From this: GLASGOW, Scotland — International negotiators approved a climate agreement at the COP26 summit Saturday that calls for reductions in coal and fossil fuel use and transition to renewables — a first in the more than 25-year history of UN climate talks.
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Why Is Trump Still Hogging the Limelight?
A reader sent me the question above and speculates: Once you give that sick type of person attention they can’t live with less. They freak out without it! That’s a solid answer, but there is another. At this point, Trump …
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New Sheriff In Town?
We’d all like to think so. Merrick Garland has come under a great deal of pressure for his silence over these past few weeks, and most of America would love to believe that all this time was somehow required to …
From the Business Insider: “Jeff Bezos Predicts that People Will One Day Be Born in Space and Will ‘Visit Earth the Way You Visit Yellowstone National Park'”
This isn’t impossible by any means, but it sure doesn’t seem likely. Think of all the trends that need to be reversed before something like that could come to pass. Let’s start with climate change and its ramifications. Suppose we’re …
Tagged with: climate change and its ramifications, food and potable water shortages become common, insect-carried disease spreads uncontrollably due to lengthening growing seasons, large masses of arable land become deserts, more methane is released from melting permafrost, ocean acidification proceeds to kill all aquatic animals except jellyfish, the rise of sea-levels continues to accelerate primarily due to ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, we're unable to curtail emissions because the oil companies ultimately prove unstoppable
Someone Has To Pay To Get Minimum Wage Workers from Starving. Who Should that Someone Be?
Here’s a conversation I have with my mom sometimes. As a Republican, she doesn’t think management should be forced to pay higher minimum wages. That’s fine until you realize that the burden is then shifted from people like the Walton …
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Scottish Microgrid Is a Huge Success
Here’s a short BBC video that presents what the island of Eigg, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, has done to establish a microgrid using hydrokinetics, wind, and solar PV. Prior to its establishment, each house had its own generator that …
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Is Georgia Going After Trump for Election Fraud? It Appears To Be an Open and Shut Case
You couldn’t invent a stronger criminal case for election tampering than what Trump probably did in Georgia. Let’s roll.
Trump Supporters Dying in Significant Numbers
Obviously, I don’t wish this kind of harm on anyone, and it would be best if these idiots would simply accept the science. Having said that, 800 deaths per day means about 300,000 per year. That’s a significant loss of …
Examining Humankind’s Effect on the Natural Environment
If taking up more space were the only negative influence that humankind was having on the planet, we’d probably be OK. There are ~25 billion square miles of land on Earth; that’s 3 square miles (1920 acres) for every man, …
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Too Many Americans Have Disdain for Education
To the author of this meme, I say wow. I’m amazed at how many Americans believe school is essentially about enforcing conformation in our thoughts and in our actions. What’s the downside of understanding math and science? Of reading the …
