I’d be careful here. Your kids will remember all kinds of things about you, in this case, that you were a selfish redneck who contributed to the demise of the planet with his refusal to care about anything but himself.
Category: Climate Change
The Science of Climate Change (or Anything Else) Isn’t an “Opinion”
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: The important thing is that we survive future disasters, not do nothing because we don’t all agree that climate change exists or if it is a natural cycle or caused by humans. I …
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NPR: Is it Possible to Know How Many People Have Died Because of Climate Change?
NPR’s special series, “The Undercount: The invisible death toll from climate change,” aims to answer this question. When climate and health reporter Alejandra Borunda asked doctors what important topics she should focus on, she heard the same thing over and …
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Lest We Forget How Damaging Trump Is to the Environment
This from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Progressives are so fixated on beating Trump in November due to his lies and criminality that we sometimes forget how horrible he is on environmental issues.
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The Ideas of Our Times
What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true. Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the trend towards world fascism, as the United States teeters …
Will Banning the Phrase “Climate Change” Make It Stop?
From National Public Radio: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed legislation that erases most references to climate change (and global warming) from state law. Florida remains the third most populous state in the union, behind California and Texas, but …
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration
To clarify: The image at the top is largely correct. As long as trees are alive, normally at least many decades, they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as hydrocarbons that, upon their death, are rereleased as they …
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration
To clarify: The image at the top is largely correct. As long as trees are alive, normally at least many decades, they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as hydrocarbons that, upon their death, are rereleased as they …
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Will Florida Become “Blue?”
In the political sense of the word, it seems like we’re a long way from seeing Florida as a blue state. Trump won the state in 2020 by only 3 points, but the overall feeling in the Sunshine State is …
Grammar in Political Writing
Do you ever get a text that starts like this? “Hi, (Craig). Joe Biden here, asking you for your support in the upcoming election….” Anyone’s first thought would be that the president of the United States is most definitely not …
