The American Energy Society makes this comment about the U.S. senatorial elections: The “green wave” fades. Environmentalists’ ambitions failed to materialize nationally. (In the Senate, only two Democrats – John Hickenlooper in Colorado and Mark Kelly in Arizona – pushed environmental …
Category: Climate Change
Shell Oil Gets a Twitter-Pounding for Asking People To Reduce Emissions
Shell Oil asks: “What are you willing to change to help reduce emissions?” and offers the following choices: 💨 Offset emissions, 23.1% ✈️ Stop flying, 6.5% 🚗 Buy electric vehicle, 25.6% ⚡️ Renewable electricity, 44.3% As shown here, Twitter had …
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Business and Climate
Here’s a fabulous graphical presentation on how economic growth going forward and the proliferation of clean energy solutions are, in fact, one in the same. It’s from the Years Project, whose mission is “to compel measurable and effective action on …
Understanding the Value of Plants in Climate Change Mitigation
From a reader: What are farmers doing besides feeding the rest of us? A NASA satellite found some odd readings over the United States. Global warming proponents thought they were onto something. They were surprised to find this image was …
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Tagged with: climate change mitigation
Will Republicans Embrace Climate Change Mitigation?
Here’s a conservative young female voter, imploring the Republican Party to get on board with climate change mitigation. She cites Republicans’ interest in conservation (though she doesn’t seem to realize that this is a thing of the distant past). Ma’am, …
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Tagged with: acceptance of environmental regulation as a good thing, belief that government can solve problems, climate change mitigation, get on board with climate change mitigation, respect for science and willingness to take instructions from the scientific community, telling the oil industry to take a flying leap
Flooding Hot Spots: Why Seas Are Rising Faster on the U.S. East Coast
Sea-level rise is of great concern to climate scientists and, of course, to those who live in flood-prone regions. What’s interesting, though, is that certain coastlines are far more affected by this phenomenon than others. Why? Well, it’s explained in full …
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The Rise of Climate Denial
Reader Jay asks for my response here: I’m curious on your take on what seems like an increase in anti climate change events like the one you reference in your post (“Are Environmental Protectors “Alarmists?”). That video has probably a …
Tagged with: climate change deniers increasing, climate denial, fossil fuel industry continues to pump out disinformation campaigns, Fox News, Koch Industries, libertarian think tanks like the Heartland Institute, Planet of the Humans by Michael Moore, sewing seeds of doubt into our society about climate change, The Social Dilemma
Climate Change Projects Have Been Remarkably Accurate
From reader Jim K.: Regarding your post Are Environmental Protectors “Alarmists?”, I would point out that one side argues that CO2 is the primary control valve for planetary temperatures. The other side argues that CO2 plays a role, but there …
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Are Environmental Protectors “Alarmists?”
My business deals in expediting the phase-out of fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy, electric transportation, and energy efficiency solutions. Moreover, I believe there are both financial and moral reasons for wanting this transition to happen. Financially, we see …
Tagged with: ExxonMobil is traded today at 32.7% of what it was just a few years ago, Heartland Institute, impact of 8 billion people on this planet is causing environmental ruin in the form of climate change ocean acidification loss of biodiversity and widespread disease to humans and other life forms, impossible for humankind to preserve a decent environment (like virtually all our scientists are telling us), phase-out of fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy electric transportation and energy efficiency solutions
2020 On Track To Overtake 2016 as the Hottest Year on Record
Wouldn’t it be positively bizarre if science turned out to be right and the theory of climate change (aka anthropogenic global warming or AGW) turned out to be correct, and the early 21st Century actually turned out to be our …
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Tagged with: anthropogenic global warming
