At last October’s “Bioneers” conference, legendary environmentalist Paul Hawken spoke about Project Drawdown, the climate change mitigation effort he co-founded.
Category: Climate Change
Crises Don’t Bring Changes
I thought this guy was serious–until I read past the first sentence. And he’s correct, of course. Catastrophes have no effect on the way the U.S. federal government is structured, how it functions, or whom it serves. As long as …
Living Without Ice
Here’s an article on the importance of sea ice, and how the arctic is steadily losing it. Arctic summers will be ice-free in 30 years, possibly sooner if the current trend prevails.
Climate Change Mitigation: Trump’s Interior Department Aiding the Enemy
From the New York Times: An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change — including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial — into the agency’s …
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Ocean Warming
Here’s a cool video in which a fish explains the threat to his class of vertebrates posed by warming oceans. I had never realized that fish now need to swim deeper so as to get into cooler waters, thus making …
Hotter, Drier Summers Having Strange and Terrible Effects
Scientists will be discovering new effects of global warming, most of them harmful, for an indefinite period of time into the future. My wife, devotee of Thoroughbred breeding and racing, came across this just now, pertaining to reproductive health of …
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Planting Trees
This is another of those posts inspired by the artwork of Maurizio Rega, who, as if it needs to be said, specializes in trees. Fun facts: Trump, the only world leader who denies the theory of anthropogenic climate change has …
Tagged with: anthropogenic climate change
When It Comes To Planning Around Climate Change, Money Talks
There are no scenarios in which climate change extinguishes the entirety of human life. The planet may warm by 5 degrees C (9 degrees F), and, though the amount of human suffering will be beyond our capacity to imagine, those …
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Rajendra Pachauri, 79, Dies; Led Nobel-Winning Climate Agency
It is with great sadness that I note the passing of Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, who, for 13 years, chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization widely recognized for its work on global warming. A colleague said that …
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Paleoclimatology
In response to the meme here, reader Alex notes: We weren’t here 3 million years ago! How do you measure that? I can see that you’re being snide, suggesting that scientists are simply inventing data to prove whatever they want.
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