Most environmentally-oriented people know that the waste carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by combustion are the major factor heating up our planet’s atmosphere. A significant proportion of those emissions come from power stations burning coal or natural gas. …
Category: Climate Change
From Guest-Blogger Nick: Is Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) the Best Way to Cut Carbon Emissions?
Tagged with: CCS
Exactly What’s Causing the Melting of Greenland’s Ice?
Those of us who worry about climate change have a great deal of heartburn about the melting of the ice on top of Greenland, which scientists say will be the “dominant contributor to global sea level change over the next …
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On the "Climate Change Debate"
I’m sure 99% of readers here know this, but the “climate change debate” that exists in the United States is an almost entirely local phenomenon. Put another way, there is no controversy whatsoever associated with the subject among educated people …
Social Critic Noam Chomsky on Climate Change
Because Noam Chomsky is so far out of the mainstream discussion, I believe this post may be the first of our 3000+ in which I’ve quoted this American linguist, philosopher, logician, cognitive scientist, historian, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) …
Tagged with: Barack Obama, Chomsky, Mass media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky, politics
Robert Redford Advocating for Climate Change Mitigation
Actor/director Robert Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and an extremely active advocate for climate change mitigation. In this short video linked above, he calls upon U.S. President Obama to keep his word, and fulfill …
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Warming Arctic Threatens To Spread Disease
I wrote a short piece last week suggesting that, although the bad consequences of climate change outweigh the good, there are, in fact, some positive results of a warming planet. An example is longer growing seasons for Canadian farmers. But …
Climate Change Causing Both Beneficial and Harmful Effects
I’ve run across two different reports so far today suggesting that the surge in atmospheric CO2 is causing an increase in the amount of vegetation due to greater photosynthetic activity. I have no doubt that this is true; in fact, …
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From Guest Blogger Jesse Galt: Is Climate Change Being Taken Seriously?
According to a study from Duke University, half of Americans firmly believe in climate change. Another 34% believe that climate change is very likely. However, just because most of the American population acknowledges the existence of climate change doesn’t mean …
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Big Governments Are No Help With Climate Change
In response to my rhetorical question at the conclusion of my recent post on climate change: “(Given that we appear incapable of going after the problem itself), are we going to put dikes around the 217,490 miles of the planet’s coast …
Consolidated Edison Upgrading Infrastructure — Why Not Address The Underlying Problem?
According to this article in SmartGridNews, Consolidated Edison, the power utility that serves New York City and the surrounding region, is in the process of spending $1 billion to upgrade its power delivery infrastructure so to minimize outages in the …
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