It’s becoming increasingly clear that criminal charges are going to be brought against ExxonMobil for its cover-up of what it knew about the relationship between fossil fuel consumption and climate change. Each passing month brings us a new-found wealth of …
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The Plot Thickens for ExxonMobil
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What a Simple Graph Shows Us About Global Warming
There’s very little to be said about this article and the chart below. If you don’t believe that the temperature of the Earth is increasing, you’re badly misinformed.
From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Green Factories–Renewable Manufacturing Methods That Create a Cleaner Earth
If serious problems like global warming and the devastation of natural ecosystems are to be averted, changes must be made. One way to accomplish that is by moving towards a green philosophy for manufacturing. People still need products, and manufacturing …
1400-Mile-Long Great Barrier Reef Has Lost the Battle to Global Warming
In the past decade or so, I’ve begun to read the “In Memoriam” sector of the alumni magazine of the college I attended in the 1970s, hoping that I don’t read about someone I know. For all those who read …
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Global Warming, El Niño and The Health of Our Coral Reefs
Here’s an article that explains the impact of super-charged El Niño conditions caused by global warming on the world’s coral reefs. Hint: it’s not good. To quote: Subsequent flyover surveys have confirmed an unfolding disaster: “Only four reefs out of 520 [observed] had …
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More on Subsidies for the Oil Companies
A reader comments on my post on subsidies for the oil companies. Thanks for the additional clarity Craig. Your charts also do not allow for infrastructural benefits. The oil lobby weighed in heavily in favor of our national highway system. …
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COP 21 Meetings: A Success By Any Reasonable Measure
There are plenty of people and groups disappointed by the outcome of the Paris COP 21 meetings, in particular, those who stand to suffer most immediately and intensely as a result of climate change, or of the abusive processes related …
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Your Influence on the World
I just had a funny little experience that I thought I’d share. I was helping my son study for his sociology final, and we came upon the concept of the Malthusian Trap, the prediction that the population will rise to …
Making a Point about Climate Change and Its Deniers in a Way We Can All Appreciate
For some reason I’ve been running across a spate of humorous and terrifically well done pieces that make important points. Here’s one on climate change deniers that got me laughing so loudly that I’m sure the people outside my office here …
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Conservation of Matter, Energy
Though the concept of the conservation of matter had been around for millennia, it was 18th Century French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier who nailed it down tight, while also suggesting that Earth was a closed system with respect to the …
