In his long-awaited encyclical on the environment and climate change, Pope Francis has called for swift action to save the planet from environmental ruin, urging world leaders to hear “the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor.” He called for a change of lifestyle in rich countries…
Pope Francis unveiled a beautiful document calling for wide ranging changes in lots of facets of society. An end to Consumerism and more. It’s something that will certainly enrage the power moguls – and the Turks have a good analysis of why.
Pope Francis is preparing an Encyclical on Climate Change. This video goes into an idea that Saint Francis is more-or-less the patron saint of environmentalists. Pope Francis is the first Pope ever to name himself after Saint Francis of Assisi
Input document for the “Clean Energy Ministerial” prepared by the IEA. Key Findings Market viability of some clean energy technologies is progressing, but the overall rate of deployment falls short of achieving the ETP 2°C Scenario (2DS). The cost gap between electricity generated from renewables and that from fossil fuels…
Another anti-electric-vehicle article has made it into the mainstream press, so it’s time for everyone to freak out and think the sky is falling. I’m talking about an opinion piece in USA Today, Electric car benefits? Just myths, by well-known distorter of facts Bjørn Lomborg. He has the ability to string…
Elon Musk has gone to Detroit for the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) this week preaching that between climate change and fracking there’s an urgent necessity to switch to electrified vehicles and establish a price on carbon. The comments came in a long (1 hour) interview with Bloomberg News…
President Obama was elected in 2008 on a platform promising, among other things, a green jobs revolution. That the way out of the economic mess of 2008-9, that threatened a global economic meltdown and catastrophic depression, was to support green technologies, green energy systems, and lead a wave of innovation…
This may become typical if sea level rises as expected The Conservative approach to enrolling climate change deniers into action is not to get into a battle, confronting the doubters. Instead it’s to say “Look, there must be, in the back of your mind, at least a little doubt. You…
Warming temperatures around the planet is expected to cause glaciers to melt more rapidly, adding extra water to the ocean, raising the sea level. The question has been how much the sea level will rise. Will it be a foot or two, or will it be twenty feet. For those…
How can anyone whose job creates lots of problems in the world live with themselves? The problems created by some jobs are obvious. For example gasoline station attendants are enablers to all the ills that come from burning gasoline. The job of an “insect/pest control” workers is spraying poison in…
On Monday, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization posted it’s yearly report on the climate: WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2013. The report doesn’t mince words, it clearly says that human-induced climate change is causing higher global temperatures and more extreme weather events. The climate changes…
Over the weekend a big landslide struck Oso, WA, located on the Stillaguamish River about an hour north of Seattle. It’s a tragedy of large order, with several already confirmed dead, reports from emergency workers saying it’s worse than has yet been reported, whole neighborhoods wiped out, etc. I’ll pop in…
Climate change will, as many expect, cause pain and suffering on a large scale, with hundreds of millions of people displaced, wars, and the erasure of trillions of dollars from the world economy. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to…
A team of scientists from University of East Anglia in England have found four new man-made chemicals that harm the ozone layer, according to a paper published on Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience. The findings identify three new CFC’s and one new HCFC (Hydrochlorofluorocarbons). The scientists analyzed samples collected…
