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.
Category: Climate Change
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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Measuring the Loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet
At a dinner party a few years ago, I happened to be seated next to a senior scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, in Pasadena, CA) who led a team of scientists that measures the declining thickness of the …
Things On Earth Are Changing Quickly
Most climate change deniers are the victims of deliberate disinformation campaigns that succeed in duping their victims with faulty information, like “scientists’ predictions have not been accurate.” This is simply incorrect; the predictions have, overall, been frighteningly accurate.
Another Climate Change “Gotcha”
As everyone knows, the history of humankind on this planet goes roughly like this:
Law-breaking in Today’s News
Today’s news contains two stories on the subject of law-breaking. The Extinction Rebellion is a recently formed movement that deploys nonviolent resistance to avert climate breakdown, halt biodiversity loss, and minimize the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.
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