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After the Tipping Point
Bill McKibben recently spoke on the PBS podcast, “The United States of Anxiety.” We have passed the tipping point on climate change but there is much we can still do to address climate change and avert unmitigated disaster. You can…
Read MoreUsing Bureaucracy
When Vice News interviewed the mayor of an Oregon town that lost a third of its housing to last year’s wildfires, the mayor offered the following sentiment. She was asked if encouraging people to return was a good idea with…
Read MoreIPCC Report is a Potent Tool
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released this week and the media acts surprised by the dire warnings, blaring that the red alerts and apocalyptic alarms are sounding. They did until Governor Cuomo resigned the next day over…
Read MoreThe Phony Cry of Doomerism
The reports from the field observations on climate are returning with ever worsening reports, as predicted. Heat absorption, the Arctic and Antarctica, mounting land degradation tallies are ticking upward, which again, were explicated in the climate models. Last week, Greenpeace…
Read MoreNY Times offers kid’s book on climate change
This one is a must see: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/18/climate/climate-change-future-kids.html
Read MoreYou (You kindhearted soul) Are The Target
The competent magician compels the audience to turn their attention elsewhere while the switch is made, seemingly unseen. Magicians are Old School though, because entire industries have adopted the mechanism of deception as their entire public relations strategy. The tobacco…
Read MoreJews, Politics, Australia
Should Jews be involved in climate politics? As Australia burns with the worst wildfires on record at the start of the fire season, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accused detractors of being members of “a climate cult.” When he…
Read MoreThe Moral Decrepitude of ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil has released its strategy for the coming decades, up through 2040. The company expects no reduction in carbon pollution because it plans to continue building fossil fuel infrastructure. At this moment, they are investing billions of dollars in building…
Read MoreWhere do you bank?
Are you giving carte blanche to your bank to not only to continue to pollute the world, but actually increase the rate of carbon pollution? Where does your synagogue or organization bank? It is your money; use it wisely: Financing…
Read More1966, Coal Industry knew about Climate Change
A recently discovered journal form 1966 has a article from a coal research firm on the projected effects of burning coal. The article correctly predicts the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and effects that we are experiencing today….
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