Someone sent me the meme here and wrote: “A GOP strategist rebranded global warming as “climate change” because it sounds far, far less dangerous, problematic, severe, worrisome. The usual network of right-wing think tanks and media outlets immediately — as …
Tag: climate disruption
Consensus on Climate Disruption: What We Must Do
As mentioned, Cameron Atwood sent a series of political memes he created, including the one below on climate disruption. I wish there were a way to communicate this concept to everyone on Earth; it’s certainly one that I sneak in …
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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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Energy and the Environment at 50,000 Feet – Pardon the Cliché
If we do anything well here, it’s providing a platform on which to discuss the “big ideas” in energy and the environment. Sure, I feel confident that I’ve identified a few solid ideas on a fairly narrow set of clean …
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Climate Disruption – All Too Often, It’s Hard To See a Solution
Sometimes I’m optimistic about the outcome of the climate disruption issue, but other days it’s hard to maintain that sunny outlook. However you slice it, the French fellow quoted in this article is correct: developing countries cannot be denied the …
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Renewable Energy Internship Has Been of Interest to People All Over the World
When I think of Russian women, I think instantly of tennis. They certainly have a passel of them, and they seem to get better and stronger every year. Earlier today, a young lady from Russia inquired about our (unpaid, sorry) …
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Assessing the Value of Solar Energy
Here’s a really solid article summarizing the thinking we should apply when determining the worth of solar as a replacement for other forms of energy. There are two main things that are omitted here, and while I have to admit …
If You Want Some Good News in the Renewable Energy Arena, Look to Norway
Living here in the U.S., it’s easy to think that the rest of the world shares our state of delusion with respect to climate disruption, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and the many other environmental catastrophes that are unfolding all …
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Humankind’s Chances for a “Soft Landing” Re: the Environment
Here’s another piece of my conversation with a reader on the subject of government’s role vis-à-vis bringing about positive change re: the deteriorating conditions surrounding our environment: climate disruption, ocean acidification, increasing levels of toxicity, loss of biodiversity, etc. I …
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Amazon Watch: Focusing World Attention on Biodiversity
What is the single most tangible and immediate effect of our devotion to fossil fuels as the source of the world’s energy? It’s probably disease. Because of the oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, as well as the heavy metals and …
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