Pessimistic articles on climate change like this one from yesterday’s New York Times always get me thinking: what can we be doing to cut back on fossil fuel emissions? Obviously this is a tough problem in a number of ways, principally …
Category: Climate Change
Celebrating the Climate Agreement Forged by Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping
A reader responded to my Thanksgiving Day post in which I called for all Americans, especially those to the left of center politically, to stop griping about what Obama has not brought us, and to be grateful for what we …
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Giving Thanks for Environmental Progress
What gets Americans jumping up and down for joy? We don’t seem to be in a particularly festive mood at this point in time. And don’t get me wrong; though we all may have many things for which to …
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How Much Do We Care About Climate Disruption?
Environmentalists here in the U.S. can find it difficult to appreciate humor that depicts an alarming truth: most Americans care very little about all this stuff. In surveys, about 70% say they are willing to pay extra for eco-friendly products, …
Sluggish Response To Environmental Issues? Could Be a Great Deal Worse
Many of us complain bitterly about the U.S. government’s lethargy re: mitigating climate disruption and embracing clean energy solutions. Yet we live with frequent reminders of how much worse it could be. Take the Land Down Under, for instance. Pictured below …
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Global Warming Is Real, and the Atmosphere’s Temperature Is Rising, But There Is Additional Heat Whose Path Is Still Not Completely Understood
Much has been written about the potential causes in the slowdown of the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere. Climate scientists are quite confident in the validity of the greenhouse effect, but they’re still trying to account for all the heat …
Some Weighty Organizations Believe Climate Disruption Is a Big Deal
I just got an email from an associate who attached a scanned copy of this article (here and here) on the Pentagon’s viewpoint on the national security threat posed by climate disruption; they seem especially concerned about the imminent shortages …
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Royal Dutch Shell CEO: “Climate Change Is Real, and It’s a Threat” – But What Do Their Actions Show?
The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, recently stood up for climate science and said, “We’re not aligning with skeptics.” He went on to say, “Let me be very, very clear, for …
Global Climate Disrupution and the “Anthropocene Era”
Let me call readers’ attention to Glenn Doty’s incredible comments on my post about the new “Anthropocene Era,” so named because of the vast impact humankind has had recently on the planet, and the fact that this impact can only …
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Virtually All Congressional Climate Deniers Rush to Explain: “I Am Not a Scientist.” Aren’t We Tiring of This?
Apparently, Marco Rubio (pictured), Mitch McConnell, and the legion of other climate deniers in the U.S. Congress are all coached by the same guy. There is no other explanation for the fact that their responses to questions on their anti-scientific …
