7th November.  My good friend Mrs. Frances …

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I urge you to check out this article called Arctic Tipping Points Can Ripple Around the World and especially its comments.  You’ll note that the discussion offers some of the most intense knee-jerk reactions you’ll ever see on the subject …

Yes, the Glaciers Are Melting, But That’s Not a Big Deal, Is It? Read More »

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Here’s good news for all you people with lungs.  Australia has ousted Tony Abbott (pictured), its extreme right-wing prime minister, and replaced him with Malcolm Turnbull, a gentleman known to be much more in tune with a variety of social …

Australia’s New Prime Minister Will Take a Rational Stance on Climate Change Read More »

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One of the unfortunate consequences of our robo-consumer society is that people who take the concept of “utopia” seriously are immediately branded as worthless dreamers.  “Hey, we’re not trying to achieve world peace here,” one commonly hears as a metaphor for …

Can a U.S.-Chinese Collaboration on Climate Change Become a Reality? Read More »

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We Californians, living as we do in severe drought conditions, have a general sense that climate change is playing a role here.  It’s not exactly rocket science that rising temperatures tend to evaporate more water, leaving less of it in …

Global Warming and the Drought in California Read More »

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