Apparently, the US House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign. Thus far, top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell have testified concerning their roles.
Category: Climate Change
Nothing Mundane about the Maldives
When we think about the Maldives, we do well to leave conventional wisdom behind. From Reuters: The Maldivian president and ministers held the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels …
Tagged with: rising sea levels
Gore Looks to the Youth to Fight Climate Change
There was a pop song about 30 years ago that began, “I believe the children are our future,” which I found amusing. I wish I could have interviewed the lyricist and asked him if his initial idea was that old …
Dystopian Times
This is inspiring, though I’m afraid I’d rather my kids weren’t about to bring babies into a world of nuclear saber-rattling, trending world fascism, white nationalism, and the rejection of science leading to environmental collapse and climate catastrophe.
We Don’t Need To Live in Mud Huts–Further Discussion
Yesterday, a (sarcastic) reader asked: If we all lived in mud huts for 103 years would it put the ice back? Today, she went “back for seconds”: What’s wrong with mud huts? Humanity survived millions of years in them. Aren’t …
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We Don’t Need To Live in Mud Huts
Re: the photos here, a (sarcastic) reader asks: If we all lived in mud huts for 103 years would it put the ice back? Actually, yes. That is, if our individual carbon footprints and other impacts on the environment were …
Can Life on Earth Take Care of Itself?
Here’s a reader with a distinctly negative reaction of climate activists. She writes: I want to stop being demonized by people with bad intent and too much time on their hands who use social media to scare people or point …
Tagged with: climate atmospheric scientists
Expansion of Farmland and Climate Change
As the world’s population grows and consumes more food, a natural effect is the expansion of farmland. And at first glance, that doesn’t sound like too bad a thing; after all, growing plants absorb atmospheric CO2 and convert it into …
Tagged with: Farmland and Climate Change
Supreme Court to Review Limits of U.S. Environmental Law
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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Global Warming and Geoengineering
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%? …
