Here’s a video that addresses an important form of adaptation to climate change: relocating entire communities. The U.S. federal government shelled out $48 million to move a low-lying community in Louisiana to higher ground. Why? Less than 10% of the …
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Trump’s War on the Environment Is a Yawn
Donald Trump is dropping climate change from the list of threats to U.S. national security, a move bound to please his dwindling base of a) the rich and b) hateful people/morons. (Note to Trump supporters: If you’re not sure which …
Melting Sea Ice Puts Alaskan Village Into a Quandary
Here’s a story about a small town in Northern Alaska whose 650 citizens are currently voting whether or not to relocate, as the melting of the sea ice due to climate change is allowing the incoming waves to erode their …
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Ian Bremmer’s Frightening Position on Climate Change
As I’ve mentioned, eminent American political scientist Ian Bremmer is an incredibly impressive guy; he entered college at 15, received his PhD in political science from Stanford at 24, and now stands as one of the most noteworthy figures on Earth …
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Tagged with: climate refugees, droughts that expand in both duration and severity, economic and geopolitical implications of climate change, effects of climate change, eminent American political scientist Ian Bremmer, G Zero, opening to navigation of the Northwest Passage, providing access to oil and other resources in the Arctic
The Compassion We Have for Strangers and Its Relevance To Climate Change Mitigation
Here’s a video that’s doing very well on Facebook—and for a good reason: it’s a reminder of how selfless and generous people can be with perfect strangers in the time of a crisis (in this case, 9/11). I hope you’ll …
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How Will Our Civilization Deal with Hundreds of Millions of Climate Refugees?
It’s amazing that the heartbreaking stories of the Syrian refugees haven’t prompted more discussion of the ultimate tragedy associated with people being forced to flee their homes, which will be playing itself out in spades over the coming decades: climate …
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If the Move To Renewables Is Inevitable, Why Not Do It Now?
Here’s a question for you: When you listen to the debates in English Parliament, and hear how people with opposing viewpoints heckle and interrupt one another, doesn’t your skin crawl? Mine does. These people have such incredible manners on most …
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Is Climate Change The World's Biggest Problem?
Frequent commenter and 2GreenEnergy supporter Tim Kingston sent me this for comment: an article that asserts that climate change isn’t one of our civilization’s most important problems, and that global poverty is, in fact, at the top. Sorry to be …
Chaos Theory and Understanding Global Climate Change
Here’s an article from Forbes.com written by my colleague Tom Konrad on Chaos Theory as it applies to the analysis of both the stock market and climate change. This subject has been at the core of Tom’s life’s work, starting …
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Tagged with: Arctic ice gone, Black Swan, chaos theory, climate refugees, droughts, dustbowlification, Forbes.com, global climate change, global warming, melting tundra released methane, modeling Earth’s climate, ocean acidification, Ramanathan, rising sea levels, Scripps Institute, Tom Konrad, water shortages
Film Project: Energy and Ethics
2GreenEnergy co-founder George Alger and I are in the process of making a five-minute video on “Ethics and Energy” to be entered in a contest later in the year. As we currently contemplate the project, the video will feature me …
Tagged with: agribusiness, Amazon rain forest, big energy, clean energy, climate refugees, depletion of natural resources, eco-friendly, Ethics and Energy, farm land desertification, fossil fuels, global climate change, global warming, global warming hoax, Heartland Institute, mass starvation, mega-corporations, oil companies, poisoning food with chemicals, polluting oceans skies, Renewable Energy, rising sea levels, skyrocketing rates of disease, sustainability, worlds population
