Last week US Secretary of State John Kerry went to Indonesia and called Climate Change “perhaps the worlds most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” I’m happy that someone in his position has said such a thing, especially following President Obama’s declaration in January that Climate Change is not debatable, it’s…
California Gov. Jerry Brown recently declared California to be in a state of Water Emergency. Why? We are having great weather this “winter” with clear skies and warm temperatures – looking out the front window of the house where we live, and it looks summer. Normally California gets a lot…
Following President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday, the Sierra Club issued a call for the people to tell the Obama Administration “no new fracking on public lands.” Despite declaring the time for debate on climate change is over, and saying “Climate Change is a fact,” Obama bragged…
Is the ocean too big to boil? We look at the oceans, covering 3/4ths of the planets surface, and they look too vast for humans to have any permanent impact on them. Yet the oceans are filling up with plastic trash, with radiation from Fukushima, there are growing dead zones…
Prof. James Hansen and a group of scientists released a paper today claiming we need to go nuclear to prevent climate change. Generally speaking I’m against nuclear power, and point at the Fukushima disaster as proof of my fear of that technology. But.. the scientists behind the paper make an…
Professor James Hansen and a team of climate scientists from around the world released on Tuesday a scientific paper, “Assessing Dangerous Climate Change,” to call for serious action now to address climate change. The scientists argue that Humanity has already delayed action enough that drastic action is now required to…
With oil companies racking up record profits it may seem absurd to suggest their days are numbered, and that investors should sell their oil company stocks by 2020. But that’s a suggestion in an article posted today on the MarketWatch website. That article in turn references no less an institution…
Is Climate Change the be-all-end-all problem that “we” are facing? Yes, I agree with the sentiment of the picture you see here (facebook)- namely, the effects expected from Climate Change are so huge and far-reaching that there’s no “adapting” to it, really, at least not in any simple straightforward way. …
Climate change, and climate change denial, stands to become a huge political issue according to poll results released on Friday by the League of Conservation Voters. The organization polled a bipartisan sample of voters under age 35, and found climate change concern to be very high, and that overwhelmingly the…
Tuesday’s election of former Gov. Mark Sanford to the House of Representatives in South Carolina raises a crucial climate change question. Will Sanford, like so many other Republican politicians, flip-flop on his acceptance of human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change in the face of the Tea Party. Sanford, who was a member…
When a big company signs an agreement to be a good environmental steward, we tend to think of greenwashing, that the company is just looking to paint themselves green and there’s no real depth to the commitment. Today, GM became the first automaker to sign on with the Climate Declaration…
How do we calculate the average greenhouse gas emissions of a vehicle fleet? The European Union has legislated a target of an average 95 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) per kilometer by 2020. Clearly when an automaker sells an electric car, that car lowers the automakers fleet average environmental footprint. …
You don’t think of the head honcho of a major corporation like General Motors (GM) doing something altruistic like changing the company’s vehicle strategy just to save the polar bears. The GM shareholders hope their CEO will be making choices that improve the bottom line, and aim the company into…
Today 350.org organized a series of rallies in Washington D.C. and other U.S. Cities like San Francisco to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has been in the making for a long time, the Keystone XL will (if built) be responsible for carrying oil from Alberta Tar Sands to…
Monday’s inaugural address by President Obama raised the hopes of environmentalists around the world by promising to take serious action about climate change. However, by Wednesday his Press Secretary, Jay Carney, was deflecting questions about a carbon tax, saying the administration has no intention of proposing a tax on carbon.…
