Since its inception in 2009, 2GreenEnergy has been making predictions regarding our civilization’s response to climate change, noting along the way that there are several enormous impediments to progress: • Greed and disinformation. The corporate world, and especially the energy …
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This is what a city in China looks like after receiving eight months of rain in five days, viewed through a few hundred feet of air pollution. A catastrophe, to be sure. The real problem, however, is that disasters like …
The president of a large university in Texas told me recently that the only person in the country who makes (Texas governor) Greg Abbott look good is (Florida governor) Ron DeSantis. The meme speaks volumes to the right-wing extremism that …
Question: We all have a sense that climate disasters with devastating effects are on the rise. Between 1980 and 2019, the United States experienced an average of 6.5 disasters per year that cost at least $1 billion. What has been …
As discussed in this article, China is in the process of carrying out an “eco-migration” in which millions of people are being removed from rural parts of the country where avalanches have ruined rice paddies, the soil has become degraded …
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From Bloomberg: Greenland has decided to drop all future exploration for oil as the government responds to environmental concerns, according to Danish media. Naalakkersuisut, as the island’s government is called, “has decided that the environmental consequences of oil exploration and …
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Here’s a piece from Reuters that suggests that U.S. banks may be required to undergo climate-related “stress tests,” to ensure that they have sufficient resilence in the case of disasters caused by climate change: floods, droughts, wildfires, etc. Fed Chair …
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The history of climate science, and in particular, an understanding of the role that greenhouse gases play in global warming, actually predates the article at left by many years. In 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius claimed that fossil fuel combustion may …
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This guy makes an excellent point. When we want to go blow something to pieces, there is remarkably little conversation about it. On the other hand, allocating even small amounts of money for something that helps people, or in this, …
I’m sure this is true, if we can get past this rough patch, where we’re flirting with authoritarianism and Orwellian undermining of truth. Keep in mind that Biden is 65% – 31% in the age 18 – 24 segment. Young …
