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The “Red Team, Blue Team” Climate Change Debate E. P. A. Chief Scott Pruitt Wanted, and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly Rejected, was Clarified in a 2011 Debate, and Eco and Political Situations Have Grown Much Worse
Click here for the 2011 debate. A New York Times article by LISA FRIEDMAN and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS reported yesterday “The E.P.A Chief Wanted a Climate Science Debate. Trump’s Chief of Staff Stopped Him.” United States’ leadership is the only leadership on Earth rejecting science that human-caused carbon is the main thing heating Earth and acidifying…
Is a human life worth $450 to you?
I went to hear “the Pope’s advisers” on climate change March 2 at a UCSD panel called “Climate Change. What Can Be Done About It?” attended by about a hundred students, professors, and concerned citizens. The advisers were Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dr.…
“climate and weather events displaced more than 1 million Americans from their homes last year”
I appreciated Rolling Stone contributing editor Jeff Goodell’s recent article from which the quote above was taken. The article “Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration” gives news that is needed. He is also the author of an interesting book The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World praised…
Four Horsemen of Distraction vs Peace Pilgrim
These are the Four Horsemen of Distraction: Stakeholders, Funding Sources, Constituencies, Agendas. Here is what Peace Pilgrim taught: “Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.” Choose. (The Peace Pilgrim link above is part of a film about her more than 25,000 mile walk for peace to prevent nuclear war. Instead of money, she carried…
Happer vs MacCracken
One of my longtime friends (47 years) sent me a Happer video disputing the ability of climate models “TO PREDICT THE FUTURE [overall] TEMPERATURE OF THE PLANET” due to too many variables, and too much unpredictability of direction over time. Happer used Hurricane Irma as an example, noting with just two days out, the forecast…
WTF (What the Fish?)
In case you missed it, here is what President Trump said Jan. 28, 2018, in an interview with Piers Morgan: “There is a cooling and there’s a heating—I mean, look, it used to not be climate change. It used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all…
“Rivers and Stories” by Robert Hass, and global oneness project
Today I read the excellent essay “Rivers and Stories” by Robert Hass. It was in my morning email from the global oneness project I subscribed to a few years ago. It came with the usual lesson plan for professors and teachers who care about human and nonhuman communities on spaceship Earth. The global oneness project is a…
Climate Activists Need Balance
For balance, I enjoy time with my wife, dog, rivers, world literature classes, and creative writing classes. Meditation, prayer, yoga, and Pacific Northwest hikes also help. Thanks to many recent visitors from Ukraine, Russia, South Korea, France, and Germany. Suz Toby Hidden River Two Days Ago