Someone asked me the other day what level of progress we’re making in phasing out fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy. My response to this question hasn’t changed much in the 15 years I’ve been studying this subject: as …
Category: Climate Change
Those Oblivious Americans
I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way at the start of each football season. The planet is on fire, and Americans everywhere are huddled around their huge TV screens watching the Packers take on the Rams.
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Stephen Hawking’s Beliefs
I wonder if environmental collapse, including climate change, could be considered “human aggression.” That may sound like a silly idea, but consider for a moment that as you’re reading this, many of the world’s most powerful people are making conscious …
Trump and Climate Change
It’s hard to estimate with any accuracy how badly another Trump presidency will set the world back in terms of mitigating climate change. One thing, however, is certain: he’s making it very clear to Big Oil that their financial support …
What Your Kids Will Remember
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.
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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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