This cartoon from “Bloper” presents humankind’s response to climate change thus far. Virtually every educated and intelligent person on Earth, including our scientists and our political leaders, understands that the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans is rising, and …
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Re: Climate Change Mitigation, Our World Leaders Are Failing Miserably
Here’s a great article on the moral imperative to address climate change. Its point: “To be complacent about climate is … to endorse future human suffering on an almost inconceivable scale.” As we look back on 2023, the hottest year …
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A Thought from Carl Sagan
In a recent post, China Lies at the Crux of the Effort to Mitigate Climate Change, I mentioned the primary impediment to our efforts to mitigate climate change, i.e., that our political and economic world is divided into 200+ sovereign …
China Lies at the Crux of the Effort to Mitigate Climate Change
Here’s a great article in The Economist that covers what China is (and isn’t) doing to put an end to the world’s consumption of coal, by far the most toxic source of energy. From the piece: China has good reason …
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A Hot Moment in Climate Change Denial
This MSN.com article begins: Late Sunday night, Lauren Boebert shared this post on social media, where she openly disparaged climate activists. “You’ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protesters trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to …
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Seven Different Climate Records Set in 2023
Here’s an article in Global Citizen that begins: Record heat. Record rain. Record fires. Recording-breaking environmental news is starting to sound like a broken record. As Samantha Burgess, the deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), summed it up: …
Decarbonizing Our Homes
Dr. Tom Konrad, whom I interviewed for my book “Is Renewable Really Doable?” writes: “New Yorkers for Clean Power‘s energy coaching program (for which I coach) got a mention on Canary Media today.” Here’s the article to which he’s referring, …
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Phasing Out Fossil Fuels from Powering Our Lawn Tools
The Los Angeles Times reports: Gas-powered yard tools may be harder to come by starting this year. Assembly Bill 1346 requires phasing out fossil fuel-fueled leaf blowers, lawnmowers, weed trimmers, chain saws and other tools. The tools were targeted for …
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Mitigating Aircraft Contributions to Climate Change
Everyone knows that burning jet fuel releases CO2 into the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and further warming the Earth. But did you know that contrails act to make the situation even worse? And that some of our top scientific …
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Science and Critical Thinking
The author of the cartoon here conflates “capacity for critical thinking” and the “training to conduct scientific research,” even though they are two different things. When it comes to space exploration, disease control, climate science, etc., all the critical thinking …
