As you watch this time-lapse video of the melting of the arctic sea ice, keep in mind that the thickness of the ice is decreasing as well. That, of course, is not obvious from what you’re able to see, which …
Category: Climate Change
Melting of the Arctic Sea Ice
Tagged with: Fox News, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, melting of the Arctic sea ice, rising sea levels
Coal v. Wind
It’s now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant running. One might think that this would be an “irresistible force.”
Tagged with: Coal v. Wind
21st Century Boom Industries
As we’ve often discussed here, cleantech is destined to be the defining industry of the 21st Century, not because of the wailing of environmentalists, but because of brute necessity.
Crude Prices Are Down–What’s Up?
Given that macro-economics isn’t an exact science, there are many opinions on the causes and effects of the plummeting price of crude (down 6.6%) today. One, given on today’s edition of NPR’s “Marketplace,” is that the developed world has accepted …
Europe’s Fully On Board with Climate Change Mitigation
Here’s a short but wonderful video that presents what five large European cities are doing to reduce emissions, while improving the quality of their peoples’ lives. It’s hard to imagine what these folks think of the U.S. at this point.
Tagged with: climate change mitigation
Trump and Science
It’s said that “good laws need good science.” Thus the cause for alarm that the “Trump administration is breaking with 75 years of precedent by attempting to interfere in how science is practiced by the U.S. government, according to three …
Koch Industries Extremely Effective
A great number of ballot initiatives aimed at mitigating climate change went up in flames in the midterms on Tuesday, largely because voters were misled by a torrent of advertising. Here’s an article describing how the Koch brothers and other …
Mitigating Climate Change Requires Your Involvement
It’s not an unattainable wish to believe that someday, a responsible government acting in concert with the will of the people will take definitive actions to accelerate the transition to clean energy, perhaps via the Carbon Fee and Dividend that …
Mitigating Climate Change Requires Your Involvement Read More »
Justice in the “ExxonMobil Knew” Climate Change Case May Be Just Around the Corner
If you read this article, you’ll understand why this particular case against Exxon may succeed where the others haven’t. According to the 97-page complaint, Exxon kept two sets of books.
What’s Really Causing Global Warming?
Here’s a good article for Americans who believe that there exists a debate regarding the theory of anthropogenic global warming, written by Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
