[A sample Bug post about climate change from 2007]About 20 years ago, I came out to my grandfather. From 3912 miles away. Via a letter. Weeks later his snail-mail response arrived: He advised me to give up this "dirty habit", as though I were smoking tobacco ( Read more... )

I was a climate change skeptic until sometime in 2007. Back then I said things like, "The climate has always been changing, we just didn't have the instrumentation to measure climate change until now. So calm down."

Which, yeah, the climate has always been changing ... but then I would also say I was skeptical that humans were changing the ( Read more... )

With K living on the west coast and being more of a night person, sometimes I wake to find a series of texts from him. Last night he texted me about a group of climate protesters who attempted to disrupt a tennis match at the US Open. [I also follow a local climate protest group on Twitter that occasionally blocks traffic ( Read more... )

Two stories yesterday, one from Hawaii and one from DC, one about wildfires and one about floods, both described people's dogs dying from the exponentially growing effects of climate change ( Read more... )

"The typical area burned by wildfires in Hawaii has increased in recent decades, almost quadrupling."Yup, scientists have modeled the effect of increasing temperature on wildfires and they found for every degree Celsius we will quadruple the amount of wildfires. So with the next degree Celsius, we will have 16x the amount of wildfires we had two ( Read more... )

Overall, oil and gas companies are projected to spend more than $500 billion this year on identifying, extracting and producing new oil and gas supplies.

Absent major policy changes, the I.E.A. projects that oil and gas use will continue rising through the end of the decade.

As scientists tell us that the globe is experiencing its highest-ever recorded average temperatures this month, and as Democrats congratulate themselves for having enacted hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies for renewable energy, the US fossil fuel industry continues to expand. May 2023 (the most recent statistics we have) was a new all- ( Read more... )

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/fire-in-paradise/Read more... )

Prof Matthew England, an oceanographer and climate scientist at the University of New South Wales:

“Remember our world is 70% covered by ocean. It should have been called Ocean, not Earth ( Read more... )

it's already available on streaming I'm watching it again, it's that good,

I'm upgrading to A+