Apparently Greta Thunberg is a controversial figure, though it’s hard to understand why. She’s insisting that the people running the world, i.e., the generation ahead of her, take better care of the Earth. Somehow, that seems just fine to me. …
Category: Climate Change
ExxonMobil Rebel Shareholders Want To Confront Climate Change
An old friend, now a law professor at Georgetown, writes about this: Today is the showdown between ExxonMobil and rebel shareholders trying to convince the company to confront climate change and install four new independent directors. The vote will come …
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Tagged with: Divestment movements, fossil fuel industry, growing viability of electric transportation and popularity among consumers, Litigation from shareholders and potential criminal charges re: hiding what they knew about climate change and thus the value of their assets, no path from burning hydrocarbons to decarbonization, plummeting costs of renewables, showdown between ExxonMobil and rebel shareholders, World governments (especially in the EU) banning the sale of new internal combustion engines
The Shareholder Revolution At ExxonMobil Is an Example of a Larger Trend
From the Washington Post: A group of insurgent investors backed by the three largest pension funds in America is trying to force ExxonMobil to take climate change much more seriously — not just for the sake of the company’s viability …
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Arctic Heat Wave
It’s mid-May and temperatures near the Arctic Circle in Russia are about 40°F above normal. Yesterday’s high in the town of Kolezma hit 91°, bizarre but to be expected, given that the Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as …
Biden and Climate: What’s Next?
Here’s a well thought-through piece called “Five great things Biden did for the climate in 100 days — and 4 things he should do next.” The author mentions Biden’s work in undoing the damage caused by his predecessor. Trump was …
Tagged with: Biden undoing the damage caused his predecessor, development of solutions that will help turn the planet around from its race to destruction, nature-based climate solutions, replacement of red meat with plant-based products, stop the destruction of Earth's rainforests, sustainable farming, Trump was a wrecking ball for everything pertaining to the environment
ExxonMobil Reducing Emissions?!
Here’s a piece from ExxonMobil explaining how it intends to reduce emissions. A couple of observations: Let’s begin by noticing the irony here. This is a company that spent 25 years and countless millions of dollars hiding what it knew …
Tagged with: avoid environmental collapse, combustion of the gasoline and diesel, Exxon made it impossible for the world scientific community develop technology that could have nipped global warming in the bud, Exxon spent 25 years and countless millions of dollars hiding what it knew about the effects of its emissions on the Earth's atmosphere and spreading what it knew to be lies about it, Exxon's culture of deception and treachery, Exxon's upstream (extraction) and downstream operations (refinement), ExxonMobil and the rest of Big Oil, ExxonMobil intends to reduce emissions, put ExxonMobil in its grave
Global Warming and Increasing Levels of Precipitation
From Yale Climate Connections: The Southwest is the only region experiencing a decrease in heavy precipitation events. But even there, the intensity of rainfall during the region’s monsoon season has increased since the 1960s, according to a study in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical …
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Tagged with: about half of all Americans say they don't believe they will experience the effects of climate change in their lifetimes, average temperature of the U.S. has warmed by 1 degree Celsius, California water levels haven't been lower at any time in the past four decades, greenhouse gas emissions, wildfires, Yale Climate Connections
Will World Leaders Take Action To Mitigate Climate Change?
This fellow thinks it’s folly to expect world leaders to do anything substantial about climate change. I’m not as pessimistic, though I admit that this is an extremely complicated situation. To begin with, solving the climate problem in such a …
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Global Warming and Continuous Change
From CBS News: Just a quick glance at the new U.S. Climate Normals maps published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Tuesday is enough for most climate scientists to say, “I told you so.” And it’s not just because the …
What’s Destroying the Arctic Sea Ice?
Here’s a piece on “heat bombs” that researchers believe are a chief cause of the vast Arctic ice-melt taking place before us. Until now, it was known that all sea ice is on a path to disappear in the Arctic …
