Category: Climate Change

Here’s a conversation between me and the climate denier I mentioned yesterday in my post: Fringe Belief on Climate Change. Reader: “Climate change is a totalitarian position.” (He concluded this from someone who said that the science of climate change …

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A reader sent this, noting: “Climate change is a totalitarian position.” Fortunately for us all, this is a fringe belief. Just beyond the outer edge of the outer rim of the fringe.

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The author of this article has gone to an enormous amount of effort to look through thousands of different midterm elections at the state and local level, and examine the impact that each one has with respect to climate change. …

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Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty once told me that he believes the concept of “Mother Earth” is actually damaging at this point in our environmental decay, insofar as it implies a higher power that serves to limit the damage that …

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Sequestering carbon dioxide, aka carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is an important topic in today’s world of  climate change mitigation. Here’s an article, submitted by 2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood, that promotes the concept of pumping CO2 into rock formations and …

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Here’s another piece on capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air (DAC). As I’ve said, I find this subject impossible to take seriously; it’s even harder to conceive than carbon capture and sequestration CCS, for several reasons: The apparatus that …

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A business-as-usual approach to our planet’s environment means that unprecedented levels of suffering will be visited upon a huge percentage of the world’s population. Decent people see this as morally unacceptable, given that the technology exists to avert a great …

Environmental Catastrophe Affects Us Disproportionately Read More »

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In preparation for the chapter on national security in my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed James Woolsey, former director of the CIA. As I predicted, he was adamant about the need to mitigate and adapt to climate …

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I work out at the local YMCA, which unfortunately was founded by a wealthy Republican, and thus, on the way to my favorite machines, I have walk by a set of televisions, one of which always shows Fox News. As …

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From Clint Eastwood: People say that we must leave a better planet to our children.  The truth is that we must leave better children to our planet. I would say that both are true.  Of course, as a true right-winger, …

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