Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed suit against fossil fuel organizations ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute. Minnesota joins at least 15 other plaintiffs, including attorneys general in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island, who have brought …
Category: Climate Change
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Townspeople Face Unusual Weather, Climate
Question: There are two unique but related things about the small town of Verkhoyansk in Siberia, about 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. What are they? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: If climate change weren’t …
I’ll Go with Science on This One
Just a reusable rocket booster, that lands on a tiny little barge named: “Yes, I Still Love You,” 300 miles out into the Atlantic. This one’s been reused five times… This is one of the things that is causing climate …
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Peak CO2?
From E&ENews: Global CO2 has risen for a century. That appears to be over. The pandemic has made a huge dent in fossil fuel consumption, but have we hit the peak of CO2 emissions? Is there any reason that, post-COVID, …
Now Really IS a Tough Time to Write About the Climate
Brother, I feel your pain. I try to write posts about whatever comes up in the news cycle, e.g., the concept that biodiversity and climate stability play a role in preventing another pandemic. Having said that, the acute situations really …
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Carbon Dioxide Concentrations Continue to Rise
The concentration of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas in our Earth’s atmosphere, averaged 417.1 parts per million, up 2.4 ppm from last year at this time. One might hope that the lower emissions associated with the pandemic might help, …
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Vox Terra and Climate Denial
Here’s one in an excellent series of videos called Vox Terra (“voice of the Earth”) that covers the climate change denial industry. Because of the sheer immensity of the oil companies, countless millions of dollars are available to ensure its …
Canadian Climate Science Denier Faces Stinging Words, Libel Charges
Here’s an interesting story out of Canada that addresses their take on free speech. Like America’s, the Canadian Constitution protects citizens’ rights to speak freely under most circumstances. Yet their courts’ interpretation of what we call our First Amendment is …
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Celebrating a Climate Victory: “Big Oil No Longer Quite as Big”
It’s becoming clear that Big Oil is in the process of losing its death-grip on the world energy industry. Though this will be an uneven process, it clearly is moving in this direction. Sure, it will be helped along by …
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Climate Deniers and Flawed Science
From Desmog: In January, a trio of climate science deniers with ties to fossil fuel funding published a flawed paper claiming that models of the social cost of carbon pollution are underestimating CO2’s impact on plants and that carbon pollution …
