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Trump Opting for Big Oil and Climate Change Denial
Another reason — among many — not to vote for Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee for president. (Those words still sound absurd and bizarre, the world according to Dali or Pirandello.) Reuters...
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Bionic leaf beats photosynthesis, creates liquid fuel
Now this from Harvard University researchers: “bionic leaf 2.0,” which turns sunlight into liquid fuel, introduced in the academic journal Science earlier this month. In what is called an artificial...
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Climate Change: the clock is ticking (pt.1)
Here’s some news we already know or thought we knew. Yes, climate change is here and here to stay according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and its effects are no longer...
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Climate change (pt. 2): a world at war
A New Republic article in August from Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author, journalist, and founder of 350.org, put climate change and its challenge in the starkest terms: it’s a world war. While...
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“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble”
I don’t think we –by “we” I mean writers, journalists, editors, bloggers, etc.–understand the disaster facing the country with respect to many issues – most importantly (to me) on climate change,...
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“This is the way the world ends…”
Get set for a rough ride on climate change policies and inactions under Trump. Actually it will be a full-on climate disaster, with all of the progress of the past eight years—which wasn’t all that...
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Foxes guarding the henhouse
The emerging Trump administration/cabal is taking shape, and it’s not looking good for the environment and climate change. What is emerging, for the most part, is a group of rich people in tune with...
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Putin smirks: welcome to Trumpistan and “American carnage”
So the deed is done and suddenly, we live in an “American carnage” that only DJT can remedy, apparently. His dark message was a paean to nationalistic jingoism, fear mongering and isolationism. Some...
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The EPA climate change
With Scott Pruitt now installed at the EPA, what is arguably one of the most successful government agencies ever—remember the dousing of the Cuyahoga River fire? Or the reduction of smog in LA?—is now...
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It’s not nice to ignore Mother Nature
A new book by Geoffrey Heal, professor at Columbia Business School, makes a trenchant point that’s ignored by those currently in power: our prosperity depends on protecting the planet. Heal did a...
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Bill Maher: Make Earth Great Again
Bill Maher concluded Friday’s show explaining why we should concentrate on saving our planet rather than dreaming about colonizing Mars: I’m a big fan of science fiction and space exploration, but...
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Washington State lawsuit hits Feds after Hanford tunnel collapse
Washington state is taking legal action against the “other Washington” after a tunnel full of mixed radioactive and chemical waste collapsed on May 9 at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. “This alarming...
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Shame and outrage – withdrawal from the Paris climate accord
Just when you thought Trump and his administration lackeys/weasels/fools could not be any more ignorant and despicable – they surpass themselves. The Paris climate agreement was the most comprehensive...
View ArticleCanadian retailer puts organic on top
You probably don’t travel to Montreal to visit the local IGA, but make an exception because the roof of an IGA Extra store in Montreal, owned by the Duchemin family, has a huge organic garden, billed...
View ArticleThings in the wind
Recent news on the environmental front is full of wind chimes. Did you know, for example, that Mars Inc. is making M&Ms with wind power? In fact Mars has engaged two popular spokespersons from its...
View ArticleOil-by-rail project gets derailed
It’s tough to find good things to write about on the climate change front these days, especially with the abomination that is Scott Pruitt in charge of the EPA, and Trumpola still around…has it been...
View ArticleJames Balog and geologic-scale change
“We are in the midst of geologic-scale change, and we humans are causing it.” James Balog says this during Chasing Ice, a masterpiece of filmmaking and science. It’s perhaps the one film that that...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name?
A recent Bloomberg piece by Faye Flam, “Inspiring Terms Are Simple. ‘Climate Change’ Isn’t,” makes the point, I guess, that climate change as a term is not very effective. Flam writes, “As scientific...
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