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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Trump Trying to Prevent Other Countries from Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Even those of us who detest Trump didn’t see this coming. Withdrawing the United States from the global effort to prevent environmental collapse wasn’t bad enough.
A Few Words from a Climate Skeptic — And a Few of My Own
Mikki Willis writes the following, the first few sentences of a much longer piece: I’ve been studying all sides of the climate change debate for many years — starting back when it was called global warming. Why the rebrand? Because …
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Brilliant Cartoonist Gahan Wilson Should Be Remembered Forever
At left is a piece by the late Gahan Wilson, whose work, which he produced for more than half a century, could be called morbidly funny. I actually don’t think there will come a day when the world suddenly realizes …
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An Idea for the Permian Basin: Leave It Alone
The Permian Basin is a vast sedimentary basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico that is the largest oil and gas-producing region in the United States. I just got an email from “East Daley,” whose white paper Permian Basin …
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