Ever since Germany’s announcement that it will go coal-free by 2022, one question keeps popping up in my head: Will mighty Germany be the first developed economy to commit energy suicide? Earlier this year, Germany announced that it will close all of its 84 coal-fired power plants by 2038. Ronald Pofalla, chairman of the government […]
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My cousin in California is excited about buying a Tesla. “It is environmentally friendly” he says. Maybe you agree. My friends in India, too, are excited about buying electric cars. They think doing so will help them prevent global warming. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Almost every environmental policy now makes reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions,
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For many of us Millennials, especially in densely populated developing countries like India and China, it was a no-brainer. Population growth was the world’s biggest problem. At least, so we learned in our schools. But as we grew into our 20s, the focus of the world turned more toward climate change. Was population growth really
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The 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change was scheduled to take place in Brazil this year. Not anymore. Brazil pulled out. Brazil once offered to host this year’s Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week. It just withdrew the offer. Brazil has also declined an invitation to attend the
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Why aren’t you seeing or hearing good news about the environment on your news apps and primetime news? If you think it’s because there isn’t any, think again. There’s lots. But environmentalists and the mainstream media (MSM) constantly focus on whatever bad news they can find—even if they have to exaggerate or manufacture it.
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I believe the future of energy is nuclear. Many others do, too. Despite the unfounded fears surrounding their safety, almost all major economies in the world have embraced nuclear technology with both arms. Here is a look at the current nuclear energy scenario and recent developments that offer a hope of a bright and secure
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I was born through a mother. So were you. But even as I was wishing a happy Mother’s Day to folks yesterday, a primetime news headline on CNN’s international website caught my eyes: “There was no hope.” CNN’s Attack on Mother’s Day The article talked of the difficulty in getting an abortion in Italy. CNN followed that with an article reporting on
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For many people today, humanity’s biggest moral failure is that we are destroying our environment. Nations that took part in the Industrial Revolution (those that conquered poverty long before others) get the lion’s share of the blame. High on the list of their crimes is air pollution. Soot- and smog-filled skies are an affront to
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The hate level on Twitter can far exceed any other on social media. But many sane, civilized, intelligent people on Twitter continue to make our world a better place. They share ideas and communicate life-altering, life-saving information to the larger public. Twitter also provides a platform to engage with peers. As a climate researcher, I
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Politicians who favor policies to fight global warming that will impose big costs on consumers might take a lesson from what’s happening in Canada. The Trudeau government imposed a new carbon tax on its citizens effective April 1, 2019. (Yes, indeed, April Fool’s Day!) But it faces legal challenges in the provinces of Ontario, Saskatchewan,
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