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 …
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Elon Musk Puts It Kindly
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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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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 …
“Educating” People on Climate Change
I’m fairly certain that the meme on the left here was not written as a joke, but I sure got a chuckle out of it. Unless you’re in third grade, your friends are already quite familiar with the concept of …
U.S. Supreme Court: Climate Change Litigation May Proceed
More than two dozen multinational energy companies tried to block a move that sought to hold them accountable for their role in changing the earth’s climate, but last week, the Supreme Court rejected their request. Does that mean such litigation …
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Global Warming Means More Disease
Climate change will affect many dozens of aspects on life here on Earth, and actually, a few (a slim minority) of those effects will be positive, e.g., longer growing seasons in places like Canada and Russia.
Trump Confirms U.S. Will Withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement
I met a couple from Australia the other day who remarked how mean-spirited all this is. The husband said, “The countries of the world work like dogs, for years, to get to the Paris Agreement; sure it’s imperfect, but it’s …
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Knowingly Destroying the Planet? Boys Will Be Boys. Cheating Investors? Oooh, That’s Bad.
From The Wall Street Journal: Exxon Mobil Corp. and New York’s attorney general are headed for a showdown this week over accusations the company deceived investors, a rare trial over how the oil industry accounts for the impact of climate …
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