In an earlier post today I wrote on nuclear energy, I mentioned the average American’s lack of awareness of and interest in climate change. And while there are a number of reasons for this, most of them political, one could …
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Exactly What’s Causing the Melting of Greenland’s Ice?
Those of us who worry about climate change have a great deal of heartburn about the melting of the ice on top of Greenland, which scientists say will be the “dominant contributor to global sea level change over the next …
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Environmentally Responsible Destruction of CFCs
My team and I will soon be writing a grant application for a company whose core expertise is in the environmentally responsible destruction of CFCs, through the collection and “demanufacturing” of old refrigerators and freezers, and the renovation of buildings …
From Guest Blogger Jesse Galt: Is Climate Change Being Taken Seriously?
According to a study from Duke University, half of Americans firmly believe in climate change. Another 34% believe that climate change is very likely. However, just because most of the American population acknowledges the existence of climate change doesn’t mean …
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Consolidated Edison Upgrading Infrastructure — Why Not Address The Underlying Problem?
According to this article in SmartGridNews, Consolidated Edison, the power utility that serves New York City and the surrounding region, is in the process of spending $1 billion to upgrade its power delivery infrastructure so to minimize outages in the …
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Electric Transportation and Coal-Fired Power Plants
Here’s an article suggesting that electric transportation saves lives insofar as its environmental benefits reduce global warming, and heat causes more deaths each year. Sadly, this is an oversimplification. As long as coal is our lowest-cost base-load energy source, EVs …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Global Warming
Question: Most of us who follow the reports of our climate scientists understand that the average temperature of the Earth’s surface is rising. When was the last time in our planet’s history that the summer melting of the arctic ice …
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Climate Change and Peak Oil
Here’s a lecture on global climate change and peak oil by British geologist and author Dr. Jeremy Leggett. If you want to know why we need an aggressive policy that curtails the burning of fossil fuels, and you want to …
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From Guest Blogger Alia: Bad Effects of Climate Change in the World
The repercussions about climate change are pretty diverse and prove out to be very much damaging to millions of people dwelling at different parts of this planet especially to the people based in developing nations. Most of the climate changes …
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Climate Change Threatens Humankind in a New and Different Way
In response to yesterday’s post What Will It Take To Involve Americans In Global Climate Change? frequent commenter Arlene writes: I stumbled onto the film “Cool It” a couple of nights ago. I understand the thesis, but in a way, the …
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