A year ago, I published an article on the then-most-recent warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the rapidly increasing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in out planet’s atmosphere. Concentrations were nearing 400 parts per million (ppm)…
Category: Greenhouse gas emissions
Ontario electricity and ocean acidification: fighting carbon with nuclear power
The acidity of the world’s oceans has since the Industrial Revolution increased by 30 percent, according to the U.S. National Atmospheric and Ocean Administration (NOAA). This is because the Industrial Revolution introduced machine power to human civilization; and machines multiplied,…
IPCC, meet Johannes Kepler: like you, he faced dogma, peer pressure, and criticism. Here’s how he responded
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this week published the contribution of another Working Group to its Assessment Report 5. This WG, WG3 to be precise, reviewed literature on the “scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of…
Don’t be depressed over the latest IPCC report, just learn the lesson: we CAN live well and prosper, cleanly
The IPCC at the end of March issued another report warning of the serious consequences of untrammeled dumping of man-made carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere. Read the report, and it’s hard not to come away under a pall of…
Electrifying transportation: easy policy, local politics
Like politics, all environmentalism is local. It’s the actions you take as you go about your day that determine the balance in your own personal carbon account with Mother Earth. Fortunately, it is actually very easy, thanks to actions taken…