Environmental Damage Remains a Constant Threat as CO2 Levels Continue to Rise. NPG has released the newest addition to their NPG Forum paper series. U.S. fertility rates are currently below replacement level but climate change continues to be a challenge. This paper, written by Edwin S. Rubenstein, titled Human Fertility and Climate Change
Continue ReadingWithout oceans, climate change would be much worse. The oceans directly absorb about a quarter of the CO2 humans spew into the atmosphere. They also take over 90% of the heat from global warming, acting as a buffer against even greater warming. But the oceans themselves are in trouble from climate change, as the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clearly shows.
Continue ReadingNegative Population Growth, Inc. (NPG) has released a new Forum paper detailing various opportunities to combat global warming. The paper, titled Humans are Making Oceans Warmer, Deeper, and Life Threatening, identifies the roles of nations in climate change, examines the many ways humans can utilize oceans to stop the earth’s temperature from rising, and discusses the detrimental effects of single-use plastics.
Continue ReadingCan We Adjust Land Usage to Fix Climate Change? Following the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on land, how land use contributes to climate change and how climate change affects land, Negative Population Growth, Inc., has announced the release
Continue ReadingThere they go again: Another massive UN climate change report – 107 authors, from 53 countries, examining 7,000 research articles. Another exercise in denial. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on land, rolled out in Geneva in early August, takes on two questions: how land use contributes to climate change, and how climate change affects land.
Continue Readingas Climate Change Activists Discuss Major Issues Threatening the Planet.
Telling and Selling the Overpopulation Issue: Why Climate Change Gets So Much More Attention, the most recent addition to the wide-ranging NPG Forum
“Bold Claims for Renewable Energy Simply Do Not Hold Up”
Does the answer to winning the battle against climate change lie in turning over great swaths of land and coastal waters to massive solar and wind farms? According to a newly released study by Negative Population Growth (NPG) the answer is a definite “NO!” …
Can the U.S. economy run on renewable energy alone? That may seem like a fanciful question at a time when the incumbent President insists that climate change is a “hoax” and is determined to restore coal to its once preeminent role in the nation’s energy supply. But a few years back Mark Z. Jacobson, a prominent Stanford University professor of engineering, published a widely acclaimed article claiming that energy from the wind, the sun, and …
Continue ReadingAfter Pope Francis delivered a scathing encyclical on June 18, world debate surrounding climate change has become reignited. In response to the renewed public interest in this critical matter, Negative Population Growth (NPG) will release a new Forum paper on July 7 highlighting the links between population growth, natural resource consumption, and the likelihood of rapidly…
Continue ReadingIn the film An Inconvenient Truth, ex vice-president Al Gore presents the facts about climate change. It is a bravura performance. He makes use of brilliant presentational techniques to put before us all relevant current knowledge about climate change. He lightens the factual burden with humour, and by including some interesting
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