It’s not easy to get an accurate read on Americans’ take on climate change. Sure, most of us recognize that the theory of human-caused global warming is valid, but, no surprise, the subject is just another political football, where the …
Category: Climate Change
BP Retreats on Its Climate Goals
As noted in the Washington Post, BP is scaling back its climate goals and deepening its investments in oil and gas, casting new doubts on big oil companies’ promises to embrace clean energy. This may or may not be related …
Environmental Progress
While it’s true that most of the world is making only meager progress towards their climate/environment goals, certain localities are doing much better than others. Here we see some of the improvements that Dusseldorf, Germany has made.
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Iowa Meteorologist Resigns After Receiving Threats over Climate Change Coverage
From this: When Iowa meteorologist Chris Gloninger got an email notification last June, it read: “Getting sick and tired of your liberal conspiracy on the weather.” “What’s your address,” another asked Gloninger a few days later. “We conservative Iowans would like …
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“Unprecedented” Ocean Heating
The map here shows “the sea surface temperature anomaly on Sunday, June 18. Temperatures off the coast of the UK and Ireland are several degrees higher than usual.” My colleague Joe Spease notes: Trump, Republicans, and other climate change deniers …
Grossly Embarrassing Lecture on Global Warming
A reader offers this lecture delivered at Hillsdale College as proof that there is no scientific consensus that climate change represents a real threat to humankind. It begins: In a recent survey of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries—i.e., …
Big Insurance Follows Climate Science, But You’re Under No Obligation to Do the Same
At left we see the decisions that Allstate and State Farm have made re: climate change. If you live in a trailer park and get your “news” from Fox, Newsmax, and QAnon, you’re probably a climate denier, an anti-vaxxer, a …
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Are There Good Reasons Not to Care about the Future of Our Planet?
I used to co-coach my kids’ soccer with a devout Christian who couldn’t get his wits wrapped around my passion for the environment. Since the world is soon coming to an end, as laid out in the Book of Revelation, …
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Californians Worry about Climate Change
From 2GreenEnergy supporter Rafael Quezada who notes: The sadness is, at times, overwhelming for me. I hear you, my friend. I’m reminded of an old pal who sold his house in Ojai (central California) many years ago, when he saw …
We Can Lie to Our Kids to Prevent Them from Being Scared of Environmental Collapse, But Is that the Right, Honest, and Most Productive Thing to Do?
From ultra-right-wing religious fanatic Mike Huckabee writes: Our kids are hearing that the Earth is doomed. Naturally, they’re scared—but they don’t need to be. It’s why (my) team created The Kids Guide to The Truth About Climate Change. It gives …
