From a reader: What I can’t understand is this, supported by about every climate scientist on the globe: If the U.S. stopped producing 100% of all CO2, it would change global temperature by year 2100 a negligible amount (-.246°F) according …
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Re: the new climate/environment bill and my comment that Asia is the real problem in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, a reader notes: Hopefully, it’ll give China/India marginally less cause to drag their feet. Does seem this bill is plausibly …
As suggested here, the most significant beneficiaries of climate activism are either very young or have yet to be born. Yes, wildfires and super-storms are driving people from homes, but the actual environmental damage due to rising temperatures will grow …
There are already fabulous examples of this in the real world, e.g., Nestles’ assertion that water is not a basic human right, but rather a commodity like gold or soybeans that can be offered for sale to people whose rivers …
Correct. Our current climate trajectory ends in unprecedented suffering and death for entire populations of people and other living things.
From NASA: Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to …
What will California look like when a massive glacier melts? Well, it depends on which one, doesn’t it? In truth, the melting of each of our glaciers is a dynamic affair, one we’re learning more about each year. Nothing about …
Here’s an interesting perspective from author, political activist, and social justice advocate Naomi Klein. Yes, this is a “civilizational wake-up call,” but we seem to be continually hitting the snooze button on the alarm. I’m reminded of the cartoon featuring …
Anyone who thinks things have improved since the Obama days is kidding himself. And now, we’re talking about issues that are far less supportable than they were in 2008. Texas is suing the federal government because the state’s OBGYN doctors …
From this piece on the European droughts and heat waves: Record-breaking heat has killed over 1,000 people in Western Europe over the past week, while firefighters battle to contain blazes scorching swathes of three countries amid a worsening climate emergency, officials …
