Technology alone isn’t going to save humanity from the effects of climate change. Headlines claiming otherwise might make for great slices of clickbait, but they aren’t being entirely truthful. While new technological innovations this year like increasingly affordable solar panels …
Tag: Climate Change
Are There Areas In Which Scientists Simply Can’t Be Trusted?
Astronomers have discovered over 2000 exoplanets, some of which have a startling resemblance to our Earth. Cancer patients are twice as likely to survive for a decade or more than they were 40 years ago. Today, your cell phone has more computing power in …
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From Guest Blogger Ian Craft: Could Water Pumps “Refreeze” The Arctic?
Whether you keep abreast of global issues or not, chances are you will be aware of global warming and the threat that it poses to our planet. Polar ice caps are rapidly melting due to steadily increasing global temperatures, and …
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From Guest Blogger Bobbi Peterson: The Relationship Between Climate Change and Natural Disasters
No question or debate exists about whether the planet’s global climate is warming, it simply is. Meteorological data shows that quite clearly. Some people may argue the cause of it, but no matter who or what is causing climate change, …
Can Trump Turn This Around?
There’s a meme going around Facebook that suggests that Trump’s record-setting low approval rating could be ameliorated if he’d stop acting like a crazy person. This is 100% true. Think for a second: What would you or I do in …
Live from Hartford, CT
Craig Shields, reporting from Hartford, CT, the home of Trinity College, where the class of 1977 is celebrating its 40th reunion. Thrilled to be here. The attendance at events like this is self-selecting; those who aren’t able to have a …
Solar Activity and Climate Change
An old friend (possibly an old ex-friend, if he reads this) who works as a building contractor forwarded this gem, an article suggesting that solar (as opposed to human) activity is the cause of global warming. Of course, this has …
Climate Change Poses a Threat To Our Civilization’s Protection Against Climate Change
I’m sure most readers are aware of the stronghold called the Global Seed Vault, built about a decade ago and maintained with international cooperation in the arctic permafrost to enable humankind to regrow about one million species and cultivars of …
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Burning Coal Is Choking Our Planet and Its People, But Strangely, That’s OK
Here’s something that will put a smile on a few faces, i.e., those investors whose meager integrity and broken moral compass enables them to support coal as an energy source. According to Energy Matters: Nearly all publicly traded US coal …
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More on Melting Glaciers
In response to my post on the disappearing glaciers in the eponymous national park, family friend Shawn Price (pictured with his adorable daughter Annie) writes: It does seem odd that a glacier that has been around for 10,000 years suddenly …
