Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, through the voice of Sherlock Holmes: “We balance probabilities and choose the most likely.” David Hume, British empiricist philosopher: “We always disbelieve the greater miracle,” (which means essentially the same thing, i.e., we live surrounded not …
Author: craigshields
The Nation: GOP Going Down with Trump. Oh Sure.
It may be common wisdom that congressional Republicans are loyal to the president, but we’re about to see that this is totally untrue. These spineless cowards are loyal to themselves, and when self-preservation conflicts with Trump’s downfall, they won’t be able …
Ultra-Libertarianism
A reader offers this piece on an advanced form of libertarianism called “anarcho-capitalism” which views government as parasitic. We don’t really need infrastructure, police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national defense, public education, labor laws, auto and food safety standards, emergency …
Celebrating Diversity
Reading this statement from the former Prime Minister of Canada is a shocking experience. “A society which emphasizes uniformity is one that creates intolerance and hate.” Wow. There are people who are saying that in the United States, but they’re …
Coal: Supplies Are High, Not So Demand
Below is a chart that shows the fall-off of coal consumption in Europe, which I swiped from this article on the over-supply of this dirtiest-of-all fuels.
Trump Attacks San Francisco: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
KCBX, the local NPR affiliate here in Santa Barbara and the rest of California’s Central Coast, reports as follows: The Trump administration is following up on President Trump’s threat to go after California for pollution that he blames on the …
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Relatively Speaking
As noted in the Writer’s Almanac, today is the 114th birthday of the most famous equation known to humankind, E = MC2. We tend to think that the implications of the equivalence of mass and energy are confined to nuclear …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Displaced Environmental Scientists
Question: What became of the scientists who were fired from the EPA under the Trump administration? Did they a) Languish at home and watch “The New Price Is Right?” or b) Form their own group and rededicate themselves to doing what …
U.K.’s Hornsea One Offshore Wind Project Will Produce Enough Energy to Supply One Million Homes
Here’s an update on the world’s largest wind project, a 1.2 GW offshore wind farm covering about 250 square miles. To be completed in 2020, it’s located 75 miles off the U.K.’s Yorkshire Coast in the North Sea.
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Trump and the Truth
There was a time when pathological liars were rejected by society, not elected president of the most powerful nation on Earth. Let’s not lose sight of that.
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