The video below shows the largest “calving event” (a piece of a glacier breaking off and becoming an iceberg) ever recorded. It’s the size of Manhattan, but 2 – 3 times taller than the actual New York City buildings. The …
Category: Climate Change
Trusting Scientists Re: Climate Change
The answer to the question at left is that there is an entire industry that has formed over the last half century whose purpose is to sew doubt into the public mind regarding the validity of anthropogenic global warming. In …
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Synonyms for “Crap” — And What They Mean in Your Life
I responded to the reader who sent me the meme at left: Please forward the study from Spain. I haven’t received a response, and I don’t expect to. That’s because this is 100% excrement. Before responsible people share feces with …
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Poorly Written PR Makes Author Look Like Jackass
It’s interesting to watch the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation, through its media arm The Daily Signal, use PR to forward its messages. They start off with the same framework that we all use: Find a piece of breaking news that has …
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Tagged with: climate change mitigation
Climate Science Is Easy, Doing Something About It Isn’t
I spend a decent amount of time trying to improve my understanding of particle physics and quantum mechanics. The subject is difficult, but it’s important in our world today, and therefore I believe it’s worth some of my resources. By …
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What Matters Most
The meme here is powerful, but there is no evidence that such a moment will actually arrive. Of course, it’s possible that humankind will find itself on the precipice of some sort of collapse, perhaps, via environmental decay, and there …
Tagged with: environmental decay
How Much Has the Earth Warmed?
The intense scrutiny that the rising temperature of the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere is receiving raises an important question, and interestingly, it doesn’t concern the current temperature, which modern science has nailed with great precision. Rather, it’s this: What were …
Carbon Dioxide Removal
Here’s a scholarly article in Science Magazine that addresses the challenges our civilization faces in pulling CO2 out of the Earth’s atmosphere once greenhouse gases are released. It begins by admitting that we seem to be incapable of reducing current …
Understanding Biden’s Climate Accomplishments
Below, environmentalist Zan Dubin, whom I highly respect, makes a point not too dissimilar to what I’ve often said about the failure of the media to cover Biden’s accomplishments, especially those pertaining to climate change mitigation and adaptation. She writes: …
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Exxon and Climate Disinformation
From this piece on Exxon’s role in blocking climate legislation: “Democrats have focused particular ire on Exxon, after a senior lobbyist for the company was caught in a secret video bragging that Exxon had fought climate science through “shadow groups” …
