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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

Snips of Passing Interests

The Climate Crisis is Now Widely Accepted, But Will This Translate into Votes to Take Action?

Here’s an interesting piece, from Medium’s George Dillard (The New Climate): “The Next Climate Perception Battle: Americans now accept climate change — but they still need a more complete understanding”…

By David GuenetteFebruary 1, 2024February 1, 2024Leave a comment
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A Decade’s Worth of Growing Concern: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Poll Shows That Most People Want More Climate Change-related News

An article published by Covering Climate Now, January 4, 2024, reports on the latest study from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, an effort widely considered “the gold standard”…

By David GuenetteJanuary 4, 2024Leave a comment
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The Biggest Threat to Climate Progress is How Stupid We Can Be When We Write About It

I have a problem. I’m curious and eager to learn, but I’ve a deadly addiction. That addiction—deadly, I guess, only in so far as it often results in my wanting…

By David GuenetteDecember 23, 2023January 4, 2024Leave a comment
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Who is Lying? Those Who Say Fossil Fuel Companies Engage in Misinformation and Influence Campaigns against Renewable Energy, or Those Who Say Renewable Energy Advocates Have Pants on Fire?

Let me answer this obviously rhetorical question right up front: it is the fossil fuels industry that is a goddam liar. This conclusion isn’t a matter of cherry-picking information. Various internal…

By David GuenetteNovember 2, 2023September 6, 2025Leave a comment
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Done with Doomers

Perhaps I suffer from an undiagnosed case of an undesignated condition of climate anxiety. In Kill Well, the first book in my climate fiction series The Steep Climes Quartet, such…

By David GuenetteOctober 11, 2023Leave a comment
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The Fossil Fuel Industry is Our Enemy

There are many hundreds of thousands of Americans who make their living in work related to fossil fuels, and I’m not thinking of any of these as enemies.  Heck, one…

By David GuenetteOctober 10, 2023Leave a comment
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Investing or Resting? The Inflation Reduction Act is Going Slow, at Least at the State Level

In my climate activist work, I’ve been trying to help others in my region learn about the potential direct and personal benefits the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act may hold for…

By David GuenetteOctober 1, 2023Leave a comment
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Here’s a Good Bet: Our Climate Future Will Fall Somewhere Between Excessive Optimism and Unseemly Doom

“Incredibly, we’re on track to 0.5C above pre-industrial by around 2050,” published in Medium on August 27, by Paul Pallaghy, is the sort of headline I would like to see…

By David GuenetteSeptember 1, 2023September 1, 2023Leave a comment
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Fossil Fuels in Hot Water

Well, one can hope that at a minimum, when I say hot water, I’m talking about legal liabilities the fossil fuel industry may face for being, well, lying sons of…

By David GuenetteAugust 31, 2023August 31, 2023Leave a comment
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Hurricane Modeling? More, Please, Sir

Dr. Ryan Truchelut’s Weathertiger’s Hurricane Watch, on Substack, published “Atlantic’s Next Top Model: Hurricane Watch Weekly Column for July 11th,” and I found this column very interesting. This particular column…

By David GuenetteAugust 17, 2023Leave a comment

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The Steep Climes Quartet
  • Kirkus Weighs In On Over Brooklyn Hills
  • An Everyman: I Get to Think Further About Over Brooklyn Hills
  • Another Review of Over Brooklyn Hills
  • Another Editorial Review of Over Brooklyn Hills
  • Booklife Review of Over Brooklyn Hills
  • Over Brooklyn Hills is Now Available
  • Climate Fiction Featuring Far Futures, Dystopia, Fantasies, and Other Simplified Worlds, is Simply Much Easier to Write
  • The World of Amazon Publishing and the Hoops a Publisher Jumps Through to Participate in the World of Amazon Publishing
  • The Challenge of Conveying Climate Change Information in Climate Fiction
  • Writing the Future of Climate Change

Other Writing
  • There Can Be a Tax on Taxonomical Confusion
  • Reviewing Reviews, or The Strange Little Business of Feeding the Marketing of Novels
  • What is Climate Fiction?
  • A Fantastic Essay about Climate Fiction but Still a Lot of Fantasy
  • Clean Tech/Fossil-Free Funds Can Make A Difference

Snips of Passing Interests
  • In Defense of Group 2
  • The Short-term Costs of Clean Energy and the Long-term Affordability Advantages
  • Let’s Do Anti-AI Backlash Right
  • Oil War and Counter-War on Oil
  • The Architecture of Obstruction
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