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 …
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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 …
Climate Denial Requires a Sketchy Belief System
This may sound absurd to you and me, but keep in mind that it’s essentially what climate deniers are claiming. Most of these climate scientists are university professors, which, in my experience, tend not to be conspiratorial criminals.
Census: Puerto Rico’s Population Fell 11.8% to 3.3 Million in the Last Decade
Hurricane Maria in 2017 was only one of Puerto Rico’s woes that resulted in this considerable exodus; earthquakes and the financial debacle springing from its huge debt burden didn’t help either. Unlike the other two, however, hurricanes can only be …
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CO2 Removal
Here’s an article in The New Yorker on the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a subject which, some argue, is 100% vital to the continuation of the human civilization. As we all know, the concentration of CO2 hasn’t …
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New Google Earth Feature: Understanding Climate Change
A new feature of Google Earth enables the user to compare Earth’s surface in 1984 to what it looks like today. If you’re up for it, check out melting glaciers, disappearing forests, and land mass loss due to sea-level rise. …
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The Problem Facing Environmentalists
Re: the meme here, that’s part of the problem, to be sure. But imagine that climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and other breakdowns in our environment were happening, say, three times faster than they now are, and middle-aged …
Coal Keeps the Lights On?
They say, “The future always looks like the past, until it looks like something else altogether.” Given that, perhaps there is hope for this planet. But if the indefinite future looks like what we have right now, and this civilization …
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The Lighter Side of Climate Change
Maintaining a sense of humor through tense times is a must. Here’s a guy reading a peer-reviewed paper on the effects of global warming on the ecosphere, which is doubtlessly very grim news, so his wife found a way to …
Climate Change Mitigation in The Netherlands
We talk a great deal about climate change mitigation, but less about adaptation. The Netherlands, with about one-quarter of its land area below sea level, has always been subject to flooding. Linked above is a cool video that presents what …
