If you happen to be within a train ride of Santa Barbara, you may want to join me this Thursday in checking out a talk by Katharine Hayhoe at Westmont College, an extremely high-end interdenominational Christian liberal arts college.
Category: Climate Change
Feedback Loop of Deep Concern
There are several different feedback loops that concern climate scientists. Perhaps the most obvious is the changes to Earth’s albedo, i.e., its capacity to reflect incoming solar radiation back into space. As the arctic ice melts into liquid water the …
Report Points To New Mechanism That Sequesters CO2
Here’s an article that shows how volcanic action and uplift exposes CO2 to basalt, thus trapping it internally as limestone nodules. I republish it here not to suggest that everyone needs to understand the exact geo-chemistry, but to remind us that climate science is still advancing.
Nine Questions about Climate Change You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask
Embarrassed to ask stupid questions about climate change? Don’t be. The only stupid question is the one you didn’t ask. Those looking for a comprehensive but extremely accessible presentation on the basics of global warming should check this out. Great …
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Climate Change Mitigation’s Fiercest Enemy: The Human Mind
Here’s a piece from the PBS News Hour, presenting the sad fact that the evolution of the human brain is the largest single contributor to our civilization’s sluggish reaction to the climate catastrophe that science assures us is headed our …
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People Don’t Like To Be Scared with Bullcrap
According to the honest people who have been to the southern border, there is no ” invasion.” It’s not an “infestation.” Trump’s tweet here is nothing other than an attempt to a) scare Trump’s supporters into continuing to back him, …
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New Report on Climate Change Looks at Heat Absorption in the Oceans
The validity of the theory of anthropogenic global warming is undeniable, though this doesn’t mean that scientists have an airtight grip on every aspect of what exactly is happening here on Planet Earth. Here’s a good example: a report that was …
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Climate Change and Morality
Here’s a scholarly article in The Economist that discusses the morality of climate change mitigation. Not surprisingly, it comes down to the question: What value do we place on the lives of other people, in particular, young people and the …
Reason for Optimism in the Shift to Low-Carbon Energy
As previously noted, our civilization has the technology to mitigate climate change and avert the catastrophe that’s coming our way if we don’t take action. The issue is scale; decarbonizing our energy and improving our land management will require political …
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Fighting To Protect Planet Earth
Here’s an article in which legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben likens the war on climate change to a world war in the military sense, and discusses the parallels between fighting Hitler and preventing climate catastrophe. The imperative to win WW2 was …
