A dear friend from the southern part of Germany writes: I thought this article might interest you. Somebody’s gotta do it! America’s Congress is ignoring one of the biggest problems of all time, global warming/climate change. America’s entrepreneurs, however, are not. …
Category: Climate Change
Short Attention Span Versus Climate Change Mitigation
It’s certainly not a new idea that human beings, Americans in particular, tend to have short attention spans and are easily “issue-fatigued.” This is exacerbated by the corporate media which, in its quest for ratings (equivalent to dollars), crank up …
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Americans Are Slow To Wake Up To New Realities, But When We Do—Watch Out
Americans are unique in the way they shift their viewpoints, and that seems to be true regardless of which type of “viewpoint” we’re discussing: political issues, the appreciation of a new musical genre, and even the acceptance of basic science. …
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Soon China Will Exceed the U.S. in Emissions—But There Is a More Important and More Interesting Story Here
Here’s a fairly decent conversation about the world’s largest polluters, who’s emitting what, and how this is all changing as Asia continues to grow in terms of energy use per capita, and in terms of its overall contribution to the …
The Rise of Asia and What It Means for the Environment
Here are a couple of graphs from “The Economist” that illustrate China’s rise to dominance in the manufacturing sector and suggest where this may go from here. We need also to keep in mind that the average factory worker in …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: The Health of Our Coral Reefs
Question: What percentage of our planet’s coral reefs have died over the last 30 years due to the warming of the oceans? What percentage of ocean species live on these reefs? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: …
From Guest Blogger and Huge 2GreenEnergy Supporter Gary Tulie: California Drought – Adapt or Die?
(I hope readers will enjoy this very thoughtful article on the drought we’re experiencing here California; it was written by my friend and colleague Gary Tulie, of Buckinghamshire England. – ed) How serious is the California drought? That is the …
Tagged with: accelerating climate change, California drought, California drought worst in 1200 years, current drought and heat wave conditions, Gary Tulie, ground water extraction running at twice the level of replacement by rain and snow, mandatory water restrictions, reduction in water consumption by residents
In Terms of News and Ideas, Most Americans Live on a Bizarre Little Island
Here’s an article that makes a point that is already obvious to anyone living outside the U.S., or to any of the handful of people in the States who tune into the BBC or Al Jazeera: Americans’ have an extremely …
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The True Driver of Climate Change Denialism
Here’s another quick post on the tenuous position in which our democracy here in the U.S. finds itself: an article that explains the corruptive action of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) upon the law-making process, specifically on laws that …
Tagged with: American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Clean Power Plan, environmental regulation and climate change, fossil fuel industry funding groups that promote denialism, True of Driver of Climate Change Denialism, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), undercut climate science, undermine climate progress at the state level
Mitigating Climate Change–A Legal Strategy Based on an Ancient Premise
Those of us concerned about climate disruption turn to legal scholars for strategies that may be successful in protecting Earth’s atmosphere. Here’s one I just came across, propounded by Mary Christina Wood (pictured), a law professor at the University of …
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