So is the sky gonna fall, is Texas gonna sink, and are Florida’s Everglades gonna dry up now that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio each chairs a Senate subcommittee with responsibility for science? Cruz has NASA, atmosphere and science policy in his group, while Rubio has NOAA in his. Probably not, says Roger Pilke, director …
If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s projections are correct, there will be many more dead to celebrate in the near future, because the people of this planet are not doing nearly enough to solve our global emissions problems. Failure to reduce emissions, the group of scientists and other experts found, could threaten society with …
It’s entirely possible. …a new report from the University of Hawaii’s Sea Grant program states that islands in the Pacific might be unrecognizable in the coming years as climate change makes them hotter, arid, stormy and even disease-ridden. Disease-ridden? Yes. Diseases like cholera and dengue fever which thrive in hot climates might become commonplace. But …
We all know that state legislatures are often the stepping stones for ambitious pols who want to go work at the Capitol Building in DC (3 of 7 Democrats running this year for US District One in Honolulu are State Senators or Representatives; another 3 are City Councilmembers). It’s often useful to point out how …
Despite the danger to Alaska’s 47,000 miles of coastline from climate change, the Republican primary race for the Senate seat currently held by Democrat Mark Begich is a
THE FIVE STAGES OF GLOBAL WARMING 1. Denial 2. Guilt 3. Depression 4. Acceptance 5. Drowning — God (@TheTweetOfGod) May 8, 2014
Senator Marco Rubio is either a damned fool or a panderer to his party’s more rabid base. I’m voting for the former. ABC’s Jonathan Karl pressed Rubio on his belief that humans don’t have anything to do with global warming. “But let me get this straight, you do not think that human activity, its production …
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Today the US Department of State issued its final Environmental Impact Statement on the construction of this “death funnel,” as Charlie Pierce calls it. “Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed Project, is unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands or the continued demand …
“. . . The unpleasant truth is that it will be all too easy for the rest of the nation to just let South Florida go.” That is, of course, not the American way. We don’t let cities go. We don’t secede territory to the ocean. But this is the direction that our failure to …
Exxon had its annual shareholders meeting yesterday in the oil-soaked region of Dallas (there was a reason JR Ewing’s ranch was outside the city), and it did some reprehensible things. Most remarkably, its CEO, a man named Tillerson, responded to suggestions from environmental activists that the company set targets for reducing carbon emissions from its …
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