If you live in North America and wish to keep a constant temperature, you need to move north an average of 600 meters per year. Of course, no one does this, since the increase in temperatures that happen in the …
Author: craigshields
Trump’s War on Science Is One of the Few Predictable Elements of His Presidency
In our ongoing quest to make sense of the utterly inane goings on in U.S. politics today, it could be said that there are two vast categories of events unfolding every day: the unpredictable and the all-too-predictable.
Tagged with: banned E.P.A.-funded scientists, collusion with Russia, Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, phrases “climate change” and “evidence-based” have been scrubbed from federal Web sites, the take-over of the federal government by the alt-right, three once-in-a-century hurricanes, Trump's war on science
We All Like To Think We’re Smart…Until That’s Proven Not To Be the Case
Though I try to go through each day of research, writing, emails and phone calls with a mixture of boyish optimism and the aplomb that accompanies age, I sometimes catch myself being downright angry. Why is the U.S. so regressive …
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Tagged with: global warming
Trump’s Corporate-friendly Agenda Takes Aim at Our Children
Here’s a piece of good news for everyone who is totally indifferent to the health and safety of American children: yesterday’s announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that it is dissolving a program that funds studies on the effects of pollution and …
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Scott Pruitt May Be Roundly Reviled, But He’s Really Had a TERRIFIC Year
If I asked you to name the very best year of your life thus far, you’d probably ask for clarification: Most joyful? Most productive? Most rewarding? You may end up talking about a graduation, your first love, the birth of your …
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ARPA-E February Newsletter: Energy Secretary Perry to Keynote ARPA-E Summit
I like to attend the annual ARPA-E summit (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) summit every year; I’ve made many excellent contacts there through the years, and I’m always enthralled by the exhibits. Having said that, I’m sure I’m not alone in …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Climate Change
Question: Approximately how many years intervened between these photographs of the Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, one of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: The melting of the ice caps …
Humankind Has Everything It Needs, Right Here At Home
I’ve always been a big fan of Occam’s Razor, the principle that, all things being equal, the simplest explanation is the best. (It’s actually not quite that straightforward; those wishing to learn more can follow the link above.)
Tagged with: human mind
Possible Breakthrough in Energy Storage
Gary Tulie writes: Hi Craig, This could be big. An ultracapacitor made of low-cost non-toxic materials with energy density as good as lithium ion batteries, with many times the charge and discharge rate. Yes, this sounds like it really could …
How We Think
If it weren’t for all the senseless tragedy involved, the gun death epidemic in the U.S. would be a fascinating study of how we’ve simply lost out ability to think, or, more precisely, how our beliefs about our thought processes are …
