Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty commented on my post Explaining Humankind’s Blase’ Response to Climate Change: “The reason that people aren’t frantic about it: Since 1910, the planet has warmed roughly 1 degree C, and very few people would say that …
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Here’s an article that points out why geo-engineering, i.e., attempts to control the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere by injecting chemicals into it, is a challenge fraught with problems. Tell me about it. If there were unintended consequences associated with filling …
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Like my mother, a kindred spirit, I have to admit that I worry, a habit that is, to a degree, pathological. Worry doesn’t change the future; it only depresses us. And, though 99% of the subject of our worry never …
As we all know, there are a few beneficial effects of global warming – at least in the short-term. Apparently, the governor of Maine saw fit to point out that the melting ice is opening up the Arctic for shipping, …
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I’m leaving in a few minutes to listen to a presentation on climate change and its potential solutions by a fellow named Rinaldo Brutoco. I’ve met him before, and he’s an extremely powerful speaker with some good ideas. Unfortunately, he’s …
In the four-and-a-half years I’ve been writing these posts, I don’t think I’ve referred to Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” even once. Shame on me. I hope readers will take a few minutes and listen to last night’s performance …
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Here’s an informative interview with South African activist and professor Patrick Bond, who spoke with Democracy Now!‘s Mike Burke at the March for Climate and Social Justice in Warsaw. As he discusses here, Dr. Bond believes, as I do, that …
Here’s the executive summary of the IEA’s (International Energy Agency) 2013 World Energy Outlook. No surprise: it expresses concern about climate change from our unabating reliance on fossil fuels, which represents about two-thirds of our total greenhouse gas emissions. Although …
Frequent commenter and colleague Tim Kingston sent me this piece about the burden that environmentalism places on the poor and asks: Are things really this bad in CA? I respond: Of course, a tax on our consumption of energy hits …
Here’s another in a series of fairly sophisticated discussions on the LCA (lifecycle analysis) of electric vehicles versus internal combustion engines, showing the exact fallacies in the reports that conclude that EVs are worse for the environment. At the end …
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