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 …
Category: Climate Change
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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Could Climate Change Be a Randomly Occurring Event?
As noted on the Windfuels website, “no year (from 1880 when records began) before 1973 was hotter than 1973. Every year since 1978 was hotter than 1978.”
Taking Climate Change Into Consideration
From the Associated Press: A judge blocked oil and gas drilling across almost 500 square miles in Wyoming and said the U.S. government must consider climate change impacts more broadly as it leases huge swaths of public land for energy …
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Is Fisker For Real?
From Motor Trend: FISKER PROMISES SUB-$40K ALL-ELECTRIC SUV FOR 2021 I’m not saying this won’t happen, but I am saying that, if it does, it will be the first promise that Fisker has kept in the 11 years I’ve been …
Climate Change and National Security
What are the possible ramifications of hundreds of millions of climate refugees, desperate to find dry, arable land? Does that sound like it might constitute a threat to U.S. national security? If you said “no,” you just might have what …
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Land Management and Climate Change
When a friend reminded me of ecologist Allan Savory’s Ted Talk (below) it occurred to me how few people are talking about desertification and what our civilization should be doing about it.
United Nations on Climate Change
While maintaining global temperatures within 1.5 ° C of pre-industrial conditions is imperative to halting a runaway train that will destroy our planet’s capacity to support organized civilization, our practical capacity to accomplish this goal is very much a matter of …
