If Trump Doesn’t Kill the Fight Against Climate Change, Then Maybe Capitalism Will
Just recently I wrote a post titled “The Truth Will Out” that carried the deck, “Trump’s Reactionary Stance on Clean Energy May be Little More than a Small Bump on…
Category: Snips of Passing Interests
Climate fiction, climate crisis, media critiques, and the business of culture are all subjects that I try to follow and I’m trying to develop the habit of noting particularly interesting pieces—articles, blogs, news—I come across
The Truth Will Out
Trump’s Reactionary Stance on Clean Energy May be Little More than a Small Bump on the Road to Clean Energy Transition, because Fossil Fuels are Very Expensive Like vast numbers…
My Leading Climate Change Online Resources
I’ve been making a list and checking it twice, and then don’t you know The New York Times comes out with something akin to what I’m working on, so what,…
Sally Rooney on Working Inside or Outside Our Political Systems… and a Nice Tip ‘O the Cap to Soil from Sally Morgan
According to Wikipedia, Sally Rooney, a writer of novels—Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), and Intermezzo (2024)—was named by Time magazine in 2022…
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…
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…
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…