What Can You Do About Climate Change?
What can you do about climate change? This is an oft-asked question from the vast majority of American citizens increasingly concerned about the consequences of climate change. The transition away…
Author: David Guenette
Jake Bittle’s The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration Never Quite Arrives
When I review books, typically the books are climate fiction. Here, though, is a non-fiction climate change book review. I’ll confess this right up front in these thoughts on Jake…
The Long Road Ahead for Climate Progress… Starts with Voting
I keep coming back to why I am writing The Steep Clime Quartet book series. The answer I keep returning to is that I want to understand what climate change…
What’s Wrong with Touting America’s Fossil Fuel Extraction Success?
The debate about climate change in the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates is over: altogether, discussion about climate change and how to address climate change was weak. Weak, that it, unless…
True Confessions: It Has Been Two Months Since My Last Post
No, I’m not beating myself up (well, not badly, anyway), but the last couple of months have been interesting. Interesting as in the old Chinese proverbial curse, “May you live…
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…
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…