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 …
Category: Climate Change
Provocative, But Unanswerable Question: What will California look like if a massive glacier melts? Here’s your answer.
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Addressing Climate Change
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 …
Congressional Childishness Hurts Us All
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 …
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Deadly Heat Waves
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 …
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Ridiculing Climate Science with Fabricated BS
An old friend sent me this, as apparent evidence that environmental science has no idea what it’s talking about, and that climate change is a hoax. It’s perfectly possible that some jackass predicted in 2005 that New York City would …
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Supreme Court Oddities
The only one missing here, it seems to me, is the hamstringing of the EPA when it comes to limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Biden Must Act on Climate Change Mitigation
The logjam in the U.S. Congress has meant essentially zero progress of environmental sustainability, and climate change mitigation in particular. This is hardly a surprise, due to the demands of the billionaire class and the stranglehold it has over our …
Capitalism and Climate Change Solutions
FWIW, this is what I’ve concluded over the past decade or so, during which I’ve been reading and writing on the subject. Capitalism, which means ignoring the needs of others, is the antimatter of climate change solutions, as well as …
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Climate Change and the “Gates of Hell”
We’ve all had the impulse to provide serious answers to rhetorical questions. An old friend who lives in the central part of Texas, where afternoon temperatures are hovering close to 100° F, sent me the meme here and asked, “Who …
It Must Be Frustrating ….
It’s funny you mention that. I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego for the chapter on climate change in my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies.
