Climate Crisis

Understanding the Global Climate System isn’t as hard as you think. We have most of the pieces to “SEE” it clearly now. — The Earth’s Climate System — A Short Users Guide. Our planet is tilted in its orientation with the Sun. This drives EVERYTHING about our Climate. It’s what gives us Seasons.

The odds of limiting warming to 1.5°C seem to make doomism a perfectly rational reaction — There are two rather disparate camps that have come to define the climate narrative. On one side are the optimists, who remain utterly convinced that the innovative power of markets will trigger the necessary transformation that’s required to overcome the climate crisis. On the other side are the pessimists. Climate…

(This is a reprint from NewsBred) It’s been nearly 150 years since Henry Louis Mencken was born (1880). An American journalist and satirist, he commented widely on contemporary movements. Mencken believed that the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (so that they seek safety) by…

I came to climate change through food and grief and social justice. I will probably be talking a lot more about all of that in the coming months, as I embark on a new venture to re-tool my life as best I can to implement the things I’ve learned and…

We have become passengers on a runaway train, speeding through a barren desert of our own making, and the bridge ahead is out. We are locked in a death spiral with the engine of climate change. We could apply the brakes, slow our momentum, perhaps even reverse course, but that…

We treat the earth like a coffee to go cup. How could it have come to this? We can find a hint in ‘Fire & Flood. A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present’ by Eugene Linden. Linden writes: The reason we usually don’t act until a…

That is, if everyone, everywhere, acts all at once. Here’s what you can do. — Have you been wondering–or maybe worrying–if it’s possible to reduce GHG emissions by half by 2030 and get to net-zero by 2050? While the climate crisis is already here, evidenced by the natural disasters all around us, there is still hope. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) clearly stated…

After diving into history, it’s time to focus on the most important time, the present. Specifically, the present-day energy industry. Sections Key Criteria For Evaluating Energy Production Methods Climate Change — ESG The Religion — What Is Holding Us Back Temperature Rises in a Historical Context — Is There Really…

Dr. James C. Deutsch, CEO Rainforest Trust — When renowned conservation author David Quammen agreed to join our board last summer, I bought a used hard copy of his most famous book, The Song of the Dodo, which I had never read. About two-thirds of the way through, Quammen describes visiting the Brazilian Amazon with Tom Lovejoy, the…