Category: Climate Change

The video below is one of many made by a brilliant young man, Derek Muller, under the name of his YouTube channel “Veritasium,” with its 5.9 million subscribers. 

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As the Arctic melts and huge glaciers break free there are bound to be a few wild moments. Imagine you live in this town, only to notice that a 300-foot hunk of ice is making its way past you, a …

The Lighter Side of Climate Change Read More »

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In Western culture, the concept of a “time capsule,” the tucking away of writing and artifacts to be opened at a later date, goes back at least to the 18th Century.

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When we think about climate change, we often consider the indirect effects of all that heat, creating things like droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, famines and the like, but we sometimes overlook the heat itself and its direct effect on the …

Effects of Global Warming Include…. Read More »

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Here’s another exercise for those who like to play with probability and statistics. In 139 years of record-keeping, this June was the warmest June ever recorded, but it also revealed something more troubling: each of the last five January through …

Climate Change and Probability Theory Read More »

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In this article, 87 Percent of Americans Unaware There’s Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, we see the result of surveys conducted by Yale and George Mason Universities.

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It’s common knowledge that planting trees (and stopping mass deforestation) is one of the most important tools in preventing environmental collapse. What most of us don’t know is that the Queen of England is perfectly comfortable wielding with the Royal …

Her Highness Moves Earth for a Good Purpose Read More »

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Here’s an excellent article describing some unanticipated consequences of climate change.  When I saw it, I commented: Humankind will never completely understand the dynamics associated with climate disasters, simply because weather is intrinsically chaotic.

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In preparation for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed Dr. V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institute in San Diego.  “Ram (pronounced “Rahm”), as he’s affectionately known, had been working on the science behind climate change since the …

How Climate Scientists Deal with Deep Frustration Read More »

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The car/boat shown here isn’t a bad investment for those in one of America’s areas prone to “sunny day flooding,” a term that is being used with increasing frequency as the oceans expand via rising temperatures, and the ice sheets in places …

Sunny Day Flooding Creates Market for New Vehicles Read More »

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