Environment (2012-2015)

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Spinning Hot Air — Illusionist John Kerry Did His Soothing Warm Blather Dance — with the Coldly Pithy Climate Scientist, James Hansen (15 December 2015)

 

Jess Zimmerman’s Darkly Delicious Pseudo-Conspiracy Theory about the Ultra Rich Leaving the Planet(18 September 2015)

 

Brock Sarbeck’s Photo of Three 737 Fuselages Derailed into Montana’s Clark Fork River — Says Pretty Much All that Needs to Be Said about Incompetent American Railroading (06 July 2014)

 

Absurd Twists of Modern American Life — 5,893 Natural Gas Pipeline Leaks Found in the District of Columbia — and a Comparative Risk Imagining that May Come True (16 January 2014)

 

Making Elephants Extinct this Decade — Just because Humans Are Greedy and Dumb — Zac Goldsmith’s Article in Britain’s The Independent (20 December 2013)

 

Amazon Dot Com Delivery by Drone? — A Comment on Stupidity’s Inability to Think Even One Step Forward (02 December 2013)

 

A Psychological Study about the Effects of Inter-Generational Economic Discounting — Not Surprisingly Demonstrates that We Are Not Going to Do Anything about Global Warming — We Cynics Are Probably Correct in Our Gloomy Predictions (25 October 2013)

 

On the Importance of Semantics in Framing an Argument — James Painter in Regard to Reframing the Foolish Public Dispute over What Is Causing Climate Change — and a Comment on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Inept Communication Style (04 October 2013)

 

The United States’ Business as Usual Model often Takes Chances with the Environment — Sometimes in Subtly Dangerous Ways — Take the USDA and EPA’s Disingenuous Non-Response to Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder and Neonicotinoid Pesticides — an Insight into Our Frequently Shared Motivation to Conceal Worrisome Information (03 May 2013)

 

Not a Peep from the Lamestream Media, when the Obama Administration Leased California BLM Land for Oil Fracking — without Proper Environmental Review (10 April 2013)

 

Monsanto’s Reported Ability to Influence Senator Roy Blunt into Doing Its Dirty Work Exemplifies How Rotten Congress Is — Section 735 of the Newly Signed Appropriations Act (HR 933) Deprives the Judiciary of Its Power to Protect both Environment and Public Health against GMOs Gone Awry (04 April 2013)

 

Two Years after the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor Meltdowns — the Prefecture’s Forests Are Radioactive — a Very Short Video Shows the Impact of Corporate Greed and Complicit Governmental Malfeasance on Ordinary People (10 March 2013)

 

The Global Carbon Budget 2012 Report Shows How Pollution-Shifting from Developed Nations to Poorer Nations Makes China Look Bad — and Why American “Holier than Thou” Carbon Emissions Non-Policy Is Hypocritical (03 December 2012)

 

PricewaterhouseCoopers Brings a Dose of Global Warming Reality to Practically Minded Business People — Paraphrased, “It’s Happening Rapidly, We Aren’t Doing Anything, So Prepare Your Infrastructures for a 6 Degree Celsius Warming by 2100” (05 November 2012)

 

How Is It that, with Years of Warning, Two Major New York City Hospitals Could Not Keep their Emergency Generators Running during Hurricane Sandy? — Denial Explains Complacence in regard to Sea Level Rises and an Increasingly Dynamic Atmosphere (01 November 2012)

 

Would You Jump to Policy Conclusions in regard to Reducing Coastal Air Pollution — Based on a Study of Only 2 Ships? (25 October 2012)

 

Way Better than a Zoo — Female Big Horn Sheep on Mount Shavano, Colorado (21 August 2012)

 

Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone Article about Global Warming Is an Outstanding Summary of One Perspective — but It (Understandably) Blames the Wrong People for the Crux of the Problem (13 August 2012)

 

Waldo Canyon Fire Sky — Sunset, 27 June 2012 (28 June 2012)

 

Waldo Canyon Fire, Colorado Springs  — Evening, 26 June 2012 — a Wind-Aided Inferno Sprinted into the City — and the Simultaneous Demonstration of the Value of Competent Government (27 June 2012)

 

Waldo Canyon Fire, as Seen from Peterson Air Force Base — Sunset, 25 June 2012 — Given the Cyclical Long-Term Return of Southwestern U.S. Drought, Will this Burned Forest Ecology Regenerate? (26 June 2012)

 

High Human Population Numbers Guarantee Problems with the Biosphere — Obvious Concept, yet the Overwhelming Majority of People and Policy-Makers Ignore It — an Illustrative Example Provided by Dying Cape Cod Salt Marshes (12 June 2012)

 

Creative Thinking from Toyota — Temporarily Powering Your Home’s Electrical Needs from Your Electric or Hybrid Car (06 June 2012)

 

Absolutely First Class Photo Journalism from Robert Johnson — regarding Alberta’s Tar Sands Oil Extraction — this Business Insider Article Should Be an Award Winner (23 May 2012)

 

A Little Common Sense Is Not Out of Place, Even in Climatology — Why MIT’s Global Warming Contrarian, Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Is Probably Wrong (09 May 2012)

 

Global Warming Made Visible — Some Broods of Mountain Pine Beetles Are Now Breeding Twice a Year, with a Presumably Much Worsened Effect on Western U.S. Forests (01 May 2012)

 

An Effective Animation of Global Temperature Change over the Last Century from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies — and Comments on the Art of Graphic and Animated Science Data Presentation in an Anti-Scientific Culture (28 January 2012)

 

Keystone XL Oil Sands Pipeline — Al Jazeera’s Impartial Interview of Three Experts with Different Perspectives — and President Obama’s Game-Playing Hypocrisy (20 January 2012)