This MSN.com article begins: Late Sunday night, Lauren Boebert shared this post on social media, where she openly disparaged climate activists. “You’ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protesters trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to …
Category: Climate Change
Seven Different Climate Records Set in 2023
Here’s an article in Global Citizen that begins: Record heat. Record rain. Record fires. Recording-breaking environmental news is starting to sound like a broken record. As Samantha Burgess, the deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), summed it up: …
Decarbonizing Our Homes
Dr. Tom Konrad, whom I interviewed for my book “Is Renewable Really Doable?” writes: “New Yorkers for Clean Power‘s energy coaching program (for which I coach) got a mention on Canary Media today.” Here’s the article to which he’s referring, …
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Phasing Out Fossil Fuels from Powering Our Lawn Tools
The Los Angeles Times reports: Gas-powered yard tools may be harder to come by starting this year. Assembly Bill 1346 requires phasing out fossil fuel-fueled leaf blowers, lawnmowers, weed trimmers, chain saws and other tools. The tools were targeted for …
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Mitigating Aircraft Contributions to Climate Change
Everyone knows that burning jet fuel releases CO2 into the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and further warming the Earth. But did you know that contrails act to make the situation even worse? And that some of our top scientific …
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Science and Critical Thinking
The author of the cartoon here conflates “capacity for critical thinking” and the “training to conduct scientific research,” even though they are two different things. When it comes to space exploration, disease control, climate science, etc., all the critical thinking …
Cows and Our Environment
A few incorrect (though fairly unimportant) claims in the meme here: Cow poop creates biodiversity. Wrong. See link. The lifecycle of grass takes CO2 out of the air and replaces it with oxygen. Throughout a 24-hour cycle, the intakes and …
“Trackless Trams”
I encourage readers to check out the “future of transportation” solution presented in this video. These “trams” have rubber tires and therefore, can cruise around all over our 4.09 million miles of our roads, not bound to follow rail tracks. …
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Big Oil and Climate Disinformation
As previously mentioned, FAIR is a national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. It’s best known for its weekly radio program “Counterspin,” syndicated across 160 stations. This week’s broadcast, “Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on …
Number of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at Climate Meeting “Beyond Justification”
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: This climate meeting was all about fossil fuel strategies and alliances to wipe out renewable energy. There is no doubt that this was the focus on the part of Big Oil. Looked at …
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