Here’s an extremely powerful and well-made five-minute-long video that gets to the very core of the “debate” surrounding climate change; it explains precisely why there is essentially zero legislation that would serve to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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Cartoon on Climate Change
Those looking for a bit of amusement may enjoy this cartoon on climate change — though it’s so true, it’s hard to laugh. I love this guy’s references to the Koch Brothers, restricting the activities of NOAA, and sea level …
ExxonMobil To Shareholders: Climate Change Is Real, and It’s Threatening
I had to laugh when I read this. Yes, ExxonMobil is acknowledging the fact of climate change. But from the headline, I inferred that the fossil fuel giant had come to terms with the fact that its products are ruining …
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Coal Industry Busted for Lying to our School Children
Here’s a story with a happy ending. Apparently, the educational arm of the U.S. coal industry, the American Coal Foundation, hired schoolbook publisher “Scholastic” to create classroom lessons on energy. Not surprisingly, the material on coal discussed its many “advantages,” …
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Will Clean Energy Come Through Policy or Technology?
One of the great questions concerning the migration to renewable energy is as follows: Will it come from policy, i.e., government’s creating a level playing field, perhaps with a carbon tax—or will it come from technology, i.e., waiting for the …
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Science Doesn’t Have All the Answers, But It’s Still the Best Foundation for Decision-Making
Our society needs a greater reverence for science, especially at this important point in the evolution of humankind, where we’ve come face-to-face with all manner of existential threats: climate change, ocean acidification, nuclear proliferation, loss of biodiversity, the end of …
Two Bad Ideas in the Last Ten Minutes
Within ten minutes of one another, I: 1) Got a call from someone with a perpetual motion machine that involves the movement of buoyant objects in water (I see at least two of these per year), and 2) Encountered this …
International Panel on Climate Change Has a Tough Job
I just did a phone interview for a young lady writing a paper for a course she’s taking in college, which reminded me of how passionate the youth of today is about climate change and the environment more generally. She …
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From Guest Blogger Kimberly Grimms: The True Cost of Climate Change To World Resources
During the last hundred years, the world has transformed into a new climatical era – where temperatures have exceeded global averages for 36 consecutive years. We live in a world of more than 7 billion people, where carbon dioxide emissions …
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Global Warming – Looking at the Oceans As Well As the Atmosphere
Here’s a good article on climate change, exploring the supposed hiatus in the rise in atmospheric temperatures, and discussing the role the ocean is playing in absorbing heat.
