concern about climate change does not automatically translate into lifestyle changesIt's that "collective irresponsibility" problem I've mentioned before -- your own behaviors aren't enough to fix the climate, and you receive zero positive reinforcement from the environment with respect to your own behaviors. No matter what *you* do, the problem ( Read more... )

And I'm moving toward the conclusion of this particular set of essays, which have a lot to do with my attending Blerdcon -- and my attending a particular panel at Blerdcon ( Read more... )

Everybody is now downplaying the chance that levees will be overtopped in New Orleans, that's good. But Barry is going to move north slowly, dragging up to 25 inches of rain into parts of Louisiana, and then tracking up the Mississippi River, dragging along up to 10 inches of rain as far north as Tennessee ( Read more... )

The last time I looked into carbon offsets, several years ago, there was an international charity that offered "population offsets". Each person, just by being alive, consumes goods and services that result in CO2 emissions -- especially people living in advanced economies like the US. By providing assistance to women who need contraception or ( Read more... )

A global survey for 2016 found that only 0.2% of the world's annual CO2 emissions are voluntarily offset via the purchase of so-called "carbon offsets ( Read more... )

https://www.people-press.org/2019/01/24/publics-2019-priorities-economy-health-care-education-and-security-all-near-top-of-list/Read more... )

"Climate change is not so much an emergency as a festering injustice. Our ancestors did not end slavery by declaring an emergency and dreaming up artificial boundaries on 'tolerable' slave numbers," says climate scientist Myles Allen. "They called it out for what it was."

I'm taking a work trip to Chicago later this year. I was wondering whether it would be cheaper to take a bus than to fly -- nope, costs about the same or even less to fly than to take a bus. And those 20-hour bus rides are no fun, versus a 2-hour plane ride ( Read more... )

coal plants emitted more CO2 than ever in 2018https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/03/26/blow-climate-coal-plants-emitted-more-than-ever/Read more... )

"This isn't science fiction. It isn't even stuff I've come up with myself. I'm just summarizing sentence-by-sentence the scientific work of others."