From the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of the man who wrote the first memoir in Western literature: St. Augustine born in 354 in Thagaste, which is now in Algeria. He is best known for his Confessions, a 13-book autobiography of …
Category: Climate Change
Greta Thunberg and Climate Change Mitigation
A reader sent me this “open letter to Greta Thunberg”: “The apocalyptic world vision you hold has been a strip landing for those who have hated progress throughout history. Your apocalyptic predictions have been made for millennia, and, we’re still …
New Zealand Does the Right Thing–Again and Again
What did New Zealand do following two mosque shootings? It banned military-style semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. It didn’t ask permission of the NRA. It simply took immediate action to protect its people.
Everyone Can Plant a Tree & Help Fight Climate Change
As we get closer to the holiday season we start to think about our traditions. One we have in the Shields family is to buy a live Christmas tree and plant it after the first of the new year; every …
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Tagged with: fight climate change
Climate Change Denial and Dark Money
Those wondering how climate change denial became an integral part of the Republican party should check out the video below. There really has been a dramatic shift here; three decades ago, there were several bipartisan bills on the U.S. Senate …
Tagged with: 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision “Citizens United”, American for Prosperity, billions of dollars of campaign contributions from anonymous sources aimed at creating a climate denial orthodoxy within the Republican party, estimates of fossil fuel subsidies, fossil fuel industry funded dozens of front groups, International Monetary Fund, opposition to climate action, phony science
Elon Musk Puts It Kindly
Musk’s statement at the left is putting it diplomatically, of course. In fact, this isn’t an “experiment” to see if the oil companies are wrong; it’s an exercise in power, greed, and evil. Big Oil’s four-decade-long disinformation campaign was effective …
Tagged with: Big Oil's four-decade-long disinformation campaign, clean energy and transportation would be overwhelmingly less expensive and would replacement fossil fuels at light speed, climate change is in the process of ruining this planet, Elon Musk, internalize the costs of the vast environmental damage, oil companies exercise in power greed evil, scientific literacy
Backing Out of the Paris Climate Accord Is Terrible, But We’ll Get Through It
Try as we might, there is no getting around the fact that the United States is a pariah in the world, having become the only one of 188 sovereign countries on the planet that is refusing to work in concert …
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Financial Times: Climate Crisis Carries Unknown Cost
The notoriously level-headed Financial Times, an international broadsheet daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news, writes as follows about the ramifications of climate change, based partially on last summer’s heat wave in Europe: Hot enough for …
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Sea-Level Rise Now Projected To Be More Intense Than Previously Imagined
Those with a solid background in science, one far deeper than my own, may be able to wade through a new study published by the journal Nature Communications, in which scientists affiliated with the organization Climate Central and Princeton University explain how …
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Tagged with: Climate Central, increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, melting of the ice sheets of Greenland and the Antarctic, Nature Communications, Princeton University, propping up the fossil fuel industry, seal-level rise is now believed to pose a far greater threat to humankind than was previously recognized, thermal expansion of ocean waters, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord
Planting Trees Cost-Effectively
Each year, about 15 million acres of forest is turned into wood products, a total of more than 300 million since the 1990s. That’s about twice the area of Texas. The current cost of replanting this enormous area is about …
