Yes, people of conscience are nauseated by the Unites States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and our using the 23rd U.N. Climate Convention as a venue to promote the continued and expanded use of fossil fuels.
Category: Climate Change
Climate Change Poses a Broad Range of Threats to Investors
Here’s a podcast from Yale University pointing out how climate change poses risks to investors. Apparently, this is one of an ongoing series, which makes sense, given that there literally hundreds of ways in which investors are impacted by global …
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U.S. To Promote Fossil Fuel Consumption at Global Warming Conference
The U.S. has dumped more carbon into the atmosphere than any other on the globe…but we’re not content merely to be the only one on Earth not participating in the Paris Accord on climate change. For us, just jumping off …
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From Guest Blogger Eileen O’Shanassay: How Climate Change Has Affected Flooding in the US
Climate change is impacting the rate of storms, flooding, and other natural disasters in the United States and many other areas of the world. There has been an increase in extreme weather events over the last fifty years and scientists …
Climate-Proofing Our Cities
The 20-teens have seen the onset of a trend that will be with the developed world for a very long time to come: building infrastructure that protects our cities from the escalating ravages of climate change, as discussed in this …
You and Me and 403.3
As we learned yesterday, the concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere made a big leap from 2015 and 2016, hitting 403.3 ppm (up 3.3 from the previous year), for the first time in the last 800,000 years, according to …
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Climate Change Hasn’t Ruined Your Life…Yet
When we examine phenomena like the Northern California wildfires and realize that tragedies like these are happening at a pace four times they were of half a century ago, we’re faced with some important decisions that are purely about right …
Quantifying the Cost of Climate Change Sounds Important, But It’s Not Possible
We all can expect to see a steady increase in reports like this, i.e., attempts to quantify the costs of climate change; this one from the U.S. GAO (Government Accountability Office) points to the $350 billion that was lost over …
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What Exactly Is Censorship, And Why Should We Care?
What are the limits of free speech, as protected by the First Amendment? This is a touchy subject, especially today, with the White Supremacists demanding (and receiving) speaking platforms at our universities. Where does a civilized society draw the line?
George Will on Climate Change
A friend writes: Back on July 31, 2015 you posted about “Even the Elites Can’t Escape the Global Community, Living As It Does on One Small Planet.” You mentioned going to your next college reunion in June 2017.
