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 …
Category: Climate Change
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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From Guest Blogger Tom Grant: Wind and Water — A Deadly Hurricane Sandy Combination for Your Home
Hurricane Sandy was one of the deadliest and costliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States. Images of flooded subway tunnels, destroyed boardwalks, and millions without power will not soon be forgotten. The storm was also a reminder for people …
Tagged with: Storm surge
Quantifying the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Scientific Literature
Here’s a very scholarly publication documenting a broad consensus on AGW (anthropogenic global warming) in scientific literature. Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I’ve always hated articles like these. An article about articles? A “meta-article,” I guess it could …
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Global Climate Change and Hurricane Prediction
I just spent an hour doing something I normally skip: I participated in a comprehensive webinar from Schneider Electric on the annual hurricane prediction. The bottom line is that their chief scientist is expecting an average year for 2013. But …
Hope, Activism, and Climate Change
2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood sent me this incredible, wide-ranging article by political activist Rebecca Solnit. Its theme is critically important to people trying to making sense of our modern world – and especially to those of us trying to change …
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Melting of Arctic Ice — An Important Feedback Loop in Climate Change
Here’s a very accessible video on the melting of the arctic ice. Thanks to my fine friend and 2GreenEnergy associate Terry Ribb for calling it to my attention. In a related story, here’s a piece on the effect that climate …
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