A catastrophic landslide created a dam across the Columbia River in 1450.
Month: July 2020
Ecosystem migration and evolution
Ecosystem evolution is the critical threat Anthropocene climate change brings.
A carbon tax on gasoline: good, bad, or just ugly
Joe Biden’s climate plan proposes carbon pricing, but the details on what this actually means have not been forthcoming. One possibility is a cap-and-trade pricing mechanism, but the other alternative is a traditional carbon tax. So, what are the advantages of one over the other? We can examine that against some unconventional measures: obscurity and Read More…
Time dampens the urgency of climate change
People recognize the climate change threat intellectually but not emotionally
Electricity, a pressure point for mitigating climate change
Clean electricity is a vital pressure point for change, so arrange your priorities and then vote for the future you envision.
Methane turbocharges global warming
Methane turbocharges global warming and poses trouble for efforts to mitigate climate change.
Electricity, a pressure point for mitigating climate change (Part 2)
Mitigating climate change must come through the ballot box.
Electricity, a pressure point for mitigating climate change (Part 1)
Voters can mandate clean energy through the ballot box.
Wired for survival, not climate change
(First of the Climate Change Conundrum papers) Humans possess genetic wiring attuned to survival. Before our distant ancestors’ ascendancy over the natural environment, daily survival was the key theme of life. Humans adapted themselves to the seasons because hunting, and later farming, depended on planning, lest they starve during the winters. Less energy was devoted Read More…
Wired for survival, not climate change (Part 2)
What will humanity do to mitigate the environmental, and social dislocation that climate change brings