Those of us who think about climate change often imagine ourselves in this scenario: we live long enough to experience some extremely severe effects of global warming, perhaps a rise in sea levels that has forced whole populations to abandon …
Category: Climate Change
U.S. Military Looks at Climate Change and National Security
Here’s a 68-page report from 2007 on the impact of climate change on American national security, created by a team of 11 retired generals and admirals. Though I didn’t read every word, I found no real surprises here, other than …
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Busting Myths on Climate Change
Here’s one of those “myth-buster” pieces on climate change published a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times. Note that it echoes a bunch of the argumentation you’ll find here at 2GreenEnergy. For instance, while it’s true that …
Examining Climate Change’s Long-Term Effects
When we think about the ultimate consequences of climate change, we think immediately about the loss of farm land to desertification, but we also think of sea-level rise. As the major ice sheets melt, e.g., in Greenland, and the coastlines …
From Guest Blogger Hannah Whittenly: Exploring Climate Change — Common Natural Disasters that Weren’t Common 50 Years Ago
Fifty years ago, people weren’t hearing about the number of natural disasters that are so prevalent today. According to AccuWeather.com, a report published by the New England Journal of Medicine stated that the incidence of reported natural disasters is increasing, …
The Way To Get People Doing X Is Getting Scientists To Suggest Y
Frequent commenter and all-around cool guy Brian McGowan just sent me this post from EmmKay. Wow, that says it all, doesn’t it? Nice job to you both.
“Years of Living Dangerously” Covers Climate Change in a Fantastically Interesting Way
Unfortunately, the masterpiece documentary series on climate change “Years of Living Dangerously” that aired from April to June of this year was made available only on the cable channel “Showtime,” and so had a fairly limited viewership. That’s a pity, …
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Note to the U.S. Republican Party on Environmentalism, Climate Change
It’s a shame that we in the U.S. have only two viable political parties. Sadly, the Independents, the Greens, and so forth tend to attract only small fringes of voters, and this isn’t particularly good for a country trying to …
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Obama Once More Vocal on Climate Change, Renewable Energy
As his term in office draws nearer to a close, U.S. President Obama has begun again to talk about climate change and the imperative to reduce our contributions to its causes. If I were he, I would inform the nation …
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Climate Change Denial and Anti-Intellectualism
Paul Krugman’s op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times gets at a point that I’ve been making off and on for several years: the anti-intellectualism that pervades a huge swath of our voter population here in the United States. Large numbers …
