Question: What is the single most effective step to lowering one’s carbon footprint and tackling climate change? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is huge, but wow; who makes this decision on such a basis?
Category: Climate Change
Climate Change Models…and Beyond
For those keeping track of the latest thinking among climate scientists, I offer this piece from last month’s Science Magazine: “New Climate Models Forecast a Warming Surge.” The next IPCC report on the subject is due in 2021, but, interestingly, will …
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Climate Change Graphic
If you’re as big a sucker for cool graphics depicting the increase of global temperatures as I am, you’ll like this.
What If We Covered the Climate Emergency Like We Did World War II?
I hope you’ll take a bit over two minutes and watch the video below, featuring Bill Moyers discussing what is perhaps the most vexing challenge facing journalism today. He asks, “(With respect to climate change), can we get this story …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Big Oil and Climate Change
Question: How much does the oil industry spend annually on lobbying in an effort to impede the passing of laws that would mitigate climate change? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Business and Climate Change
It’s no secret that, in this strange passage of American history, the right wing of the United States has a huge issue with climate change. Where 75% of Democrats believe that we’re already experiencing the effects of climate change, only 41% …
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Biden’s Climate Plan Is a Catastrophe, Both for the Environment and for Biden Himself
There are two main things to be said about Joe Biden: 1) He’s not a sociopath; he’s a sane and decent person. 2) He’s the textbook case of “middle-of-the-road.”
Climate Change and Wildfires
Of the numerous vicious cycles associated with climate change, perhaps the obvious is the change in albedo, i.e., the degree to which the Earth’s surface reflects the sun’s radiant energy back into space, vs. absorbing it into our atmosphere and …
Climate Change Represents Near-Term Profits Galore
This April, after a month of record temperatures in the Bering Sea, ocean ice in the Arctic is at an all-time record low for the date, crushing the record set … last April. Alarming? Not if you’re U.S. Secretary of …
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ExxonMobil’s Shareholders Revolt Over Handling of Climate Change
It’s common knowledge that numerous justice agencies, as well as the portion of the general public that stays abreast of these matters, is not at all happy with ExxonMobil. In particular, we have litigation coming down on the oil giant …
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