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This week's climate change brouhaha centers around remarks by Lord Stern, author of the influential 2006 Stern Review, on the impact of eating meat. This in turn aroused fears in certain quarters that those damned vegetarians were at it again, trying to i...
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The National Academy of Sciences recently published a study that estimated the reasonably achievable emission reductions from various actions that any one of us could do. Scaled up to the national level, the results were impressive: a potential 20 percent...
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Many people are still on the fence about climate change. Partly this is due to the steady chorus of doubt coming from those who either out of self-interest or principle prefer to believe that they really do live in a world where climate change is not happ...
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The recently published book “SuperFreakonomics,” written by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner, has caused a furor in the climate change community. Among other things, the authors assert that carbon emissions are not the problem and even if they are...
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The Pew Research Center for People and the Press released a major new study on American attitudes towards climate change. The percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising is at the lowest level in a decade...
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If you pinned your hopes on some sort of grand bargain coming out of Copenhagen, you might want to sit down. It's been a bad day. The European Union finance ministers can't or won't come up with the money to help the developing nations cope with climate c...
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Followers of the climate change debate know that both sides bring a lot of passion to the argument. Believers don't understand how the skeptics can just stand by and watch the planet circle the drain. They are convinced that most skeptics are unwitting to...
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I recently received a comment to the effect that an increase in carbon dioxide is beneficial to plants. Hell, even the desert is blooming, so what's the big deal.
Well, it's a big deal if you happen to end up on the dark side of this new Eden. Just ask t...
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Remember Alan Carlin? He was an EPA economist whose critical comments on a then proposed EPA finding that greenhouse gases endangered health and the environment were suppressed by the powers that be in the EPA.
When the story came out, he became the inst...
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Well, here we go again. The BBC published a story entitled "Whatever happened to Global Warming?" The article points out that global temperatures have not risen in the last 11 years despite increases in the levels of CO2. The inference is that we humans c...
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So what will it be like to live in a world that is undergoing dramatic climate change? Isn't that what we would like to be able to tell our children? Well, you don't really have to look all that far to start finding some answers.
Here is a typical assort...
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A lot of people think that global warming is a hoax. In some ways it would be nice to think they are right, but it would be prudent to have a Plan B just in case they aren't because as recent events are showing, taking collective action still takes a back...
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The New York Times blog Dot Earth has recently gotten caught up in a long-running debate that centers around hockey sticks and tree rings, amateurs and scientists, blogs and journals. I have alluded to the discussion in a previous post. It is way too conv...
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You can look for news on climate change and some days there is very little to work with and on other days you have an embarrassment of riches, so to speak. Today was one of those days when our news cup ranneth over. Whether the news is good or bad ... wel...
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Climate change is very complex and the science is still unfolding, leaving plenty of room for debate. But I have settled on the following three reasons to believe. Taken together, they have led me to an inescapable conclusion: Man-made emissions are forci...
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A recent post here on Planet Restart listed 10 reasons why climate change is a tough sell. One of the points raised was the difficulty in understanding and explaining climate change. A recent flurry of posting and cross-postings makes the point far better...
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I believe that climate change is THE single most important problem my children and grandchildren will face. Most of the world feels that way. Here in the United States, not so much. With apologies to David Letterman, I offer up 10 reasons why climate chan...
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