Last January, if you had asked the people of Seattle to forecast their air quality in late August, very few would have predicted what you see at the bottom of these three photographs, i.e., the equivalent of smoking seven cigarettes …
Category: Climate Change
Climate Change Mitigation Means Compassion, and That’s a Problem
Will our civilization here on Earth meet its emissions targets, agreed to by 179 countries (notably excluding the U.S.) as required to limit the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees C? While no one has a crystal ball, let’s face …
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Issues with Melting Permafrost
There are two issues associated with the melting permafrost in the arctic, and, at this point it’s hard to know which will be the deadlier.
Tagged with: accelerate global warming, arctic heatwave, CH4 is a greenhouse gas approximately 30 times more potent than CO2, leave fossil fuels in the ground and invest, melting permafrost in the arctic, methane that had been frozen for millions of years is being released into the atmosphere, reforestation, release of disease causing bacteria and viruses
NPR’s Terry Gross and Guest: 2018 Revealed Just How Ill-Prepared We Are For Climate Change
As material for my books and videos, and just for my own edification, I’ve conducted approximately 200 interviews with subject matter experts in my days here at 2GreenEnergy. Of course, it’s important to go into each one with a certain …
Looking for the Looniest Person in U.S. Politics? Can’t Count Out Paul LePage
By any standard, Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, is a mean-spirited nutjob; the more you read about him the more clear this becomes.
Climate Change Disinformation
It would be easy to think that the fossil fuel industry’s aggressive disinformation campaign, attempting to discredit the theory of anthropogenic global warming, was abandoned years ago, and that the overwhelming body of evidence in support of the theory has …
Climate Change Could Produce “Hothouse Earth”: It’s Not Like We Haven’t Been Warned
Because I’m not a member of the National Academy of Sciences, I would have to pay to download the entirety of their latest report, “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene,” which suggests that the effects of climate change …
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Understanding the Extent of Climate Change
Here’s a great piece of animation on climate change for people whose learning styles favor graphics. Scientific American has done a great job with this subject for many years. As you watch, keep in mind that the U.S. is vigorously …
It Doesn’t Matter What You Believe About Climate Change
Here’s a thought that I have regularly, looking through my Facebook feed and reading the rants of climate change deniers.
Tagged with: Climate Change
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Fossil Fuels Industry and Climate Change
Questions: How much has the fossil fuel industry spent to avoid dealing with climate change since the year 2000? What is the ratio of what they’ve spent on lobbyists vs. all environmental groups combined?
