The name Mohamed Nasheed may ring a bell. He’s a former president of the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, who survived an assassination attempt earlier this year. If his name is, in fact, familiar, it’s probably because …
Category: Climate Change
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) Says Climate Change Is Bullsh*t,” But Will This Work In Today’s World?
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is at the lunatic fringe of the ultra-right, and finds himself up for re-election in 2022. Here’s a campaign ad created by his opponent, in which his says that “climate change is bullshit.” Wisconsin is a …
Florida Realtors Develop Rating System for Climate Change Vulnerability
In response to my post on real estate prices crashing in hurricane-prone regions, 2GreenEnergy supporter Brian McGowan writes: Be advised, real estate companies are developing a system to rate homes based on susceptibility to climate change. Thanks, Brian. It’s impossible …
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Tagged with: Climate Change Vulnerability
Hurricane Ida Expected to Bring 140 MPH Winds When It Hits Louisiana
Under what circumstances would you buy property in Louisiana, knowing that, each summer, there is an ever-increasing probability that a category 4 or 5 hurricane is going to ravage your home? It’s only a matter of time before real estate …
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Anti-Science in the United States
A reader sent me this, remarking “long-term effects of Ivermectin.” When my wife laughed so hard she almost lost consciousness, I thought I would write a quick post on it. The anti-science contingent in the United States is growing larger …
Tagged with: mitigate climate change
First Time Ever Recorded, Rain at the Summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet
From Gizmodo: Last week, the Greenland ice sheet underwent a major melting event—its second in two weeks. This time around, the melting was quickened by a wholly unexpected and unwelcome visitor: rain.
Tagged with: cutting carbon emissions, geoengineering making changes to our atmosphere such that it reflects a higher percentage of the sun's radiation back into space, Greenland ice sheet, increasing the volume of carbon absorbing plants, sea levels rising at an ever increasing rate, The melting of Greenland and the antarctic, thermal expansion of the warming ocean waters
Moving to Electric Transportation
Garrison Keillor began his column today: My favorite word today is “unsubscribe” and I’ve been online clicking it on dozens of emails asking for my cash contributions to their battle in behalf of the good, the true, and the beautiful, …
Tagged with: Moving to Electric Transportation
Climate Advisors To Implement Adaptation Measure on Eight Pacific Islands
The Rocky Mountain Institute, now called RMI, was founded in 1982, dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the general field of sustainability. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting its co-founder, chairman and chief scientist Amory Lovins at multiple conferences. …
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The Irony of Flooding in Texas
The photo here was taken yesterday, when the Texas State Capitol building flooded and this corridor became a lap pool. This, of course, is gushing (pun intended) with irony, given that this is where the legislators who created Texas’s horrific …
Tagged with: energy policy
Global Warming–Taking Real Action
It’s good to see that the news media has amped up its coverage of climate change, and that all but the QAnon-style lunatic fringe understands that human activity is the cause of the problem. That should mean that our civilization …
