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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

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
Snips of Passing Interests

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
Snips of Passing Interests

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
Snips of Passing Interests

Covering the Climate Crisis Like War, with Oil in the Crosshairs

I was reading an article in Heated, published on July 11, 2023, with the provocative title “Oil Companies Are Laughing While the World Burns.” Arielle Samuelson and Emily Atkin are…

By David GuenetteJuly 30, 2023July 30, 2023Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

Why, Oh Why? The Doomer Dance and Other Annoyances

Many titles on the lists I get from Medium grab attention, and some grab better than others. Unfortunately, the doomer-inflected article titles seem better suited as flags for my attention,…

By David GuenetteJuly 28, 2023Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

We Love Cheap Gas

Yes, the headline here qualifies as a truism, which means that the claim is so obvious as to not be questioned. Even climate change activists—at least most of us—like cheap…

By David GuenetteJuly 24, 2023Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

Coal In Your Stocking

In my ongoing survey of who is writing what about climate change, I find myself stopped by what might be called “clickbait” titles, including a doozy from Will Lockett, who…

By David GuenetteJuly 23, 2023Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

The High Cost of Extreme Summer Heat

At present, heatwaves are the topic du jour, and exactly because the heatwaves continue from day to day, and now week to week, and across a third of America’s population,…

By David GuenetteJuly 21, 2023Leave a comment
News, Snips of Passing Interests

Goddam the Bogeyman

This morning, as I’m sipping my first (of many) cups of coffee, I came across two articles from writers using Medium as a publishing platform, and the two are especially…

By David GuenetteJuly 20, 2023Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

Climate Resilience, Migration and Cities

I’ve been using Medium as one mechanism to catch interesting climate crisis related content. It didn’t take me long to figure out that reviewing the results could be a full-time…

By David GuenetteJuly 20, 2023July 20, 2023Leave a comment

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