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 …
Category: Climate Change
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 …
The Role of Government in Climate Change Mitigation
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry on Tuesday said he believed the private sector was more likely to find solutions to climate change than government. “I was convinced, and I remain convinced, no government is going to solve this problem,” Kerry said …
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Sunny Day Flooding Produces Some Cool Effects
As suggested in this video, climate change brings completely unforeseen phenomena, some of which are actually quite amusing. What happens to a low-lying area that has been subjected to climate change driven sea-level rise that frequently experiences sunny day flooding? …
Germany Experiencing High Rate of Warming
The headline in the graphic translates into English (roughly) as “Warming trend in Germany stronger than worldwide.” (See larger graphic below.)
Good Thing We Have an Expert On Board!
We all know people who, despite knowing nothing about a certain scientific discipline, have unshakable convictions that fly in the teeth of the experts in the area–that they feel compelled to impose onto others. Before QAnon, this was largely confined …
Tagged with: anti-vaxxers, climate denying, flat-Earthers, pandemic hoaxers, Qanon, school-shooting hoaxers
Bold Actions Can Have Unintended Consequences
It’s the Ides of March, the date in 44 BCE on which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the building that housed a meeting of the Roman Senate. A conspiracy of men called the Liberators had been plotting his …
Tagged with: geoengineering
Humor Intermixed with Tragedy
It’s a tragedy that we have people who lack a 6th grade education in science influencing policy-making that will mean the difference between life and death for the human civilization. That doesn’t mean that we can’t smile at comments like …
Kiss The Ground
The Sierra Club makes the point that most documentaries on climate change leave their audiences with a sense of hopelessness, whether by design or by accident. And indeed, the problem is large and growing, and human civilization, fragmented as it …
“Politicians Discussing Global Warming” (Berlin)
Powerful image here. I can’t say what the issues preventing progress are in Germany, but here in the U.S., we have an entire political party that is trying to convince us of something they know to be false, i.e., that: …
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