When Trump exits the White House, he will leave the United States to lick its wounds for many years to come. Eventually, the nation will repair its relationships with its traditional allies, put an end to the senseless trade wars, …
Trump’s Plan To Destroy the Arctic Comes Together, Will It Be Implemented? Read More »
Gary Tulie writes: Since we all breath the same air and stand to suffer one way or another from climate change, I hope we can all set aside political rivalries to continue and expand cooperation on the further refinement of these …
Expanding International Cooperation Required to Mitigate Climate Change Read More »
Pictured here is a cemetery in northwestern Canada whose grave markers were anchored in ice thought at the time to be permanent, now melting rapidly. From The Guardian:
As shown here, as time passes, global warming means successively less sea ice in the Arctic. Since this ice is (was) floating, its melting makes no change in the sea level, unlike when even a far tinier amount melts off …
Focusing on Arctic Sea Ice Loss Is Important, But Doing It Isn’t a Walk in the Park Read More »
We live in times in which many of us are functioning with a grossly diminished capacity to think. This has numerous consequences that go far beyond our ability to distinguish left from right (see photo), and it explains how it’s …
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As is the case with so many of our human endeavors, there are people on all sides of the issue of climate change, its importance, and tactics for its mitigation. In Apocalypse Never, Michael Shellenberger (cover shown here) argues that …
Please pardon the profanity in the discussion at left, but this is too good not to share. I don’t have the level of animus as this guy, but I totally see where he’s coming from. (Btw, the Dunning–Kruger effect is …
Scottish philosopher David Hume left us with this gem: We always disbelieve the greater miracle. We’re constantly bombarded with information that conflicts with things we believe. How do we sort this out? There is really no other way to do …
Question: The building shown here is (was) in Siberia, but it’s falling down. Why? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: It’s also the cause of a 20K gallon oil spill in the same region.
From “Treehugger,” a couple of powerful images in the “climate change” and “water scarcity” categories:
