My colleague, aeroponics expert Rafael Quezada, writes about the meme here, “In 2019, for the most part, the picture was bleak; but for all the overwhelmingly bad news, there were also some really powerful and momentous moments of action and …
Category: Climate Change
New York Times Op-Ed: Australia “Committing Climate Suicide”
Here’s an opinion piece on Australia’s struggles with climate-fueled eco-destruction from local novelist Richard Flanagan that begins: Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its …
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Australia’s Fires and Climate Change
Of all locations on the surface of the Earth, Australia is among the most vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, according to scientific reports. Moreover, the intensity of the current fire season validates scientists’ predictions: Australia’s bush fires will …
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Who Doesn’t Love New Zealand?
New Zealand is the fifth most admired country on Earth (the list goes: Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands). It’s hard not to love a nation that seems to do everything right when …
Sad Note: Founder of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Dead at 80
As I’ve mentioned, I’m one of more than 100,000 members of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, whose purpose is to promote its approach to putting a tax on carbon called “Carbon Fee and Dividend.” The organization was formed in 2007 by …
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Greenpeace Gets This One Wrong
It’s a shame when an organization that does so much good in the world says something so totally unfair. Greenpeace says Bloomberg’s environmental plans “have holes in them,” but report that he’s coming out soon with revisions to address those …
Debunking Nonscientific Theories on Climate Change
A reader explains his viewpoint on climate change: My view is fairly simple. While carbon emissions are something that we need to have common sense about, and pollution of the Ocean is definitely a serious concern, I do not believe …
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Carbon Dioxide Concentrations at a Three-Million-Year High
Turning this around will require the complete cooperation of every major government on the planet, as supported by the vast majority of Earth’s people. Think for a moment about the scope of that task. Perhaps the true gift of Christmas …
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Netherlands Supreme Court: People Have A Fundamental Right To Be Protected From Climate Change
Why are these Dutch girls so happy? In truth, they’re probably celebrating their victory in the women’s World Cup soccer championship this year, but it actually might have been their absolute delight with the landmark ruling that just came down …
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Scientists Call for Civil Disobedience To Drive Government Action in Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation
From Reuters in London: Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.” In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, …
