The headline in the graphic translates into English (roughly) as “Warming trend in Germany stronger than worldwide.” (See larger graphic below.)
Category: Climate Change
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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The Young Generation Gets It
When optimistic people say, “The younger generation is extremely progressive and will not stand for things like the destruction of our environment and our society’s indifference to human suffering,” they’re probably not talking about kids as young as the little …
Can Climate Scientists Be Trusted?
One of my favorite high school teachers, Joe Turk, makes this remark: Scientists allowed us to watch live (with a time delay caused by 40 million miles) a rover land on Mars. But some people won’t believe them about climate …
Tagged with: Can Climate Scientists Be Trusted?
The Dalai Lama Sets a Heck of a Good Example for Humankind To Follow, But…..
The Dalai Lama says: Adopting a wider perspective includes working cooperatively with others. Crises that are global by nature, such as problems related to climate change or the modern economic structure, call for coordinated and concerted efforts among many people, …
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Humankind’s Response to Climate Catastrope
Not sure what to make of someone who calls herself a “polyamorous tantric sex guru,” but she certainly has nailed it here, as we’ve often discussed. The more severe conditions get on this planet as a result of its warming, …
Tagged with: Response to Climate Catastrope
