Per Smithsonian Magazine, abnormally high temperatures have already led to a wide array of ecological breakdowns, with a troubling future in front of us. While those indifferent to our civilization’s future regard this as no big deal, to the …
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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?
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 …
If you’re as big a sucker for cool graphics depicting the increase of global temperatures as I am, you’ll like this.
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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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.
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% …
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.”
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 …
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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