The rank and file tea party pretty much uniformly buys the idea that the theory of global climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the rising tide of socialist forces. Zzzzzzzzzz. Sorry, I must have dozed off there for a …
Category: Climate Change
Yale University's Fantastic Report on the Politics of Climate Change
Here’s a report from Yale University that sheds light on the politics of global climate change. Highlights include: • “A majority of all registered voters (55%) say they will consider candidates’ views on global warming when deciding how to vote.” …
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Climate Change, the Drought, and Social Stability
I look at Michael Klare (Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts) as a kind of Craig Shields on intellectual steroids. He and I agree on essentially everything; the only real difference is his …
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James Hansen, Bill McKibben, and Richard Muller on Global Climate Change
Climatologist James Hansen released a report today that suggests that the probability that this summer’s extreme weather events are caused by anything other than human-caused climate change is extremely low. It comes on the heels of Bill McKibben’s recent article …
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Drought, Extreme Weather, and Global Climate Change
Here’s another article by frequent commenter Glenn Doty on the drought in the United States. Its publication roughly coincides with physicist Dr. Richard Muller’s op-ed in the New York Times, in which he summarizes the work performed over the past …
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Michio Kaku on Global Climate Change
Here’s a video in which Michio Kaku, physics professor at City College of New York, talks on global climate change. I’ve read a couple of his books, and I have to say that he has a wonderfully accessible writing style, …
Climate Change and Energy Policy — Problems and Solutions
In connection with climate change and our energy policy, I recently heard someone say, “21st Century problems demand 21st Century solutions.” I laughed derisively at the time, as it sounded like any one of hundreds of political slogans of yesteryear, …
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Global Climate Change Denier Reverses Position
As noted here, another prominent global climate change denier shifted his position. Again, I wouldn’t know how to hold a belief that runs counter to the almost unanimously accepted scientific position. I could no more convince myself that all these …
Lots of Climate Change Deniers at Today's Meeting
One of the presenters at today’s practice session for the Clean Business Investment Summit has a cool idea with respect to fire suppression, the details of which I’m sure he’d rather that I not divulge. But that’s not the point …
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Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Changes in Consumer Behavior — All Needed At a Massive Scale
A colleague just asked me if I had seen this article in Forbes.com, whose point is that, since climate change affects businesses, businesses would be wise to cut climate-changing emissions. I wrote back: No I hadn’t seen that. It’s pretty …
