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 …
Category: Climate Change
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 …
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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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Antarctic Warming Trend “Like Nothing We Have Ever Seen”
It’s a sunny 66°F at 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” right now, here in Santa Barbara County, CA, which is about average for this time of year. Not so in the Antarctic, where a research station recorded a new record-high temperature for the …
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Climate Change Basics
Reader Mark Sudia asks, “Are you aware that CO2 is Carbon Dioxide, which when absorbed by the plants causes them to produce the Air we breathe? So what do you think would happen if most of the CO2 was (sic) removed …
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Boris Johnson: “UK Has a Duty To Lead the Fight Against Climate Change”
Strange news seems to be limitless in supply. From this article: The UK’s phase-out date of unabated coal power is to be brought forward by one year to 2024, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced today as he officially kicked off …
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Antarctica Hits Record High 65 Degrees
As we know, average temperatures around the globe are rising, but some spots are warming much faster than others. From the Washington Post: Just days after the earth saw its warmest January on record, Antarctica has broken its warmest temperature …
