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 …
Category: Climate Change
Climate Activism
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 …
Monetizing a Planet On Fire
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 …
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….Doesn’t End Well
Correct. Our current climate trajectory ends in unprecedented suffering and death for entire populations of people and other living things.
Climate Change and Real Estate Prices
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 …
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Provocative, But Unanswerable Question: What will California look like if a massive glacier melts? Here’s your answer.
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 …
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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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