A reader comments on my article 2GreenEnergy Has A Broad Focus and Results That Are Hard to Measure–But There’s Good News Too…. By the way, very nice piece. I think that the only way we make progress is if people …
Category: Climate Change
Climate Change Denier Heads U.S. Senate Environmental Committee: ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz
It’s customary around here to at least try to add value to articles we cite, like this one, in which U.S. President Obama expresses that he’s disturbed that the Senate Environmental Committee is now run by climate change denier Jim …
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International Energy Agency Announces Pleasant Surprise Re: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
My wife was speaking with her favorite cousin the other day and the topic of environmentalism and renewable energy came up. The cousin said, “You know that stuff Craig’s been doing for all these years? It’s actually starting to work! …
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Senator Calls For Investigation Into The Climate Change 'Denial-For-Hire Scheme'
All those of us who follow the three-ring circus that is the U.S. government when it comes to the discussion on climate change and possible steps towards mitigation must be laughing at the article linked above. This guy happens to …
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Beer Brewers Unite To Call For Action On Climate Change
You gotta love this piece (see title above). I’m reminded of the project I did last year for a client, promoting the idea of building-integrated solar thermal hot water heating. Part of the effort was a day or so in …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Sequestering Carbon
Question: What role can (and should) basalt play in the subject of carbon sequestration? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Our civilization, as denizens of planet Earth, is badly losing the battle to hold the concentration of …
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Obama's Budget Calls For Billions In "Climate Funding"
“Climate funding?” Really? Yes, according to this article, Obama’s budget calls for expenditures of $10 billion or so (out of the $3.99 trillion total) for things like renewable energy incentives, cleantech R&D, etc. But who’s calling this “climate funding?” Its …
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Finding the Truth about Anthropogenic Global Warming: What’s the Greater Miracle?
About 40 years ago I read a couple of the philosophic works of the 18th Century Scottish empiricist David Hume (pictured). I vaguely recall his discussion of the subject itself, i.e., that according to empiricists, the human mind has access only …
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Concerns About Melting Ice Shift To Antarctica
I had a fortuitous conversation a few years ago at an awards dinner. I happened to be seated next to the fellow who runs the program at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) whose purpose is to investigate the melting of ice …
Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change Denialism
A friend sent me this piece on CO2 concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere, and writes: FYI just in case you have not seen this. Yes, that’s interesting. As I may have mentioned, I know a few of these people personally, …
