It’s childish to say that individual weather phenomena are the result of climate change; anyone with the brains of a turnip shudders when one of our store-bought senators offers a snowball as evidence that the Earth has not warmed. Having …
Category: Climate Change
Addressing Climate Change–Even Though We May Avoid the Full Brunt
A reader reports: Finished “Renewable Energy—Following the Money” last night. Good read, though I didn’t find it quite as compelling as the first two. I only marked about six pages to come back to again later. I found the interview …
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Public Opinion on Climate Change
Here’s a piece of research from Yale University that corroborates my gut instinct: Americans are increasingly aware of and concerned about climate change. But here’s something a bit scary that also rings true to me: Americans’ opinions on many matters …
From Guest Blogger Casey Carter: Climate Change–How a Warming World is a Threat to our Agriculture
Every now and then we being reminded of how our world temperature levels are rising and how, if not checked, will gradually lead to our demise. Scientists, environmentalists and law makers have made policies to try and curb the effects …
Tesla Tackles Global Warming
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. …
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: …
