Within ten minutes of one another, I: 1) Got a call from someone with a perpetual motion machine that involves the movement of buoyant objects in water (I see at least two of these per year), and 2) Encountered this …
Tag: Climate Change
International Panel on Climate Change Has a Tough Job
I just did a phone interview for a young lady writing a paper for a course she’s taking in college, which reminded me of how passionate the youth of today is about climate change and the environment more generally. She …
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From Guest Blogger Kimberly Grimms: The True Cost of Climate Change To World Resources
During the last hundred years, the world has transformed into a new climatical era – where temperatures have exceeded global averages for 36 consecutive years. We live in a world of more than 7 billion people, where carbon dioxide emissions …
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Global Warming – Looking at the Oceans As Well As the Atmosphere
Here’s a good article on climate change, exploring the supposed hiatus in the rise in atmospheric temperatures, and discussing the role the ocean is playing in absorbing heat.
Ayn Rand’s Philosophy and Sustainability
While U.S. football fans spent last Sunday eating and drinking their way through the Super Bowl, few noticed that it was also the birthday of Ayn Rand, author of philosophic novels. Her concept, as we all know, is that individual creativity, …
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Bone Dry Out Here
I’m sure most readers are aware that 2013 was the driest year on record for us out here in California, and there’s not a drop of rain in the extended weather forecast. The article linked above has some terrific photography …
Science Can Save Us, If We’re Wise Enough To Use It
I’m sure many 2GreenEnergy readers here in the U.S. watch our Public Broadcasting System (PBS), a nonprofit organization that says about itself: “PBS and our member stations are America’s largest classroom, the nation’s largest stage for the arts and a …
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CBS’s “60 Minutes” Airs Hatchet-Job on CleanTech
The CBS news show “60 Minutes” sports a history of hatchet-jobs that goes back almost half a century. They’re phenomenally good at selecting a certain conclusion and then supporting it with misleading reporting, trick camera-work, and quotes taken out of …
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From Guest Blogger Kimberly Grimms: Effects of Smart Technologies in the Era of Climate Change
Movies such as Oblivion, Elysium, and After Earth show a post-apocalyptic Earth where people are trying to survive the harsh environment. In these movies, man is shown to possess advance smart technologies. These are computers which can think like humans, …
Lots of Content on Climate Change
Every day, the sheer volume of material written on climate change continues to amaze me – and, of course, too much is better than too little. The only real problem with the mass of journalism on the subject is that …
