The map here was created from a composite of readings from satellites and marine vessels. From Science Magazine: The oceans’ great continent-wrapping currents, each one moving as much water as all the world’s rivers combined, can rightly be considered the …
Category: Climate Change
Climate Deniers Still Exist, and They Make Lots of Noise Wherever They Go
As suggested here, it’s still possible to find climate deniers with PhDs after their names. There aren’t many, but they still do exist. Patrick Moore, for instance, was interviewed last year on Fox and Friends and said, “The whole climate …
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Why Are Republicans the Only Climate-Science-Denying Party in the World?
I wrote a post last week in attempt to answer this question, in which I suggested that it’s simple supply and demand. Anywhere there is a demand for contra-scientific thinking, there will be charlatans popping up like mushrooms to supply …
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From Guest Blogger Jenna Tsui: About Australia’s Wildfires and How You Can Help
Australia is facing one of the worst fire seasons that it’s ever seen. While heavy rains have started to fall, bringing some respite to exhausted firefighters and frightened citizens, these blazes have torn through more than 10 million hectares, taking …
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Why Are Republicans the Only Climate-Science-Denying Party in the World? Maybe It’s Simple Supply and Demand.
From this article written in 2015: On Tuesday, Jeb Bush proposed to eliminate the Obama administration’s regulation of carbon pollution, and, in keeping with his self-styled goal of “growth at all cost,” proposes to make any further climate regulation essentially impossible.
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Is Science Always Correct?
No, it’s almost the precise opposite. Geneticist David Suzuki reminds us that, in science, most of our ideas will ultimately prove to be incorrect. As sobering a thought as that may be, however, we need to consider where we’d be …
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The Limitless Themes of Climate Change Disinformation Campaigns
The climate isn’t changing? The climate is always changing? A while ago scientists were predicting an ice age? There’s still snow? The science isn’t clear?
Tagged with: A while ago scientists were predicting an ice age, Carbon dioxide is planet food and increased CO2 levels are making the planet greener?, Climate Change Disinformation Campaigns, Climate mitigation is a job killer, Climate mitigation is anti-capitalist, Dissenting voices on climate changes are censored, good disinformation campaign, Libtards hate America, Only God can destroy the Earth, Scientists are corrupt, Scientists are liberals, sea-levels aren't rising, Teenage girls have no right to tell us what to do until they have PhDs in economics, The Chinese are behind it, The climate isn't changing, the climate is always changing, The Hollywood elites want to weaken America, the ice sheets aren't shrinking, The science isn't clear, The sky is falling, The sun's getting hotter, The U.S. President says it's a hoax, There's still snow
The Trillion Tree Campaign
A few points on the trillion tree initiative: • This is an irrefutably good idea, as trees absorb CO2 and convert it to both above- and below-ground tissue that remains sequestered, at least until the end of their lives.
Tagged with: environmental sustainability, meteoric rise in greenhouse gas emissions, trees absorb CO2 and convert it to both above- and below-ground tissue that remains sequestered, trillion tree initiative, Trump's utter disdain for environmental responsibility, widespread destruction of the Amazon rainforest
Economic Losses from Climate-Fueled Disasters in the Last Decade: $3 Trillion
The economic losses from 2010 -2019, according to Aon’s Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2019 Annual Report (pdf), hit nearly $3 trillion. That’s up from 1.8 trillion recorded between 2000 and 2009.
Climate Change Poses Real Threats
I had to laugh when I saw this. I love PBS and I understand the horrors that climate change poses, but …. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet threatens to plunge our coastal cities under water, and we’re talking …
