Here’s an excellent article describing some unanticipated consequences of climate change. When I saw it, I commented: Humankind will never completely understand the dynamics associated with climate disasters, simply because weather is intrinsically chaotic.
Author: craigshields
The Development of the Mind in the Evolution of Humanity
As presented here, it appears that the ancient Babylonians were aware of what we know as the Pythagorean theorem about 2000 years before the famous Greek mathematician.
We All Want Good News, But We’d Prefer It To Be True
We’re all rooting for a healthy return of the rhino population, but this, really? The rhino gestation period is 16 months, and the population is up 10X? Are they having litters like rats?
Tagged with: population
It Takes a Nation To Raise a Child
It may seem that there is nothing to say about the life sentence that avowed Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. received for deliberately driving his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters at the 2017 rally in Charlottesville. After all, …
Tagged with: mutually felt racial tension and distrust
How Climate Scientists Deal with Deep Frustration
In preparation for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed Dr. V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institute in San Diego. “Ram (pronounced “Rahm”), as he’s affectionately known, had been working on the science behind climate change since the …
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Civil Disobedience
It seems appropriate that we would use this day, the 202nd birthday of Henry David Thoreau, to remark on the dramatic rise of protests in the United States. As reported here, the largest protests in American history are happening now, and …
Cabinet Members and the Race To the Bottom
If there were a contest for the egregious cabinet appointment, a case could be made for a great number. Being an “energy guy,” I could talk for days about Energy Secretary Rick “science behind climate change is unsettled” Perry.
Attacking the United States
Honest Abe’s quote here is both interesting and inspiring, but is it true? Both China and Russia are in the process of driving the United States into obscurity and irrelevance, each using its own weaponry–both clever in their own regard, …
Modern-Day Transporation
Here’s wonderful imagery that illustrates how inefficient our current modes of transportation are. Antonymous vehicles get rid of the driver. What we need to phase out is the car, and the gasoline that powers it.
Tagged with: inefficient our current modes of transportation are.
It’s a Sin To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird was published on this date in 1960. As country lawyer Atticus Finch tells his daughter Scout, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a …
Tagged with: leave food and water in the Mexican deserts
