The Democracy Now! article begins: This year, there are at least 2,456 lobbyists at COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai — nearly four times as many as last year — from companies like Shell, Total and ExxonMobil. The lobbyists …
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Climate Change “Insanity?”
A reader notes: Bravo! Hats off to Alberta Canada for standing up against the climate change insanity being foisted on them by their federal government. Alberta is Canada’s largest oil producing province, providing 79.2% of Canadian oil production. But I’m …
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Americans’ Priorities
As suggested in this brilliant cartoon, when most Americans go to the polls in 2024, climate change mitigation will not be at the top of their list of priorities. Having said that, Biden has done more than any of his …
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Jamie Dimon Urges Even Liberals to Back Nikki Haley as Alternative to Trump
The headline here is taken from this article in Bloomberg. A few quick points: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase, leads a company that, since the adoption of the Paris agreement, has sat at the top of …
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How Important Is Reducing Emissions?
Here’s Exxon’s survey on the subject. What purpose does it serve? Well, if most people either a) don’t understand the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, or b) reject what our scientists are telling us, the oil giant …
Ill-Informed People Say “Climate Change Is Crap”
Here’s a meme of global warming from a reader whose screen name is “climate change is crap.” FWIW, it’s true that higher concentrations of CO2 promote plant growth, all others things being equal, but this effect is negligible in comparison …
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From the Los Angeles Times: U.S. Revises ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map for Gardeners to Keep Pace with Climate Change
The article begins: Southern staples like magnolia trees and camellias may now be able to grow without frost damage in once-frigid Boston. Here’s another reminder of the fact that not all the effects of global warming are harmful, and longer …
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Whenever We See an Artist’s Rendering, Rather than a Photograph of a Working Prototype, We Need to Wonder
This artist’s rendering at left suggests a device that its proponents say will, one day, capture CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere, and mitigate the growing threat of climate change. But let’s think about this for a moment. The concentration of …
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One Way or Another, Florida Will Eventually “Go Blue”
Ha! Terry Wagner makes an excellent point.
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What To Do (And What Not To Do) About Climate Deniers
I don’t want to see climate deniers in public office any more that Leonardo DiCaprio, but I disagree with him here. Restricting people from government who are unscientific in their thinking is an unsupportable idea, if only because it’s unconstitutional. …
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