Usually, anyone with $11.9 billion spends most of it on the contents of a Neiman Marcus fantasy gifts catalog. Anyone want a custom $475,000 Paris perfume? Yet in the right hands, in the right mind, $11.9 billion can subsidize a …
Tag: Climate Change
“Externalities” of Fossil Fuels
Externalities are the costs associated with a certain transaction that are not captured in the transaction itself, but are passed along unaccounted for (“externalized”) onto other parties who are often unaware of what’s hitting them, or, at best, unable to …
Fraudulent Renewable Energy Business Plans Always Make Me Wonder: Who's The LiAR, and Who's the "LiEE?"
A gentleman from Columbia writes: I was referred to you by Mr Gustavo Rojas from AFD Colombia….CENTRAL ELECTRICA will be the first utility-scale power plant implementing the groundbreaking ECS-SOLAR technology (solar with mechanical induction). With a total of 19.9-megawatts of …
Finding the Truth about Anthropogenic Global Warming: What’s the Greater Miracle?
About 40 years ago I read a couple of the philosophic works of the 18th Century Scottish empiricist David Hume (pictured). I vaguely recall his discussion of the subject itself, i.e., that according to empiricists, the human mind has access only …
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From Guest Blogger Christine Rudolph: Climate Change Can Bring Unwelcome Pests
With the climatic conditions of planet earth rapidly changing, changing humidity levels, global warming, extreme weather conditions and many other such events are shaping earth’s current climate. All of these changing factors have influenced all forms of life on earth. …
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Rising Sea Levels
I mentioned just the other day that sea level rise is arguably the most frightening aspect of climate change. In a comment to this post, I wrote: Of all the terrifying aspects of climate disruption, sea level rise is the …
Averting Climate Disaster Will Require Courage and Intelligence
From today’s New York Times – and two replies from a team of scientists that has added me to their distribution list: • Only if each of us chooses to be a coward. • More likely if we are stupid. So …
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Sluggish Response To Environmental Issues? Could Be a Great Deal Worse
Many of us complain bitterly about the U.S. government’s lethargy re: mitigating climate disruption and embracing clean energy solutions. Yet we live with frequent reminders of how much worse it could be. Take the Land Down Under, for instance. Pictured below …
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Species Extinctions Rates At An All-Time High, But….
One calculates the rate of species extinctions the same way we measure mortality in a certain population. We want the number of deaths per thousand individuals per year, so we take the total number of deaths in a given year, …
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John Oliver on Climate Disruption
IMO, John Oliver doesn’t get enough coverage of his terrifically insightful and hilariously funny commentary on life in the 21st Century. Here’s a four-minute-long excerpt from his recent piece on climate change, including this exchange: Newscaster: According to a recent poll, …
