Climate Science

Bees:  On the Other Hand…

Bees: On the Other Hand…

Last week I wrote to you about the decline in the rate of loss of bumblebees last year.  Still a loss and a big one but just not as steep as it has been.  Here’s the back story of how badly the bumblebee population is doing.  It’s a very disturbing phenomenon.     “A federal review of existing data unveils an…

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Honey Bee Good News

Honey Bee Good News

  I imagine that many, if not most or all, of you know that the populations of pollinators have plummeted dramatically over the last couple of decades all over the world.  Bees and monarch butterflies are the canaries in the coal mine so to speak.    The dramatic decimation of their populations dramatize how what may appear to be minor changes in climate…

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Remember NSR?  Here’s How It Is Making Your Life Better

Remember NSR? Here’s How It Is Making Your Life Better

  Back in June 2018 I sent out this piece:  Altering NSR Can Kill You.  Concerned??   (https://franklytalking.com/altering-nsr-can-kill-you-concerned/) Well, NSR (New Source Review) is back in the news.  I’m really delighted to send you this article today.  You probably know that I am a life member of Sierra Club having joined the Club in 1976.  I have been actively engaged…

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Still Think That Fossil Fuel Assets are a Good Investment?

Still Think That Fossil Fuel Assets are a Good Investment?

I hope you listened to my warnings over the past few years and divested yourself from any asset in any way tied to fossil fuels not just for moral reasons but for your own financial security.   A great deal of the asset values supporting the prices of a fossil fuel extraction company’s financial instruments is the capitalized cost of the proven…

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Better Check Your Tap Water

Better Check Your Tap Water

I am going to write about some topics other than climate change and other directly related issues for a while and spotlight different environmental issues of grave concern.  You can read in the mainstream media about the temperature in Siberia above the Arctic Circle being over 100 degrees and at the bottom of the Grand Canyon over 115 degrees and melting peoples’ boots. Today I…

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How Many Fingers Do You Have?

How Many Fingers Do You Have?

I have been writing for a long time about following the money as it relates to climate change.  More recently I’ve been revealing how more and more finance entities have been committing to begin redirecting their capital away from fossil fuel projects and into renewable energy assets.  This started with a trickle and becoming a torrent.  When this started it was tentative and…

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Let’s Get Something Straight

Science matters.  While there aren’t many climate change skeptics any more, unless you belong to the Republican Party, it is  worthwhile to see graphically what is happening to our planet’s atmosphere so we can be confident of the rationale for demanding aggressive action to avoid the worst consequences that a quickly warming climate will cause.  So short and to the point today.  A quick…

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Is It Any Wonder?

Is It Any Wonder?

As I have been writing about for years and in many of my most recent articles, follow the money.  Fossil fuels are being abandon like a hot potato.  As predicted, costs of renewables have dropped more than dramatically.  In 10 years solar has gone from $300 a megawatt hour to $38 in China today.  And wind in the last 10 years…

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