I wrote a post yesterday called Trump Administration Continues Its Assault on Climate Science in which I discussed Science Magazine’s article “Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts.” In brief, NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10-million-a-year …
Category: Climate Change
Why Should the U.S. Invest in Global Warming Mitigation, When Its Leadership Is Composed of Climate Deniers?
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy and Climate Change Mitigation. Today’s Topic: How Effectively Are We Phasing Out Fossil Fuels?
Question: How many oil and gas projects are slated for development in the next five years in Europe alone? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Air Pollution and Climate Change
Here’s a cruel piece of irony: air pollution is actually helping to cool the planet, as it reflects some of the sun’s energy back into space; as we become more strict on pollution, we’ll have to work extra hard on …
Dubious Defense Strategy Pervades 2018 Criminal Procedings: The Investigation Against Me Must Stop
Coincidentally, two of today’s most powerful entities, Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, and ExxonMobil, the planet’s largest oil company, have something extremely important in common: they’re both desperately trying to make the legal processes (that are steadily …
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Climate Gentrification: Why Environmentalism and Social Justice Are Two Sides…..
Many people wonder why some rich people can have such remarkably callous disregard for the well-being of the planet, given that everyone, rich and poor, will suffer from the effects of climate change, air pollution, ocean acidification, loss of biodiveristy, …
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A New Wrinkle in the Climate Change Discussion
For some reason, Republican Pa. Sen. Scott Wagner (pictured), in the midst of a run for governor, felt compelled to explain climate change to an audience: “I haven’t been in a science class in a long time, but the earth moves …
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In a Court of Law, No Challenge To the Basic Science that Human Activity Is Causing Climate Change
As previously discussed, the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in Northern California are starting to incur enormous costs associated with rising sea levels, as well as severe storms and droughts that last many years and result in horrific wildfires …
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What’s The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Fight Global Warming?
I guess I might have said, “Eat less meat,” or “Drive a fuel-efficient car.” Yet the author of this article makes an excellent point: Talk about it. Just because our American culture doesn’t make a big deal of out global …
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Why Climate Change Mitigation Is Such an Intractable Problem
Here’s my response to the Facebook post at the right: It’s as if climate change were a problem tailor-made to confound our society. Mitigating it requires cooperation at every level (from interpersonal to international), personal sacrifice on behalf of others, …
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The End of Climate Denial?
We learned last year that mayors of coastal cities San Francisco and Oakland, CA are suing the oil companies for lying about their role in causing climate change, and the resultant rise in sea levels that are forcing their cities …
