Few Americans understand the horrific impact that climate-fueled wild fires are having on the air quality in Australia. It’s hard to read the piece linked above and not taste the ash and see the pink sun that the author describes …
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Climate Change and Pacific Cod
Global warming affects everyone of us. Now I learn that pacific cod, my go-to fish for ceviche (recipe here), has gone up in price. Kidding, of course. Here’s the serious side of this, from Alaska Public Radio:
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Emissions: Collision Course with Disaster
Global emissions continue to rise. What happens when the United States doesn’t care and countries like India can’t afford to take action? Perhaps the answer lies in the cartoon below.
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Victoria Falls Faces Drought of Epic Proportion
Here is a photo comparing the historically mighty Victoria Falls, on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia, to what it looks like today due to the worst drought in 100 years. If it doesn’t speak for itself, there are no …
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Latest in the “Exxon Knew” Saga
A few years ago, we discovered that Big Oil knew that its product would cause catastrophic global warming as early as the late 1970s, that it had initially sought to morph their business models according, but the time the 1990s …
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How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
From Grist.org: The infamous Koch brothers have bankrolled climate deniers, propped up polluting industries, and even tried to turn the black community pro-fossil fuel. But, as a recent New York Times story shows, the billionaire conservatives have been steadily exerting pressure against public …
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Projected Sea-Level Rise
As mentioned previously, one of my best friends from college is the mayor of Broward County in Southern Florida. Below is part of a presentation he made recently on sea-level rise. Obviously, there is plenty of time to adapt, e.g., …
Global Tipping Point
From CNN: “A global tipping point is a threshold when the planet’s systems go beyond the point of no return — such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest, accelerated melting of ice sheets, and thawing of permafrost — the …
Superstorms in Europe
We’ve all wondered how the U.S. news media selects the stories it wishes to pick up and run with. The most obvious answer is that news is simply a form of for-profit entertainment, and there must be some decision-making apparatus …
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Climate Change Mitigation
As this cartoon reminds us, all the actions we are (or should be) taking to mitigate the effects of climate change have benefits that transcend their main intended purpose. Global warming is anything but a hoax.
