Tag: Climate Change
American climate refugees living in tents and cars after Paradise destroyed by fire
It seems the news media never wants to portray Americans as refugees. The press can describe folks in poorer countries as refugees when they’re fleeing a war or something, but I’ve never heard citizens of any rich country like America described as refugees. In the area near Paradise California, thousands…
California’s extreme wildfires this week are a Climate Change story
Could some homes in Paradise CA have been saved with on-site energy storage systems?
The November 8, 2018 wildfire called the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise California. But, it did not destroy the entire town. Some buildings and houses survived the firestorm, but not because of flukes of fate, instead some homeowners prepared ahead of time because they knew about the fire…
Paradise is destroyed while Pres. Trump lies about climate change and California
Subsequent to the “Camp Fire” which destroyed Paradise California, on November 8, 2018, President Trump blamed California’s forestry policies saying that “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” and Trump threatened to withhold federal payments to…
Gov Brown tells protesters he’ll put them in the ground, that CA should rely on its own oil versus Venezuela’s
Trump Administration fiddles in Washington while Houston drowns under extreme weather hurricane
The Trump Administration is having its Katrina-moment this week. Katrina being the hurricane that struck New Orleans during the Bush32 Administration, and became the poster-child for both horrible government policy and the cost of ignoring the effects of climate change. We’ll leave the government policy issues to other people who…
Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signs climate change law extending cap-and-trade for 10 years
Today California Governor Jerry Brown thumbed his nose in the direction of President Trump, and signed legislation extending California’s Cap-and-Trade program and defining certain non-vehicular emissions as air pollutants and toxic air contaminants. Well, he didn’t actually thumb his nose, but by taking this step California is taking a…
Warming climate causing places expected to be permanently frozen to melt
Climate Change making the Arctic abnormally warm – Again
Antonia Juhasz: Why is Saudi Arabia Undermining COP21 When Climate Change Could Make the Gulf Uninhabitable?
At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), Saudi Arabia’s action was to throw up as many roadblocks to reaching an agreement. This video was recorded by Democracy Now two days before the COP21 agreement was reached. Ms. Juhasz notes that the Persian Gulf region will become simply uninhabitable unless we…
Expert briefing on the text of the Paris Agreement, COP21 Climate Change conference
Naomi Klein: COP21 climate change agreement dooms us to 3 degrees C of warming
Is the COP21 climate deal be enough to save the planet? Is the lack of mandatory requirements a show-stopper?
Should we celebrate that the COP21 Climate Change summit produced an agreement? The new agreement doesn’t have mandatory limits, mandatory agreements, etc … those are things which were in the Kyoto climate change agreement which we had 18 years ago. Maybe the agreement won’t be enough – but at least…
COP21 produced a climate change agreement – get ready for an intense political battle with fossil fuel interests
After over 20 years of negotiations, the COP (Conference of Parties) UN Climate Change negotiation process has finally produced an “accord”. French President François Hollande spun it as “The decisive deal for the planet is here.” But environmentalists lamented the climate change deal reached in Paris did not do enough. In…
American climate refugees living in tents and cars after Paradise destroyed by fire
It seems the news media never wants to portray Americans as refugees. The press can describe folks in poorer countries as refugees when they’re fleeing a war or something, but I’ve never heard citizens of any rich country like America described as refugees. In the area near Paradise California, thousands…
California’s extreme wildfires this week are a Climate Change story
Could some homes in Paradise CA have been saved with on-site energy storage systems?
The November 8, 2018 wildfire called the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise California. But, it did not destroy the entire town. Some buildings and houses survived the firestorm, but not because of flukes of fate, instead some homeowners prepared ahead of time because they knew about the fire…
Paradise is destroyed while Pres. Trump lies about climate change and California
Subsequent to the “Camp Fire” which destroyed Paradise California, on November 8, 2018, President Trump blamed California’s forestry policies saying that “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” and Trump threatened to withhold federal payments to…
Gov Brown tells protesters he’ll put them in the ground, that CA should rely on its own oil versus Venezuela’s
Trump Administration fiddles in Washington while Houston drowns under extreme weather hurricane
The Trump Administration is having its Katrina-moment this week. Katrina being the hurricane that struck New Orleans during the Bush32 Administration, and became the poster-child for both horrible government policy and the cost of ignoring the effects of climate change. We’ll leave the government policy issues to other people who…
Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signs climate change law extending cap-and-trade for 10 years
Today California Governor Jerry Brown thumbed his nose in the direction of President Trump, and signed legislation extending California’s Cap-and-Trade program and defining certain non-vehicular emissions as air pollutants and toxic air contaminants. Well, he didn’t actually thumb his nose, but by taking this step California is taking a…
Warming climate causing places expected to be permanently frozen to melt
Climate Change making the Arctic abnormally warm – Again
Antonia Juhasz: Why is Saudi Arabia Undermining COP21 When Climate Change Could Make the Gulf Uninhabitable?
At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), Saudi Arabia’s action was to throw up as many roadblocks to reaching an agreement. This video was recorded by Democracy Now two days before the COP21 agreement was reached. Ms. Juhasz notes that the Persian Gulf region will become simply uninhabitable unless we…
Expert briefing on the text of the Paris Agreement, COP21 Climate Change conference
Naomi Klein: COP21 climate change agreement dooms us to 3 degrees C of warming
Is the COP21 climate deal be enough to save the planet? Is the lack of mandatory requirements a show-stopper?
Should we celebrate that the COP21 Climate Change summit produced an agreement? The new agreement doesn’t have mandatory limits, mandatory agreements, etc … those are things which were in the Kyoto climate change agreement which we had 18 years ago. Maybe the agreement won’t be enough – but at least…
COP21 produced a climate change agreement – get ready for an intense political battle with fossil fuel interests
After over 20 years of negotiations, the COP (Conference of Parties) UN Climate Change negotiation process has finally produced an “accord”. French President François Hollande spun it as “The decisive deal for the planet is here.” But environmentalists lamented the climate change deal reached in Paris did not do enough. In…