Many of us complain bitterly about the U.S. government’s lethargy re: mitigating climate disruption and embracing clean energy solutions. Yet we live with frequent reminders of how much worse it could be. Take the Land Down Under, for instance. Pictured below …
Sluggish Response To Environmental Issues? Could Be a Great Deal Worse Read More »
One calculates the rate of species extinctions the same way we measure mortality in a certain population. We want the number of deaths per thousand individuals per year, so we take the total number of deaths in a given year, …
Species Extinctions Rates At An All-Time High, But…. Read More »
IMO, John Oliver doesn’t get enough coverage of his terrifically insightful and hilariously funny commentary on life in the 21st Century. Here’s a four-minute-long excerpt from his recent piece on climate change, including this exchange: Newscaster: According to a recent poll, …
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa produced the loudest sound ever known. It could be heard 3000 miles away and it reverberated around the globe 7 times before diminishing. Pictured here is the relatively tiny eruption of the same volcano in …
There are 4339 posts on this blog, and not a single one mentions Hillary Clinton; it’s time to rectify that. Is she an insincere politician? Obviously. But that doesn’t mean she’s off-base when it comes to climate change and the …
According to the Writer’s Almanac: It was on this day in 1837 that Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a speech titled “The American Scholar” to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University. The speech was the first time he explained …
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Here’s an eight-minute video called “Carbon” which summarizes nicely where our civilization finds itself vis-à-vis a sustainable use of energy, climate change, the oil companies, political corruption, etc. Very well done, IMO.
According to a report published yesterday, scientists may have found the answer to the unpredicted slowing in the warming of global air temperatures. They had suspected that the heat was somehow winding up in the oceans, and it appears they …
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Those of us who think about climate change often imagine ourselves in this scenario: we live long enough to experience some extremely severe effects of global warming, perhaps a rise in sea levels that has forced whole populations to abandon …
I can’t say enough about the people who work in entry-level positions at the iconic ad agency Ogilvy and Mather. They work hard, they’re fabulously bright, and they’re profoundly respectful. One in particular (whom I won’t identify) and I have …
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