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In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

March 28, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the New Yorker, Bill McKibben wrote an essay titled “In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things” Here, he references many new reports which fortify the case for moving to renewable energy now and reinforcing the need to stop burning. On the last day of February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Finanace, Nuclear Industry, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: climate change, fossil fuel, IPCC, World On Fire

Paul Auerbach, pioneer of wilderness and disaster medicine, dies at 70

July 21, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In a Washington Post obituary, accomplishments and life of Dr. Paul Auerbach, pioneer of wilderness and disaster medicine, are detailed. Even with his extensive training in medical emergencies, Dr. Auerbach was unprepared for the devastation he encountered when he volunteered to travel to Haiti to care for victims of the earthquake that struck the Caribbean … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: climate change, Enviromedics, Human Health, Paul Auerbach, SEMPER, Stanford Emergency Medicine Program for Emergency Response, Wilderness Medical Society

The Shrinking Stratosphere

May 12, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Guardian, again, posts some good information about the Anthropocene effects on climate in Climate emissions shrinking the stratosphere, scientists reveal. Thinning indicates profound impact of humans and could affect satellites and GPS. Meanwhile, on the NYTimes, another study showing that the increase of CO2 is causing a thinning via loss of density in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Flying, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: 2021, age of plastics, Anthropocene, climate, climate change, climate models, CO2, emissions, GPS, greenhouse gases, ignorosphere, plastic age, radio communications, satellite operations, Space Junk, stratosphere, troposphere

How a Plan to Save the Power System Disappeared

August 30, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it. The Atlantic Story by Peter Fairley

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Future of Work, Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: 2018, Aaron Bloom, Alex Fitzsimmons, carbon policy, carbon pricing, Catherine “Katie” Jereza, Cathy Tripodi, Charles Koch, climate change, climate change deniers, coal, coal-industry, DOE, Interconnections Seam Study, Jereza, Joshua Novacheck, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, Paris climate-change agreement, power grids, power plants, Power System, Rick Perry, Seams, Secretary of Energy, The Grid, Tom Sloan, Tripodi, Trump administration, U.S. Department of Energy

PFAS – Trump administration threatens to give forever chemicals another reprieve

January 11, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Over at the website for the Union of Concerned Scientists, Kathleen Rest posted this “Profiles in Cowardice: Chemicals, Climate, and a Toxic Disregard by the Trump Administration” which is worth the time to read.

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: climate change, climate science, EPA, forever chemicals, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, Trump, UCS, Union of Concerned Scientists

The Observer: Climate change deniers’ new battle front attacked

November 10, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Observer: Climate change deniers’ new battle front attacked Robin McKie Science editor Sat 9 Nov 2019 ‘Pernicious’ campaign is unfair on well-meaning people who want to help – expert: The battle between climate change deniers and the environment movement has entered a new, pernicious phase. That is the stark warning of one of the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Politics, Science Tagged: atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change, climate change deniers, environment movement, fossil fuel emissions, fossil fuel industry, Global Warming, Michael Mann

Opinion: How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

November 9, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios. New York Times By Eugene Linden Nov. 8, 2019 So far, the costs of underestimation have been enormous. New York City’s subway system did not flood in its first 108 years, but Hurricane Sandy’s 2012 storm surge caused nearly … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: climate change, climate science, glaciers, Hurricanes, permafrost, Wallace Broecker, Younger Dryas

Attribution Science

October 22, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

An in-depth article in the Oct 22, 2019 Politico magazine on the emerging science of attribution: The new science fossil fuel companies fear – Researchers can now link weather events to emissions – and to the companies responsible. A string of lawsuits is about to give “attribution science” a real-life test – by ZACK COLMAN … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: American Metereological Society, attribution science, climate change, emissions, Exxon Mobil, fossil fuel industry, fossil fuels, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Sandy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Academy of Sciences, post-Industrial Revolution, Richard Heede, World Weather Attribution group

Geoengineering – ICE911

September 30, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From Mather Jones, September 26, 2019, Arctic Ice Is Melting Faster Than Expected. These Scientists Have a Radical Idea to Save It. Costly and controversial, yes. But we may be running out of choices. “We’re getting much more attention because of how dire thing are,” says inventor and engineer Leslie Field, founder of Ice911, a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: climate, climate change, geoengineering, Global Warming, Ice911, Inupiaq, sea level rise

Goldilock’s Range – from The Uninhabitable Earth

May 7, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells: Page 42: This (environmental warmth) is among the things cosmologists mean when they talk about the utter improbability of anything as advanced as human intelligence evolving anywhere in a universe as inhospitable to life as this one; every uninhabitable planet out there is a reminder of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: climate change, climate equilibrium, David Wallace-Wells, Global Warming, Goldilocks, temperatures, Uninhabitable Earth, Warming
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