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Category Archives: Climate Change
Are The Walls Closing In?
Somehow you can just feel it. I don’t want to get too optimistic, but as we see the extreme radical right continuing to overstep the bounds of democracy we are also seeing a backlash especially among the young folks who … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, economic inequality, Economy, gun control, Republican Policy
Tagged autocracy, Elections
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Long Term Prospects
Wisconsin had an election to chose a member of their Supreme Court. Since it was a statewide election Republicans could not gerrymander districts such that even if they lost the vote they could still win the election by districts. In … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged democracy, Gen Z, gun violence, Millenials, Protasiewicz, Wisconsin Supreme Court election
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Absurd? Yes!
Greta Thunberg: It’s ‘absurd’ that we think the oil companies causing the climate crisis have a solution to it From Marketwatch: Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, age 20 and arguably the face of a generation that wants to roll back … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Exxon climate predictions, Exxon Mobil, greed, Greta Thunberg
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Climate And Insurance: The Bill Is Coming Due
I was talking with a close friend in the insurance industry over the weekend. She was relating some information she had heard at a seminar she attended. It seems that the re-insurance companies are seeing their losses due to extreme … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change
Tagged climate change responsibility, climate lawsuit, oil company responsibility
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Thanks, Kids
As I write this we still don’t know who will be in power in Congress. Will Democrats retain control of the US House? Will they retain leadership in the US Senate? Or will the extremist Republican Party take control of … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Climate Change, firearms, gun control, Health Care & Medicare, Republican Policy, womens rights
Tagged abortion, race, younger voters skew democratic
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Major Storm Coming?
This is a kind of stream of consciousness that has been floating in my mind all morning. Feels like the only way I can get rid of it is to put it down on paper. It is finally looking like … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2022 Election campaign, Climate Change, Economy
Tagged Putin, Russian draft, Trump, Ukraine
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Climate The Overriding Issue
From the headline on msn.com Thursday: 2021 saw record-high greenhouse gases, sea levels and ocean heat, new report shows When you turn on the news today, after you get by the stories of our former treasonous president, there are the … Continue reading
Climate Predictions Turn Into Reality
Wildfires across Europe including Britain as the continent faces the hottest temperatures ever recorded. Record temperatures in China and India. Wildfires across North America in the face of the record temperatures. We were warned – over and over and over. … Continue reading
Webinar: Burn Hydrogen At Home?
Why in the world should we be concerned about hydrogen? The answer comes from utility companies and can be summed up in two words: hydrogen blending. Gas companies across the country are proposing to blend hydrogen gas with methane to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged #ActOnClimate, climate change, Hydrogen, Natural Gas, public health
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Crops in Northwest Iowa Suffer Due to Drought
Photo credit: Josie Taylor | July 6, 2022. This is the second in our July series called Feature Friday. Iowa Environmental Focus, a product of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) at the University of Iowa, is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change
Tagged #ActOnClimate, climate change, climate crisis, Iowa agriculture, The Climate Reality Project
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