The world population growth is 0.85%. In the developed world (OECD countries), it’s about 0.5%. It’s not credible to me that our civilization is threatened by this. But if I were concerned, I’d ask a scientist whose life’s work is …
Category: Climate Change
Is Saudi Arabia Really Planting Millions of Trees in the Desert to Fight Climate Change?
When the leaders of Saudi Arabia aren’t dismembering journalists for their opposing points of view politically, they’re making trillions of dollars from selling oil. The idea that they’re at all concerned about the environment is ludicrous. It would also be …
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Handing the Keys to the Kingdom over to the Chinese
When I argue for environmental responsibility and the decarbonization of the grid, I often say: I know there are people who believe, perhaps because this is what they’re told by Donald Trump, that climate change is a hoax. But are …
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The Rejection of Science
We may think that it is uniquely American to discard science as the tool to determine the truth in subjects like the environment, vaccinations, the shape of the Earth, etc. After all, we re-elected Donald Trump to lead our country, …
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Climate Summit and Fossil Fuels
Here’s a question: Why in hell would anyone go to COP30 (climate summit) if it can’t call for the phasing out of fossil fuels? I remember my interview with Dr. V. (“Ram”) Ramanathan in preparation for my first book: Renewable …
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The Brave Bill Nye
This pic of Bill Nye reminds me of all the radio and television interviews I did when I was promoting my books a decade ago. I never asked too much about the audience demographics in advance; I just presumed they …
When Will the Gulf Stream Collapse?
There is so much we don’t know about all the moving parts that affect regulating our planet’s climate. Are greenhouse gas emissions making it harder to reflect the energy from incoming solar radiation back into space? Yes. There are crackpots …
We Have a Chance to Avert the Worst Effects of Climate Change
Those of you who have seen Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” will remember the scene in which young (9 years old?) Alvy Singer is so depressed about the ultimate fate of the Earth/universe (see clip below) that he cannot function and …
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The Many Threats Associated with Climate Change
Of the dozens of people I’ve spoken to about climate change, it’s interesting that there are so many different viewpoints as to the gravest dangers it represents to human civilization. The fellow at left seems to think it’s food shortages, …
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Trump and Climate Change
As shown in this short video, Donald Trump says that climate change is the biggest con job ever perpetrated on Earth. We are to believe that Trump a) understands the subject better than the thousands of our planet’s top scientists, …
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