What makes Trump so good at his game is that, like a master magician, he knows how to keep the audience focused precisely where they’ll be unable to see what’s really going on. Look what’s happened in the past few …
Tag: climate change mitigation
In the Constellation of World Problems, How Important Is Climate Change Mitigation?
2GreenEnergy megasupporter Cameron sent me this piece, explaining why climate change is the most important story in the world today. Before the election of Donald Trump I certainly would have agreed, but now I’m not as certain.
Be Inconvenient; Speak Power to Truth
I hope you’ll check out the trailer (below) to the upcoming movie on climate change mitigation and environmental stewardship more generally. If nothing else, Gore’s right that this is an incredibly exciting and important time to be alive. Think about …
The Soon-To-Be-Overturned Clean Power Act
Those living outside the U.S. may be a bit flummoxed by America’s posture on climate change mitigation, and, in particular, overturning one of the previous administration’s signature achievements, the Clean Power Act that would shutter the dirtiest of our coal-fired …
Do Climate Scientists Work at the Behest of Politics and Popular Opinion?
Predictably, the world of climate change mitigation has taken on a frightening new dimension. The Trump administration has announced that it will be taking aim at “politicized science,” the oft-spoken but never documented concept that tens of thousands of the …
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Climate Leadership: China Rises, U.S. Falls
Scientific American celebrates its 170th anniversary this year; it’s the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States. And just think of what science was like in the 1840s: long before the advent of germ theory, modern physics, even the …
The Ideology of Environmentalism
Apparently, some readers freak out at the concept of an ideology’s driving climate change mitigation and other actions to promote environmental sustainability. One writes: (Someone) starts with an hypothesis formulated from an ideological/political/philosophic agenda….. Unfortunately, this sort of debate has …
Global Attack on Climate Change a Real Possibility
To the surprise and delight of many, the U.S. and China have formally joined the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation. This is fairly astonishing, given the cool reception with which the U.S. Congress received the idea of signing up …
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NextGen Climate
Today is the 84th anniversary of the discovery of antimatter, i.e., particles that are the opposite of matter which we experience in our daily lives, and that mutually annihilate when brought into contact with it. Of course, we use the term …
People of All Ages Care about Environmental Responsibility
Fortunately for the outcome of our civilization, millennials have a far more progressive attitude than their parents and grandparents when it comes to environmental stewardship, climate change mitigation, and so forth. Some believe that this is a natural consequence of …
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