At left is a good topic for a lively discussion. Two comments: 1) One presumes we’re talking about Americans here, even though our population is about 4% of the Earth’s total. At this point in the U.S. decline into some …
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The modern-day Republican party is doing everything in its power to remove regulations that are aimed at protecting the environment, and right now, they’re having a field day, due to our nation’s rejection of science. But what happens when the …
Earlier today, I caught a radio show on geoengineering, at the conclusion of which the host solicited listeners’ thoughts of the subject. Here are a few of mine: There are six completely different approaches to geoengineering, each of which has …
There are many Americans who reject science of all types, and climate science in particular. So, even though storms and wildfires are becoming more frequent and deadly, these folks stand behind Trump’s eliminating the parts of the U.S. government that …
Of course the Trump administration will do anything in its power to bury the discussion about climate change and its terrible costs. But in the case of the shut-down of NOAA, we’re talking about the hard, direct costs like rebuilding …
It appears that the new pope has the same humanitarian ambitions as the one we just lost, and environmental stewardship is a significant part of that. Good news, to be sure. Of course, how this will translate into action is …
News flash: human civilization has precisely zero plans, be they short-term or long-term, for future generations. Now, this may not be the case for the “savages” like the native Americans, whose leaders make decisions whose effects take into account the …
It’s not just the poor, sick, and elderly who suffer, and whose lives will continue to get worse, to that group, we need to add those who count on: Public education, labor laws, food safety standards, air traffic control, social …
Using individual extreme weather events as evidence of climate change is not a scientifically accurate thing to do, but this is a lot of tornadoes. Indiana averages 22 per year, and they are already at 44.
I had to laugh at this discussion on the video on sea-level rise and the post I just made: Reader A: Bull, it’s not global warming. It’s part of the ice age cycle. As the gulf stream is near it’s …
