Apparently, Al Gore lives large, and lugs with him a huge personal carbon footprint wherever he goes; we’ve been hearing about this more or less constantly since his 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” became a considerable box-office success. In fact, …
Category: Climate Change
The Anti-Science Mindset and Climate Denial
Here’s an article that speculates on the psychology of climate denial, i.e., the mental processes that enable people to disbelieve the science on this subject. A few thoughts as you read through this:
IBM Means Business, Addresses Climate Change with a Wealth of Technologies
Here’s a cool advertisement from IBM (former client of mine) that leads with the existential threat of climate change and closes with the corporate icon’s set of solutions–some of which date back decades. The Fortune 50 really understand what climate …
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Studying the Rate of Ice Loss in Antarctica
For all you geologists who study the macro-effects of climate change, here’s a recent article from Science Magazine on the loss of ice in Western Antarctica.
From Guest Blogger Ian Craft: Could Water Pumps “Refreeze” The Arctic?
Whether you keep abreast of global issues or not, chances are you will be aware of global warming and the threat that it poses to our planet. Polar ice caps are rapidly melting due to steadily increasing global temperatures, and …
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How Much Do We Care About the Costs of Climate Change?
Here’s a scholarly article published a few days ago in Science Magazine on the cost of climate change, whose authors, from the Stanford School of Public Policy and the Nicholas Institute at Duke University, have taken into account a great …
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From Guest Blogger Bobbi Peterson: The Relationship Between Climate Change and Natural Disasters
No question or debate exists about whether the planet’s global climate is warming, it simply is. Meteorological data shows that quite clearly. Some people may argue the cause of it, but no matter who or what is causing climate change, …
Was the Concept of Climate Change Formed to Weaken Our Economy and Control the World Population?
Harrasser-in-Chief MarcoPolo writes: (Here’s) a quote from a speech by Marian L. Tupy Editor of Human Progress: “Since the fall of communism, global warming has been, without question, the most potent weapon in the hands of those who wish to control …
Climate Change Poses Grave Threats, Offers Enormous Opportunities
My old friend Steve Vachss makes the following remarks (below) on climate change, and, in particular, the recent publication from ThinkProgress: “2017 is so unexpectedly warm it is freaking out climate scientists.” Given that his conclusion (that renewable energy is …
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Climate Scientists Freaked Out By Extreme Temperatures in 2017
2014 was the hottest year on record. Until 2015. That record stood…until 2016. And 2017 is headed to be (far) hotter still? That’s unexpected? What precisely were we expecting? At this point, is there an objective** observer with the brains …
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