California’s Exxon Lawsuit Is Guided More By Symbols Than Actions

The lawsuit also seems to neglect the enormous benefits that plastics have brought to ordinary people, including Californians. Despite ongoing challenges with recycling, plastics are attractive because they are extremely versatile, cheap to manufacture, and possess many unique properties that make them preferable to alternative materials that are not always as practical to use or even better for the environment.Re Posted From: California’s Exxon Lawsuit Is Guided More By Symbols Than ActionsWatts Up With That . . . [More]

California’s Exxon Lawsuit Is Guided More By Symbols Than Actions

The lawsuit also seems to neglect the enormous benefits that plastics have brought to ordinary people, including Californians. Despite ongoing challenges with recycling, plastics are attractive because they are extremely versatile, cheap to manufacture, and possess many unique properties that make them preferable to alternative materials that are not always as practical to use or even better for the environment.Re Posted From: California’s Exxon Lawsuit Is Guided More By Symbols Than ActionsWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Enhancing Care for Teens and Young Adults with Substance Use and Co-occurring Needs

CHR is one of four agencies selected to participate in a new initiative to ensure timely care for young adults, ages 12 to 21, with substance use and co-occurring mental health needs. Ten staff from CHR’s Child Outpatient and School-Based Therapy programs recently completed training in an evidence-based model known as the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Prevention and Access to Treatment Hubs and Services (SBIRT PATHS). Sponsored by the Child Health Development Institute and the state Department of Children and Famil . . . [More]

Enhancing Care for Teens and Young Adults with Substance Use and Co-occurring Needs

CHR is one of four agencies selected to participate in a new initiative to ensure timely care for young adults, ages 12 to 21, with substance use and co-occurring mental health needs. Ten staff from CHR’s Child Outpatient and School-Based Therapy programs recently completed training in an evidence-based model known as the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Prevention and Access to Treatment Hubs and Services (SBIRT PATHS). Sponsored by the Child Health Development Institute and the state Department of Children and Famil . . . [More]

Michael E. Mann Calls on Rap Artists to Fight Climate Change (Parody)

I can’t help but tie it back to the greatest injustice of our time: THE CLIMATE CRISIS. Because whether we’re talking about systemic oppression or environmental destruction, the underlying threads of greed, denial, and complacency are the same.Re Posted From: Michael E. Mann Calls on Rap Artists to Fight Climate Change (Parody)Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Michael E. Mann Calls on Rap Artists to Fight Climate Change (Parody)

I can’t help but tie it back to the greatest injustice of our time: THE CLIMATE CRISIS. Because whether we’re talking about systemic oppression or environmental destruction, the underlying threads of greed, denial, and complacency are the same.Re Posted From: Michael E. Mann Calls on Rap Artists to Fight Climate Change (Parody)Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Unshackling Nuclear Energy: The Case Against the NRC’s Overreach

Federal courts should simply require the NRC to follow federal law. Reactors that could affect the nation’s public health and safety should be subject to rigorous federal oversight. But state regulatory authorities are more than sufficient to ensure that small modular reactors operate safely. Washington doesn’t need to be involved.Re Posted From: Unshackling Nuclear Energy: The Case Against the NRC’s OverreachWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Unshackling Nuclear Energy: The Case Against the NRC’s Overreach

Federal courts should simply require the NRC to follow federal law. Reactors that could affect the nation’s public health and safety should be subject to rigorous federal oversight. But state regulatory authorities are more than sufficient to ensure that small modular reactors operate safely. Washington doesn’t need to be involved.Re Posted From: Unshackling Nuclear Energy: The Case Against the NRC’s OverreachWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #625

Quote of the Week: “... as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Re Posted From: Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #625Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #625

Quote of the Week: “... as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Re Posted From: Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #625Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Claim: Global Warming will Cause a Surge in Crime

... people spend more time outside ... they are more likely to go to the beach or to the park ... this means that their home will be unattended ...Re Posted From: Claim: Global Warming will Cause a Surge in CrimeWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Claim: Global Warming will Cause a Surge in Crime

... people spend more time outside ... they are more likely to go to the beach or to the park ... this means that their home will be unattended ...Re Posted From: Claim: Global Warming will Cause a Surge in CrimeWatts Up With That . . . [More]

The Little Fish That Could

The Snail Darter, then Percina tanasi  was claimed by the EPA to be an Endangered Species.   It was listed on October 9, 1975 for the specific purpose of preventing the completion of the Tellico Dam which was claimed to present a threat to the continued existence of the Snail Darter --  if the dam was built the Snail Darter would go extinct. Re Posted From: The Little Fish That CouldWatts Up With That . . . [More]

The Little Fish That Could

The Snail Darter, then Percina tanasi  was claimed by the EPA to be an Endangered Species.   It was listed on October 9, 1975 for the specific purpose of preventing the completion of the Tellico Dam which was claimed to present a threat to the continued existence of the Snail Darter --  if the dam was built the Snail Darter would go extinct. Re Posted From: The Little Fish That CouldWatts Up With That . . . [More]

The Climate Agenda’s March Through the Institutions: Can It Be Stopped?

The corruption of global institutions has, in turn, led to significant opposition that is becoming apparent. There is the prospect of an incoming Trump administration that is avowedly sceptical of the claims of an alleged climate crisis and is intent on exiting the UN’s Paris Agreement and its “net zero by 2050” policy target for a second time. This presents a welcome challenge to these corrupt institutions. Will President Trump and some of the populist parties in Europe be capable of countering the entrenched globalist climate agenda?Re . . . [More]

The Climate Agenda’s March Through the Institutions: Can It Be Stopped?

The corruption of global institutions has, in turn, led to significant opposition that is becoming apparent. There is the prospect of an incoming Trump administration that is avowedly sceptical of the claims of an alleged climate crisis and is intent on exiting the UN’s Paris Agreement and its “net zero by 2050” policy target for a second time. This presents a welcome challenge to these corrupt institutions. Will President Trump and some of the populist parties in Europe be capable of countering the entrenched globalist climate agenda?Re . . . [More]

Horse Manure, Climate Change, and Nuclear Energy

The Great Manure Crisis of the late 19th century offers some serious lessons for those worried about the existential threat of global warming from CO2 emissions.   Re Posted From: Horse Manure, Climate Change, and Nuclear EnergyWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Horse Manure, Climate Change, and Nuclear Energy

The Great Manure Crisis of the late 19th century offers some serious lessons for those worried about the existential threat of global warming from CO2 emissions.   Re Posted From: Horse Manure, Climate Change, and Nuclear EnergyWatts Up With That . . . [More]

The CIA and Global Cooling

Back in the 1970s, scientists and politicians were not worried about global temperatures per se, they were worried about the very real impacts of global cooling on weather and agriculture. They also recognised that the first half of the 20thC marked the best agricultural climate since the 11thC, and that the Little Ice Age was time of drought, famine and political unrest. Theirs was a very real fear that the world’s climate could return to that again.Re Posted From: The CIA and Global CoolingWatts Up With That . . . [More]

The CIA and Global Cooling

Back in the 1970s, scientists and politicians were not worried about global temperatures per se, they were worried about the very real impacts of global cooling on weather and agriculture. They also recognised that the first half of the 20thC marked the best agricultural climate since the 11thC, and that the Little Ice Age was time of drought, famine and political unrest. Theirs was a very real fear that the world’s climate could return to that again.Re Posted From: The CIA and Global CoolingWatts Up With That . . . [More]