I just ran across some predictions for the stock market in the year 2030, which made me think about the so-called futurists (those who get paid to predict the future) and what they must be wrestling with.
Tag: sea level rise
Ironically, Alaska Kicking Butt in Climate Change Mitigation
Alaska, a deeply Republican/Libertarian state, is extremely active in climate change mitigation, with aggressive policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, principally because it has so much to lose.
Certain U.S. States Doing Great Work in Slowing Climate Change
As retrogressive and obstructionist as the U.S. federal government is vis-a-vis climate change mitigation, certain of the states are doing fantastic work.
Energy Matters
Two items from today’s edition of “Energy Matters” from the American Energy Society with my comments beneath each: – Solar: The US rooftop solar industry contracted in 2017 – after 16 straight years of gains. Meanwhile, Tesla is now in second place to SunRun …
Climate Change Poses a Broad Range of Threats to Investors
Here’s a podcast from Yale University pointing out how climate change poses risks to investors. Apparently, this is one of an ongoing series, which makes sense, given that there literally hundreds of ways in which investors are impacted by global …
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One of Many Reasons It’s Not a Good Time To Be an Oil Company
What’s going to happen as the Earth warms, the sea-levels rise, and storms batter the East Coast of the U.S. with ever-increasing ferocity? Well, for one, damages, measured in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars per storm, are …
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With its Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, the U.S. Parts Company with the Civilized World
As we learned to our horror yesterday, the U.S. has again elected to make itself the pariah of the world, this time with its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. But is there any reason to be surprised? …
Lots of Stuff Happens As Ice Melts on Earth–And None of It Is Good
What happens as the Earth warms? Well, farmland turns to desert, storms worsen, the sea level rises (as 24 cubic miles of ice melts every year in the Antarctic alone), and the oceans lose their capacity to support most animal …
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Eco-Threats To Our Civilization’s Food Supplies
According to The Writer’s Almanac, it’s the anniversary of “Black Sunday” in 1935, the day on which the Great Plains region experienced one of the largest dust storms in American history. It’s an important reminder of what happens when farm …
Tagged with: algal blooms, bioaccumulate, Chemical fertilizer run-off, Climate Change, dead zones, deforestation, desertification, drought conditions, Eco-Threats To Our Civilization’s Food Supplies, environmental issues, fungicides, herbicides, Insecticides, melting of the ice sheets in Greenland the Antarctic, monocropping, Pesticide residues, sea level rise
Here’s a Prediction of the Future: It Will Remain Unpredictable
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: If you want to accept a doctrine based on faith, that’s okay by me. However, it precludes any objective or realistic analysis. No one can accurately predict the future. First, no one’s suggesting that taking things …
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