My dear friend Terry Ribb writes: I thought this person, Shannan Guinn, might be a great interview for you. I am helping a young person with her application to the Presidential Scholarship Program. To prepare, I looked at past scholars, …
Category: Climate Change
Appointing Unqualified Cabinet Members To Destroy the Federal Government Is Appalling, But in This Case It’s Illegal As Well
A diverse array of more than 50 advocacy groups, including Friends of the Earth, ActionAid USA, the National Family Farm Coalition, Patagonia, and Sierra Club, delivered a letter to all 100 U.S. senators earlier today, demanding that they disapprove the …
What Do We Want? Justice. When Do We Want It? Now.
There are a great number of things in our world today that seem to be dragging along, though we sure do wish they would happen right now. One, of course, is Robert Mueller’s findings on the Trump administration’s alleged collusion …
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No One Knows Where Trump’s War on Science and the Environment Will End
As we have discussed previously, estimating the cost to the environment associated with the Trump administration is an impossible task. For one, it’s a moving target, in that it never stops–and it will never stop, for a great many years …
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Thought You’d Seen Every Conceivable Position on Climate Change and its Mitigation? Nope.
Here’s a radio interview that aired yesterday with British MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who appears likely to take over control of the Conservative Party from PM Theresa May. There are lots of wild things to be learned about this gentleman, but …
The Prospect of Mass Death from Global Warming Forces Us To Ask Important Questions About Who We Are
The 3500 deaths of heat that occurred in Pakistan and India in the summer of 2015 are a terrifying harbinger of what our world will be like by the end of the century if our civilization fails to take effective …
Looking Critically at Al Gore’s “Hypocrisy”
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, …
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.
