Writing for RenewableEnergyWorld, my colleague Jennifer Runyon begins her recent article on ExxonMobil and climate change: We don’t cover climate change news all that much here on RenewableEnergyWorld.com. The reason for that is that we view climate change as just …
Category: Climate Change
ExxonMobil To Shareholders: Climate Change Is Real, and It’s Threatening
I had to laugh when I read this. Yes, ExxonMobil is acknowledging the fact of climate change. But from the headline, I inferred that the fossil fuel giant had come to terms with the fact that its products are ruining …
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American Physical Society Discusses Climate Change and its Mitigation
My colleague Jim Boyden (PhD, physics, Cal Tech, 1960) was kind enough to brief me on the highlights of the meeting of the American Physical Society at the University of California at Berkeley last weekend. The core of the meeting, …
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Two Bad Ideas in the Last Ten Minutes
Within ten minutes of one another, I: 1) Got a call from someone with a perpetual motion machine that involves the movement of buoyant objects in water (I see at least two of these per year), and 2) Encountered this …
International Panel on Climate Change Has a Tough Job
I just did a phone interview for a young lady writing a paper for a course she’s taking in college, which reminded me of how passionate the youth of today is about climate change and the environment more generally. She …
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Climate Change and the Choice of Our Sources of Information
Here’s a popular video that makes an extremely important point: in problem solving – and in life in general – we tend to confirm what we believe, even though disconfirming our beliefs is so much more productive. This, of course, …
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From Guest Blogger Simon Thomas: Can SUDS stop the floods?
As someone who has been involved in water and flood management for several decades the ongoing delay to SUDS legislation in the UK has been an intriguing saga to follow. But firstly, I would like to get one thing straight. …
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Climate Change and Our Regard for Science
Earlier today, I was driving to a lunch meeting with a potential investor in our clean energy investment opportunities, and I had the good fortune to find a lecture by Buddhist philosopher Alan Watts on the radio. The talk brought …
Dealing with the “Gravitational Pull” of Fossil Fuels
Here’s an article by an author with keen insight into the issues that will shape the future of humankind on this planet: Michael T. Klare, the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, …
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From Guest Blogger Kimberly Grimms: The True Cost of Climate Change To World Resources
During the last hundred years, the world has transformed into a new climatical era – where temperatures have exceeded global averages for 36 consecutive years. We live in a world of more than 7 billion people, where carbon dioxide emissions …
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