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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In a Court of Law, No Challenge To the Basic Science that Human Activity Is Causing Climate Change
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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 …
From Guest Blogger Delicia Warren: Finding the Motivation to Go Green
Never has a debate been more widespread and divisive than that of climate change. Not a day goes by that there isn’t something on the news related to it in some way or other.
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When the Stakes for Our Civilization Are High, The Pope Is Never Far Away
The March for Life and the debate over gun control is part of a much larger phenomenon that defines the zeitgeist of this phase in American history, which could be summed up as, “We Call BS.” People of conscience, young …
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Canadian MPs, Motivated By Climate Crisis, Arrested At Pipeline Blockade
It’s quite possible that the “March for Our Lives” protests of March 24th, 2018 will be remembered as a watershed even in world history, as marches were held in more than 800 cities in the U.S., as well on every continent …
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Climate Change Mitigation and the U.S. Justice System
If you were being tried in a criminal matter, you’d probably want your mother to be the judge hearing the case. Of course, the justice system would laugh your defense attorney out of the court room if he made such …
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Climate Change and the Battle for Your Mind
Imagine it’s January 1, 2015, and you’re given $65 million with the proviso that you must spend every nickel of it by the end of the year, solely to communicate a certain specific message to the world. What would that …
Yale Climate Connections Is a Fantastic Resource
I have a warm spot in my heart for Yale University, for their position as a rival of my alma mater (Trinity College) on the squash courts, as well as their involvement with one of my heroes in environmentalism, Rajendra …
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