This discussion on the culpability of the oil companies in suppressing the truth about climate change is everything I hoped it would be. Check out the comments of Terry and Gina. Holy cats, that’s really brilliant and expressive writing.
Tag: Climate Change
Climate Change and Melting Ice
Those keeping track of the slowly unfolding demise of the Antarctic will be interested to know that the Scar Inlet is now predicted to shatter into small icebergs sometime close to the end of March, the end of a long, …
COP 21 Meetings: A Success By Any Reasonable Measure
There are plenty of people and groups disappointed by the outcome of the Paris COP 21 meetings, in particular, those who stand to suffer most immediately and intensely as a result of climate change, or of the abusive processes related …
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Making a Point about Climate Change and Its Deniers in a Way We Can All Appreciate
For some reason I’ve been running across a spate of humorous and terrifically well done pieces that make important points. Here’s one on climate change deniers that got me laughing so loudly that I’m sure the people outside my office here …
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Can One Discuss the Future of Mobility without Mentioning Climate Change? Apparently So.
As I write this I’m listening to a wonderful webinar on mobility, featuring presentations from Shell Oil and the market research giant Frost and Sullivan. There is a fantastically complex array of different forces that are rapidly transforming our world …
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Anthropogenic Climate Disruption
Frequent commenter Cameron Atwood writes: For those concerned about how messaging is communicated, I’d suggest that people need to replace the ambiguous and lukewarm phrases “climate change” and “global warming” with the far more accurate, evocative and impactful words “anthropogenic …
Climate Change: The Ultimate Disposition
Here’s an article, one of several similar pieces I see every day, that I offer to those whose viewpoint on climate change is both a) that its effects going forward are well understood, and b) that they won’t be as …
Our Understanding of Climate Change: A Weird History
Today, most of the literate world is aware of the challenge that our civilization faces with respect to “AGW” (anthropogenic global warming, aka climate change, aka climate disruption). For most of us, however, this realization has come fairly recently; public …
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Global Warming and the Drought in California
We Californians, living as we do in severe drought conditions, have a general sense that climate change is playing a role here. It’s not exactly rocket science that rising temperatures tend to evaporate more water, leaving less of it in …
Hard To Get Too Ruffled about Renewable Energy Nay-Sayers
A friend of mine just called to get my reaction about an editorial in the Sunday paper here in Santa Barbara, written by one Joe Armendariz (pictured left) of the local taxpayers association. I didn’t see the article, but from …
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