Trump plans to nominate Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy and environmental policy skeptic, to be the next energy secretary. Wright plans to slow the process of phasing out fossil fuels in favor of renewables, and is perhaps best known for …
Category: Climate Change
Common Trait of Trump Supporters: Arrogance
In healthcare, we have people who think they know better than the doctors and medical scientists. In climate change, it’s arguably even more offensive. Here, we have the climate deniers who claim that the true cause of our warming temperatures …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Dismantling Environmental Regulation and U.S. Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change
Question: The New York Times reports: President-elect Donald J. Trump announced on Monday that he would nominate former Representative Lee Zeldin, Republican of New York, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a position that is expected to be central to Mr. …
Climate Deniers Have Something in Common
A reader sent me this meme and commented: It’s always the dumbest person you know. Tell me about it! I won’t name any names, but I think most of us have had this experience.
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Melting Glaciers and Sea-Level Rise
The bottom photo here was taken 100 years after the one on the top. I’m reminded of a conversation I had with a guy who leads a team of researchers at JPL in Pasadena, CA, measuring the strength and solidity …
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Getting Serious about Renewable Energy in Texas
Here’s a piece that suggests that the people of Texas are developing a cleaner grid-mix, because they’re tired of have huge swaths of residential land destroyed by hurricanes, e.g., Beryl of June and July, 2024. This is a great example …
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Who Should Pay for Environmental Damage?
When Americans went to the polls earlier this week, the idea expressed in the meme here went from a real possibility to a pipe dream. On a related note, 54% of Americans aged 16–74 read below a 6th grade level, …
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Climate Change Effects Are Not Equally Distributed
The cartoon here has many societal implications surrounding the idea that our planet is actually a small island on which everyone is affected by the vast damage we’re doing to our environment. The truth, however, is a bit different. The …
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“Views” or “Beliefs” on Climate Change
When my childhood friends came to learn that I’d become an author of materials of environmental sustainability, they sometimes asked for my opinions on climate change. I explain that because climate change is a science, it’s inappropriate to apply the …
Project 2025
Anyone who wishes to see an organized human civilization survive the next 50 years needs to hope that the GOP agenda embodied in Project 2025 loses at the polls on November 5th.
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