What Role Does Your Organization Play?

Sometimes it can be very easy to determine what impact your organization has.  With a quick look at your financial records last year, you can fairly easily come up with how much you contributed to the *Gross Domestic Product (GDP)*, or you might be able to say a certain quantity of people were supported through [...]

Can Solar Power Become The Energy Of The Future?

   Many of our post thus far have focused on the science of climate / climate change and the implications for us as a society and even as individuals.  While we took a brief look at some potential technologies that could move us away from oil and coal in a previous post, we have yet [...]

Does Sea Ice Really Matter?

Some of you who follow climate topics may have seen some articles in recent months talking about Sea Ice.  Some of the chatter has been about whether Sea Ice levels have really changed over the last 30 years.  Others have looked at the changing sea ice patterns in the Arctic Ocean and discussed the possibility [...]

Was the Montreal Protocol a Success?

Maybe we should start by addressing the question – What is the Montreal Protocol?  This international agreement aimed at eliminating man made chemicals that are believed to weaken the important ozone layer that protects the planet.  In our last post we looked at the issue of why humans have been essentially status quo with respect [...]

Where Can I Learn More (Round 1)?

As promised, this is the first set of Internet sources that can improve your understanding about climate and climate change as well as the implications for public policy and the economy.  These first 10 links are just a starting point and will be built upon over time, but given that the goal is provide a [...]

Climate and Business, When to Adapt?

The concept of business adaptation certainly is not new, but it seems over the last few years it has become increasingly attached to climate change.  Typing in ‘business adaptation’ will turn up a connection to climate change in 5 out of the first 10 listings in Google.  The deeper you go that level fluctuates between [...]

Water Vapor – A Nicer Greenhouse Gas?

In a follow up to the last post on viable renewable energies, I had some questions as it relates to ‘water vapor’ and the role it plays with climate.  What many people do not know is that water vapor is actually the most abundant greenhouse gas.  Here are a few links to educate yourself a [...]