Category: Climate Change

We’ve all seen Donald Trump’s tweets that use the snap of cold weather in the Eastern U.S. to ridicule the idea of global warming, and we’ve seen how this is immediately attacked as “ignorant.” 

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Who  doesn’t love a good “Top 10” list? Here’s a video that presents the 10 best ways to deal with climate change and other forms of environmental degradation. 

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In most cases in our human experiences, births are regarded as blessed events, as a bouncing baby boy or girl is brought into the world.

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A friend sent me this piece on a paper published in Nature suggesting that the effects of climate change could be far worse than most scientists predict. I respond:

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As we’ve discussed frequently here, the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is an extremely important, though infinitely complex and dynamic component in the environmental destruction caused by global warming.

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Here’s a wonderful article that lays out the history of climate change denial, while discussing the current state of affairs, i.e., how huge economic and political forces seek to obfuscate the truth.

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Here’s a video on climate change, featuring EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s remarks that it’s inappropriate to talk about the connection between climate change and natural disasters like hurricanes.  Pruitt, of course, is a climate denier.  The video concludes, “What do …

When It Comes To Climate Change, What Do You Believe? Read More »

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Donald Trump is dropping climate change from the list of threats to U.S. national security, a move bound to please his dwindling base of a) the rich and b) hateful people/morons. (Note to Trump supporters: If you’re not sure which …

Trump’s War on the Environment Is a Yawn Read More »

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This fabulous video presents the melting of the Arctic sea ice in a totally accessible way, while maintaining enough scientific rigor to leave no doubt as to its validity.

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What are the similarities between life on Earth today vs. 1500 years ago?  Thankfully, not too many.  The 6th Century CE saw the invention of backgammon and the first use of toilet paper, but outside of that, things we’re pretty barbaric. …

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Study Shows Bad News for Arctic Sea Ice Read More »

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