I normally keep my investment strategies to myself, but I was thinking about this just now, and I thought I’d mention some things that make me salivate in terms of opportunities: First, here’s what I decline to buy: Won’t buy …
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Senator Calls For Investigation Into The Climate Change 'Denial-For-Hire Scheme'
All those of us who follow the three-ring circus that is the U.S. government when it comes to the discussion on climate change and possible steps towards mitigation must be laughing at the article linked above. This guy happens to …
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Why the Law-Making Process in the U.S. is So Slow to React to the Will of the People
It’s common for readers outside the U.S. to wonder how it’s possible that this country is making so little progress on climate change mitigation, even though 2014 was the hottest year on record, and May, June, August, September, October and …
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Is Momentum Building for a Response to Climate Disruption?
If the future looks even remotely like the past, there’s certainly no reason to believe that the UN meeting in New York next month will be any more successful than the dismal failures of the numerous similar sessions held over …
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American Physical Society Discusses Climate Change and its Mitigation
My colleague Jim Boyden (PhD, physics, Cal Tech, 1960) was kind enough to brief me on the highlights of the meeting of the American Physical Society at the University of California at Berkeley last weekend. The core of the meeting, …
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Energy from Coal Is Not Going Away
I know I have a tendency to carp about dozens of issues: Chevron in Ecuador, the lack of an energy policy in the U.S., certain senators who don’t know the difference between methane and carbon dioxide—and others who use certain …
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Robert Redford Advocating for Climate Change Mitigation
Actor/director Robert Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and an extremely active advocate for climate change mitigation. In this short video linked above, he calls upon U.S. President Obama to keep his word, and fulfill …
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The U.S. Has a Real Opportunity Re: Climate Change, Energy Policy
I hope you never tire of reading my blog posts every day, as well as my occasional books, white papers, and so forth. But if I’ve finally written something that sent you over the edge and you find yourself looking …
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U.S. President Obama's “All-of-the-Above” Energy Strategy
A friend of mine who had made some energy-related suggestions to President Obama just received a very thoughtful and well-written note in response, talking up the “all-of-the-above” strategy. I respond: That’s great. From here, I’d like to see some real …
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A Question on Geoengineering
Howard writes: Have you heard of a technology where they simulate a volcano eruption by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky, in a sense cooling the planet. I heard about this in the New Yorker magazine, and in a book …
