Share List To say that climate change is responsible for the recent string of tropical storms that have come into existence throughout the Atlantic Ocean would be an obvious inaccuracy. Tropical storms, as well as other devastating natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes, blizzards, and so on – they have all been recognized as parts … [Read more…]
Share List When the recent series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey aired on Fox in 2014, Neil deGrasse Tyson, a criminal lawyer, likened climate change to a man walking his dog. The man represented the changing climate, while the dog represented the daily weather. A lot of people get caught up watching the dog and lose … [Read more…]
Share List When we think of climate change, we usually think of how it affects the air we breathe or the overall temperature. A lot of us foolishly deny it’s even happening, or how humans have increased the rate at which it is happening. Even so, there’s a huge part of climate change that often … [Read more…]
Share List Whether you are a believer in climate change as man-made or just part of a natural cycle, the current climate is different than a few thousand years ago, and a few thousand years before that. And during these periods of warmer and colder temperatures and more and less violent weather, there has always … [Read more…]
Share List There is little question that the earth is undergoing some climate change. The big debate that seems to rage is whether this is man-made or whether it’s part of the natural cycle of Earth, which has undergone various cycles of warming and cooling over millions of years. But what isn’t debated is that … [Read more…]
Share List No, it’s not the unknown, never-released follow-up album to “Purple Rain” by the late, great Prince. For a while in the 1970s and 80s, one could say that it was the only precipitation that fell from the sky in the industrialized world – at least, that was much of the belief in some … [Read more…]
Share List Most people who dismiss these types of renewable technologies do so not because they believe they aren’t important, but because they don’t understand the rate of advancement or even how they work. For example, a lot of people say that solar panels will never truly take over for coal and oil because the … [Read more…]
Share List A lot of people still haven’t jumped on the renewable energy bandwagon, and that might be okay. Although the technology is definitely coming around, it still has a long way to go–even if it represents a shocking rate of growth and provides a superior number of jobs than coal or oil do. Futurist … [Read more…]
Share List When a scientist states that climate change has been abrupt, they are not necessarily talking about something that occurs over a couple months or years. They have been monitoring the climate for over a century, and based upon that data, they can see that this change is happening now at an accelerated rate. … [Read more…]
Share List One of the reasons that many people deny that climate change is happening, especially in regard to global warming, is that we are still seeing a dramatic amount of snowfall. In places like North America where snow has been falling very lightly, the recent increase in snowfall as prompted climate change skeptics to … [Read more…]