Category: Climate Change

From The Energy Society: Legal cases in state and federal courts across the country are challenging the limits of US environmental law. Among them is West Virginia vs. the EPA, which is destined to become one of the most important …

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Here’s a Jeopardy-style answer/question for you.  In the category Geoengineering: It’s the percentage of the incoming solar radiation that we must reflect back into space in order to stop global warming dead in its tracks. Correct response: What is 1%? …

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Political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt gave us the words here. In the context of the Holocaust, this makes perfect sense.  We can say that the people who committed those atrocities failed to think of the consequences, and …

What Is Evil, and From Where Does It Derive? Read More »

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Ted Nordhaus is best known for his position that the environmentalism movement is doomed to failure, and that it should be extinguished, so as to allow pure market forces to come along and win the day. Let’s begin by noting …

Ted Nordhaus in the Economist: Green Activists Mislead and Hold Back Progress Read More »

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This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth (LTG), a report on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, by Donella H. Meadows et. al. People long before them understood …

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What Harrison Ford says here is on point, but keep in mind that our “leaders” are simply reflecting what voters want.  They understand that most people will make precious few sacrifices for the good of the people who will inhabit …

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OK, it’s whom to believe, but this guy makes an excellent point. It’s like so many things in our world today. We’re surround by real estate salespeople opining on the validity of climate science and landscape architects telling us the …

We Need To Believe One Side or the Other: Choose Wisely Read More »

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Here’s a fabulously passionate  article on climate change journalism. It’s written by veteran reporter Sammy Roth, the Los Angeles Times energy correspondent, who also writes the weekly Boiling Point newsletter and previously reported on energy for the Desert Sun and USA Today. IMO, it’s …

Brilliant Climate Change Article Read More »

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Great point here, and I think pretty much every one of us understands this, at least at some level. It’s still tempting to “get into it” with the Big Lie people, the anti-vaxxers, the climate deniers, and so forth, but …

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I had perhaps 8 – 10 clients in Texas through the many years I operated my marketing services business, mainly in Dallas and Austin, one in Houston.  I never resented going there, perhaps due to the fact that I was …

Life in Texas Is a Real Mind-Bender Read More »

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