The blockbuster “Don’t Look Up” is streaming on Netflix, and I can’t recommend it more highly. The Guardian’s Peter Kalmus writes, “I’m a climate scientist. ‘Don’t Look Up’ captures the madness I see every day.” That’s the point, my friend.
Category: Climate Change
What’s Your Sign?
Louie Gohmert’s suggestion a few months ago that the Forest Service should change the moon’s orbit so as to fight climate change left many people palming their faces. Apparently, the good people in Texas’s 1st congressional district (just west of …
The Cost of Ignoring Our Problems
I was listening to economist Robert Reich talk about the mainstream media (MSM) the other day. He began by stating the obvious: the far right stuff from Fox, NewMax, and OAN is essentially a collection of lies and misrepresentations, and …
Tagged with: Carbon Fee and Dividend, costs of Desertification, costs of huge losses of land mass, costs of loss of biodiversity, costs of Ocean acidification, rapid decarbonization of our energy and transportation sectors, reorienting our approach to land use, Robert Reich, tax on carbon and deforestation
Human Civilization Evolved To Be Incapable of Dealing With Climate Change
This is an interesting perspective, isn’t it? Why we as a civilization are so uninterested in averting all-but-certain climate catastrophe is a complex matter. It seems that we’ve evolved as a species to be more or less indifferent to the …
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Tagged with: climate catastrophe
Nobel Laureates Call for Peace Dividend
How would the world change if 2% of what it now spends on the military were shifted to addressing problems like poverty, climate change, and pandemics? Well, if a group of 50 Nobel laureates gets what it’s requesting, we’re about …
The Solutions Are Here, But …..
Growing up and losing one’s innocence certainly does come at a cost. Speaking for myself, until Nixon came along when I was 13, I felt very sure that the grown-ups were doing everything possible to deal with our world’s problems: …
The Climate Crisis “Was Avoidable”
Climate activists tell us that we could have avoided setting the planet on fire. They’re right, of course. But making that happen would have required the executive teams at a large group of the world’s largest corporations to have been …
Climate Change and Road Signage
There are hundreds of different cost items that are associated with climate change. Road signage may not be a super-significant one, but, as suggested here, it’s quite real.
Tagged with: cost items that are associated with climate change
Climate Change Cartoon
As I post the cartoon here, there are 952 comments on this Facebook post. And predictably, there is a bumper crop of climate change hoaxsters. It’s pathetic.
Tagged with: climate change hoaxsters
When Should We Mitigate Climate Change?
The cartoon here reminds me of my interview with the spokesperson for libertarian think tank The Cato Institute. As anyone could have guessed, Cato has arguments against climate change mitigation that could stretch from here to Halifax. One of them, …
