The Original Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living Portal (since 2009)
indur m goklany, Tag
- Indur Goklany: “No Empirical Evidence that Anything Bad is Happening B/C of Climate Change” Sun, 27 Nov 22, 5:00am2007 book: The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet
- Smears and science denial from the New York Times Sun, 8 Mar 20, 1:00amReposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog By Larry Kummer, Editor / 6 March 2020 Summary: We’re ignorant about the world because we read the news. Here’s today’s example from the NY Times. The subject is the public policy...
- Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity? Thu, 18 Oct 12, 11:58amGuest post by Indur M. Goklany I have a new paper in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, which asks the question, Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity? This is threshold question to which many...
- Memo to Doubters—I was Tempted to say “Deniers”—CO2 is Plant Food! Sun, 1 Jul 12, 2:52amGuest post by Indur M. Goklany This illustration from a recent article in Science magazine shows that CO2 is plant food. It is based on both empirical data and model results (not “data”). I know that looking at empirical...
- A Carbon Tax Does Not Provide Redress for Any Alleged Property Right Violation from Global Warming Tue, 5 Jun 12, 5:01pmGuest post by Indur M. Goklany In a piece in the Atlantic titled, “A Conservative’s Approach to Combating Climate Change,” Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University and, more importantly, an...
- Global Economic Damages from Tropical Cyclones – Sins of Omission Fri, 3 Feb 12, 8:05pmGuest post by Indur M. Goklany A few days ago I saw a report about a paper in Nature Climate Change on future economic damages from tropical cyclones (or hurricanes, as we Americans call them) by Robert Mendelsohn, Kerry...
- Oxfam—Betraying its Roots and Sabotaging its Own Mission Tue, 13 Dec 11, 7:04pmGuest post by Indur M. Goklany On its website Oxfam reminds us that its name comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. Today it claims to work to “find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.” So imagine...
- The Odd Omission in IPCC’s Summary for Policy Makers for SREX on Extreme Weather and Climatic Events Sun, 20 Nov 11, 4:25pmGuest post by Indur M. Goklany One of the major reasons why extreme weather events are of abiding interest to both the public and policy makers is the potential loss of life that they can cause. Imagine, therefore, writing...
- Are biofuel policies to help Mother Earth killing her most vulnerable children instead? Tue, 19 Apr 11, 5:01pmGuest post by Indur M. Goklany I have a new paper — Could Biofuel Policies Increase Death and Disease in Developing Countries? — which suggests that global warming policies may be helping kill more people than...