Each acre of farmland which is turned into a woodlot removes 5.7 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for the next 20 years (numbers adapted from the UN IPCC Report). This is atmospheric carbon reductio More...
Plants made our current atmosphere and plants can keep it balanced.
When plants first showed up on earth about 3.5 billion years ago, carbon dioxide made up more than 20% of the atmosphere. There was no significant oxygen in the air so More...
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has a simple solution for reducing atmospheric levels of CO2 without undoing civilization as we know it or denying people in developing countries the right to live as we do. Although Salk believes that More...
I just qualified for over $6000 of rebates which didn’t change my behavior in any way. You are paying me to do what I would’ve done anyway.
My old car had over 100,000 miles and was beginning to require frequent expensive repairs. Time for new wheels.
I decided to look at plug-in More...
Action needed to save lives, homes – and the environment
California’s current climate is extremely hospitable to fire; it’s been that way for thousands of years. The iconic Sequoias actually More...
Its policy has cost hundreds of lives AND damaged the environment
Suppose you were in charge of California and you believed strongly that humans are making the climate hotter. You know that your state is already plagued by droughts and More...
Short answer: Do things which will be positive regardless of how much human activity is contributing to the danger of rapid change. Here are some examples:
Develop plant species which thrive in and use increased levels of CO2 and add carbon to the soil. Since w More...
“’We need to create fear!’ That’s what Al Gore said to me at the start of our first conversation about how to teach climate change… Al Gore asked me to help him… to show a worst-case future impact of a continued increase in CO2 emissions.”
The quote above is from Hans Rosling’s More...
Is the climate changing? Yes, of course. 20,000 years ago there was a mile of ice over the top of 4,000 foot Mt. Mansfield in Vermont. Long before that, there was no ice at the earth’s poles More...
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