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Even his wife Melania is lost for words to explain this most powerful man in the world trolling a 16-year-old girl. Then again, she knows best that this is just what Donald does even when he’s trying to “Be Best”: ‘So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good… Read more.
Coldplay will not go on a world tour to promote its latest album, citing environmental concerns. The British band said it won’t tour again until the shows can be done in a sustainable way. ‘We would be disappointed if it’s not carbon neutral,’ frontman Chris Martin told BBC News Thursday. (CBS News, November 22, 2019)… Read more.
I watch Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday mornings, religiously. You’d be hard-pressed to find a show that presents more informed discussion on issues of the day anywhere on TV. This became even more the case after the ignominious demise of my favorite interview and talk show, Charlie Rose. Zakaria ends each episode with a GPS… Read more.
Is to stop the dumping of waste in the Caribbean Sea. I advocate a pragmatic and parochial strategy for combating climate change. The adage “clean up your own back yard…” pretty much sums it up. Pursuant to this strategy, I have always championed conservation and anti-pollution measures. In doing so, I have eschewed the handwringing… Read more.
Ha! We should be so lucky. According to the February 23 edition of Vox, here’s the big deal about this Green New Deal: It refers, in the loosest sense, to a massive program of investments in clean-energy jobs and infrastructure, meant to transform not just the energy sector, but the entire economy. It is meant… Read more.
After all, this arrogant fool didn’t even believe his intelligence agents. No doubt you recall how President Trump dismissed their findings that Russia launched cyberattacks to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. In fact, during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he shocked the world by insisting that he found… Read more.
For years now, protesters have been setting The City of Lights ablaze nearly as often as campers have been setting The Golden State ablaze. Except that the grievances that invariably ignite the former are far more relatable than the carelessness that invariably cause the latter. I first commented on those grievances in “World Beware: French… Read more.
I’ve written far too many commentaries on this topic to count. Unfortunately, they’ve done little more than lump me together with the “heretics” trying to temper increasing alarms about climate change with calming facts about environmental protection and conservation. Therefore, on behalf of all proud heretics in this respect, let me hasten to clarify that,… Read more.
In my December 2 commentary, “Paris Talks on Climate Change to Avert an Apocalypse? Hardly,” I likened pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions to pledges to fund disaster relief efforts. I cited unfulfilled pledges made in Kyoto in 1997 and Copenhagen in 2009 to support the former; unfulfilled pledges made after the Haitian earthquake in… Read more.
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius [3.6 degrees Fahrenheit]… Read more.
