“Flight shaming”: Global travel should be banned.
Saving the planet requires that we stop gaping and gawking at travel blogs and vacation selfies. Instead, everyone who cares about the environment should shame those who clamber onto an…
California banning New gas powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers
Source: CA moves to end sale of gas powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers | The Sacramento Bee Switching to EV lawn mowers will have no impact on air pollution relative…
Climate Change to Be Treated as Public-Health Issue
So it will be managed as competently as Covid-19? The new federal office—designed to address what the White House says are health risks that disproportionately affect poor and minority communities—is…
Next up: A push to ban air travel
Air travelers create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that mostly harm other, less well-to-do people. Source: Opinion: Big Tech flies too much. It’s time for these companies to practice…
Random correlations are not science conclusions
About as weak a study as you can find: Link between wildfires and COVID cases established. This poor quality paper is receiving mountains of press coverage purporting to link the…
52 billion face masks were thrown away in 2020
Good thing this environmental degradation was for a good cause – it stopped Covid dead in its tracks!
Six US States ban the sale of high end gaming computers because “climate change”
My house is powered by solar photovoltaic panels – why should my use of a gaming PC be prohibited? I generate my own power, carbon free. US States California, Colorado,…
Electric vehicles are not a panacea to controlling climate
Read the whole thing: Opinion: The unintended harm of subsidizing electric vehicles and charging stations – MarketWatch
About the high heat here in the PNW
The high heat here in the PNW over the next few days is caused by a combination of factors, including atmospheric waves that have created and inland high pressure system,…
Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Reason for the Extreme Warmth on Monday
This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics Source: Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Reason for the Extreme Warmth on Monday–And My Podcast on the…