Hannah Ritchie Deserves to be Heard. I Just Wish She Would Say More
“It’s become strangely normal to tell out kids that they’re going to die from climate change.” This is how Hannah Ritchie begins her TED Talk given in April 2023. That’s…
Author: David Guenette
On Saturday, August 10, 2024, at the Bushnell-Sage Library (Sheffield), David Guenette will be giving a talk about what Berkshirites can expect in the next three decades from climate change
I’m giving a talk about what we can expect in the Berkshires—weather-wise and economically, socially, and politically—as climate change continues to develop. Not surprisingly, the presentation’s title is “The Future…
Statistics, Damned Statistics, and Common Sense
I’m a fan of Roger Pielke, Jr., which may put me on the wrong side of some climate change ideologues, but then, being on the wrong side of most any…
Climate Change or just Tough Weather? It Doesn’t Matter
One kind of climate change post I’ve been seeing is the science claim that we can’t assign any particular weather event to climate change. This is a valid conclusion and…
Bryce and His Snow Job: Apparently, Climate Change Action is the Work of Anti-Math Nincompoops and Elite Conspiracists
Oops, he did it again. I’m referring to Robert Bryce, who writes a Susbstack about energy and economic fairness—a great topic, by the way, if only he would actually address…
One Presidential Candidate Works to Cool Down the Danger of Global Warming, while the Other Throws Gas on the Fire
Elections matter, although as a review of American history will show, sometimes elections don’t matter all that much. The 2024 election, on the other hand, is very much in the…
Robert Bryce’s Anti-Environmental Pro-Renewable Energy Transition NGOs Argument is a No Go Argument
“Environmentalism in America is dead. It has been replaced by climatism and renewable energy fetishism.” So says Robert Bryce, supposed climate change realist, in a recent Substack piece titled “Environmentalism…
Bryce Hyped Focus
It’s too easy to find writing online that is either unintentionally poorly thought out or intentionally rhetorically abusive, and when it comes to issues related to climate change, one of…
Climate Doom? Apocalyptic Optimism? Climate Change Catastrophe? Hope!
A couple of articles recently caught my eye, probably because I keep an eye out for Doomer-talk, which I think is at best an unhelpful surrender of hope for addressing…
Pay Now, Pay Later, or Really Pay Much More Later
There’s good news, some not so great news, and some really bad news when it comes to the climate crisis. The good news is that people are doing things to…