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  • Climate Choices: Later Rather Than Sooner

    Created: Friday, 30 April 2010 10:46 Author: G J Lau
    When my parents were born, their parents were wondering how bad things would get before it got better. When I was born my parents wanted my life to be better then theirs. When my children were born I wanted their lives to be as good as mine. For my grandc...

  • A Species on the Brink?

    Created: Sunday, 25 April 2010 12:06 Author: G J Lau
    The stating of the obvious can have an unexpectedly powerful effect. The first time I experienced this was in a book written by Loren Eiseley, an amazing writer who happened to be an anthropologist and naturalist. What did he say that was so obvious and ...

  • A Perfect Climate For Knaves and Fools

    Created: Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:23 Author: G J Lau
    How many times have you seen a James Bond movie where Bond foils some villainous scheme to destroy the world (and turn a buck while they are at it) by blasting it with satellite death rays or causing fake wars or destroying the world's gold supply? What i...

  • Climate Change: Cooking Up A Solution

    Created: Sunday, 18 April 2010 16:21 Author: G J Lau
    I've just started reading Eli Kintisch's new book entitled "Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope -- or Worst Nightmare -- for Averting Climate Catastrophe." Early on he makes a point that nutshells the appeal of geoengineering quite nicely: Climate change...

  • Climate Change: Three Questions From The Future

    Created: Thursday, 15 April 2010 23:13 Author: G J Lau
    The Watergate scandal immortalized two questions: What did you know and when did you know it? A couple of decades from now my grandchildren will have their own questions that need answers. What did we know about climate change? When did we know it? What d...

  • A Learning Year

    Created: Sunday, 11 April 2010 12:27 Author: G J Lau
    My wife and I spend a week in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina each year. For me, this is a time to relax and reflect. Last year I came up with the idea of a web site for parents and grandparents who might be interested in climate change but who may feel as ove...

  • Growing Our Way Out of a Warming Climate

    Created: Thursday, 08 April 2010 10:53 Author: G J Lau
    Geoengineering as a solution to climate change begins with an acceptance of the idea that (a) climate change due to human-based activities is happening; and (b) we won't be able to reduce our outputs of greenhouses gases rapidly enough to avert major prob...

  • Paper or Plastic?

    Created: Tuesday, 06 April 2010 11:49 Author: G J Lau
    So my wife and I are back in Nag's Head North Carolina for our annual week's vacation here. We stopped at the Wal-Mart to pick up some supplies and immediately ran into some breaking news. Effective September 2009, North Carolina banned plastic bags in la...

  • Conservatives Will Never Solve Climate Change

    Created: Sunday, 04 April 2010 10:48 Author: G J Lau
    Anyone who follows the climate change debate knows that the divide between believers and non-believers tends to follow the same political fault lines that divide liberals and conservatives. I'm convinced that fundamental differences in the intellectual wi...