Happy 2050

As we are making progress with our practical guide to talking with skeptics, I am setting aside – at least for now – all concerns on climate change, to assess the severity of a potential energy crisis on its own merits.
Energy is the fabric of our modern lives and fossil fuel abundance is what makes [...]

The best estimate from the IPCC is that the global average temperature of the earth’s surface has increased a 0.6ºC (+/- 0.2ºC) over the last 100 years.
When the objection is raised that this past increase is a natural phenomenon – as opposed to the consequence of human greenhouse gases’ emissions – the implicit foregone [...]