In recent times the UK has dealt with its fair share of flooding, and while the government response has been questioned by some (a majority of poll responders felt the government did a poor job responding to the flooding), the …
Category: Climate Change
Taking Steps to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Diminish the Level of Pollutants that Cause Lung Damage
It’s unclear why we needed a collaborative effort in 2014 from Harvard and Syracuse Universities to tell us what should have been obvious for decades. But now, I suppose, it’s that much closer to being “official” (in whatever sense of …
Carbon Tax to Mitigate Climate Change – Fascinating Debate
I believe everyone should see the five-minute-long video embedded in this article, in which conservative Republicans of various stripes debate the concept of a revenue-neutral carbon tax as a tool to take a proactive step to mitigate climate change. As …
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From 2GreenEnergy Intern Oliver Goavec: Europeans and Americans Have Different Perceptions on Climate Change — Part Three of Three
Europe and the U.S. have common points. Here are a few things to note: – In 2002, the Clear Skies and Global Climate Change law. The objectives were to cut emissions of sulfur dioxide by 73%, nitrogen oxide by 67%, …
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Oliver Goavec: Europeans and Americans Have Different Perceptions on Climate Change — Part Two of Three
Decisions Made In the Past International agreements concerning climate change are complicated because a consensus must be found. Since the first summit in 1972, four more have been held. In 1982, for the second summit in Nairobi, dealing with the …
Pope Francis: Causing Climate Change = Sin
Of the 3734 blog posts I’ve written here since 2GreenEnergy’s inception in 2009, only a few contain references to religion. This is not an accident. I figure I alienate enough people with my condemnation of the fossil fuels industries, the …
Demand Action on Climate Change
I haven’t been involved in a super-abundance of protest marches through the years, though I did carry a sign calling for the end of the war in Vietnam in the early 1970s, and, last summer, I took my wife and …
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Oliver Goavec: Europeans and Americans Have Different Perceptions on Climate Change — Part One of Three
The U.S. and Europe have a special link; the role that these two entities have played toward each other over the course of history is strong. France with Lafayette helped the U.S. to become independent and the U.S. helped Europe …
Europeans’ and Americans’ Perceptions on Climate Change Are Quite Different
Our wonderful French intern, Olivier Goavec, is in the process of finalizing an article called “Europeans and Americans Have Different Perceptions on Climate Change.” I thought readers might be interested in the comments I just wrote back to him during …
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Goodbye, Greenland Ice Sheet
A few months ago I had dinner with a climate scientist at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, CA) whose job is using cutting-edge technology to measure the size and health of the Greenland Ice Sheet. In keeping to my …
