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 …
Category: Climate Change
From Guest Blogger Tom Grant: Wind and Water — A Deadly Hurricane Sandy Combination for Your Home
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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 …
Tagged with: Arab Spring, Cameron Atwood, Citigroup, clean energy solutions, Copenhagen carbon-neutral city, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy generation, George Will, global climate change, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mohammed Bouazizi, Rachel Carson, Rebecca Solnit, tar sands pipeline
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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OK, Quick — What's the REAL Obstacle to Halting Climate Change?
I’m what could be called a “compulsive guesser.” When someone asks me something – it could be the outdoor temperature or the latitude of Sri Lanka — I always take a guess before looking it up. When I came across …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Global Warming
Question: Most of us who follow the reports of our climate scientists understand that the average temperature of the Earth’s surface is rising. When was the last time in our planet’s history that the summer melting of the arctic ice …
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Climate Scientist James E. Hansen To Retire from NASA To Pursue Climate Change Activism
I’m sad to see that climate scientist James E. Hansen, after a 46-year career at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will retire to pursue his activism on climate change. I can only image that the federal government is happy …
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Climate Change and Peak Oil
Here’s a lecture on global climate change and peak oil by British geologist and author Dr. Jeremy Leggett. If you want to know why we need an aggressive policy that curtails the burning of fossil fuels, and you want to …
Tagged with: burning fossil fuels, Dr. Jeremy Leggett, global climate change, global warming, peak oil
From Guest Blogger Alia: Bad Effects of Climate Change in the World
The repercussions about climate change are pretty diverse and prove out to be very much damaging to millions of people dwelling at different parts of this planet especially to the people based in developing nations. Most of the climate changes …
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