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How a Professional Climate Change Denier Discovered the Lies and Decided to Fight for Science
Read the full article at The Intercept. The hardest part of reversing the warming of the planet may be convincing climate change skeptics of the need to do so. Although scientists who study the issue overwhelming agree that the earth is undergoing rapid and profound climate changes due to the burning of fossil fuels, […]
Property Values Will Go “Underwater” Before Going Under Water
Read the entire article at John Englander. How long before a particular coastal area goes ‘underwater’ is a question I get asked all the time. I like to explain that there are essentially three ways that property will go underwater: temporarily, permanently, or figuratively in anticipation of actual flooding. The temporary flooding is most dramatic, like the typical […]
Apple’s Ambitious Recycled Materials Goal
Read the full article at Triple Pundit. Electronic waste, commonly called e-waste, is a big problem. Over 20 million tons of e-waste are produced annually, around 3.4 million tons of which hail from the U.S. According to iFixit, e-waste in the U.S. alone would weigh more than the combined weight of every living blue whale. […]
When Rising Seas Transform Risk into Certainty
When Elisa Staton found a small house a block from the water in Larchmont-Edgewater in 2005, she was thinking of the neighborhood’s grand trees and Tudor-style houses, of the elementary school she hoped to send her kids to, once she had them. She wasn’t thinking much about flooding, though she knew the house was in […]
Federal Utility CEO: Coal plants not reopening under Trump
The CEO of the nation’s biggest public utility said Tuesday that the agency isn’t going to reopen coal-fired power plants under President Donald Trump, who has promised a comeback for the downtrodden coal industry. Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Bill Johnson said he thinks very little will actually change for the federal utility under Trump. TVA […]
Sea Level Rise Refugees
Coastal city residents are not the only people who should be directly concerned about climate change driven sea level rise. With a displacement number as high as 13.1 million people, we must logically think about where those sea level rise refugees will go. And according to a recently published study in Nature, Atlanta, Houston and […]
Saving Seeds for an Uncertain Climate
An organization in California is preserving unusual varieties of fruits and vegetables that might flourish in a warmer climate. When Rowen White was 17 she started working on an organic farm. And she discovered that there was more to the world of fruits and vegetables than what’s for sale in most supermarkets. White: “We […]
Google ‘Street View’ Cars Hunt for Methane
Google gathers images for its street view application by sending cars with cameras to drive through cities and towns. Karin Tuxen-Bettman of Google says some of these cars have been given an additional mission. “While the street view car’s driving around capturing 360-degree imagery of all the public roads it drives on, it’s also capturing methane […]
One Silver Lining to Sea Level Rise
This is the one silver lining of our predicament: If we get adaptation right, we’ll not only preserve our cities – we’ll upgrade them. Global-warming denialists, including, at times, the new US president, claim that climate change isn’t happening. This is abject nonsense – ask anyone who lives near an ocean. They’re all dealing with […]
A German Village Generates 500% More Energy Than It Needs
Wildpoldsried, a Bavarian village of about 2,600 residents, is leading the way in Germany’s extraordinary renewable energy transformation. Over the past 18 years, the village has invested in a holistic range of renewable energy projects that include 4,983 kWp of photovoltaics, five biogas facilities, 11 wind turbines and a hydropower system. As a result, the […]
