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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Latest in the “Exxon Knew” Saga
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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.
Confronting Tidal Flooding in Southern Florida
As I’ve mentioned, one of my best friends from college, Beam Furr, has spent his career in local politics and is currently mayor of Broward County, FL, which, for better or worse, contains the coastal city of Hollywood. Why “for …
Pro-Trump Evangelical: Sin, Not Carbon Dioxide, Is What’s Driving Climate Change
While this may not sound perfectly scientific, I don’t have a problem using the word “sin” to describe what’s driving climate change. In fact, if I were a religious person, I don’t think I could find a better term to …
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Oxford Dictionaries Declare ‘Climate Emergency’ the Word of 2019
You’ll travel a long way to meet someone who knows more about the business and science of energy than my colleague Stephen Lacey, contributing editor with Greentech Media. This morning he tweeted: “Usage of the term ‘climate-emergency’ increased 100-fold in …
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Iowa Devastated by Climate Change, Demands Governmental Action
Iowa is the first state to weigh in on the U.S. presidential primaries, so it’s important to get a read for the issues that matter there. Insofar as the state is landlocked and heavily dependent on farming, one might guess …
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