From The Sierra Club: This past Sunday, 144,000 gallons of oil spilled into Orange County coastal waters, beaches and wetlands, causing authorities to close several beaches. This is a public health disaster for the surrounding communities and wildlife. To prevent …
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Anti-Vax Protesters
Here’s a video showing how police treat violent anti-vax protestors more gently than those whose causes may be equal rights, peace, or environmental responsibility. That’s sad, of course, but it’s worse that these pigs actually exist. How much is it …
Nobel Prizes in Physics Go To Climate Scientists
From this: Three scientists on Tuesday were awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their “revolutionary contributions” to the world’s understanding of the climate—and how human activity, such as the emission of carbon dioxide, impacts it. “The discoveries being recognized …
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Solar PV Plant in the Swiss Alps
Here’s a video on a solar PV plant that floats on a high-altitude lake in Switzerland. There are some physical advantages to such an arrangement: More intense sunlight, because it passes through less atmosphere Reflection from surrounding snow-covered mountains Better …
From Journalist Michael Barnard: Did Toyota Make a Mistake with Hydrogen and the Mirai?
Great article on Toyota’s (mis)adventures with hydrogen. As we oldsters recall, hydrogen hit the energy/transportation scene in the early 1970s, when OPEC closed the oil spigot and left U.S. drivers in long gasoline lines. Toyota instantly sprung into action, and …
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Our Civilization Is Anything But Civilized
This really is a sad commentary on white “civilization” here in the U.S. Elsewhere in America, we have the situation described below. I’m not a religious fellow, but do you know what I’d do if the Pope asked me to …
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Creating a Better Future
Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, asks: “Why don’t we have an elite consensus in favor of policies that will actually create a better future?” It’s because one of our two political parties couldn’t care less about creating a better …
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A Rare Bit of Truth About Gun Control
A reader sent me this, to which I reply: You’re free to have whatever opinion on gun control you want, but this is complete hogs***. Handguns were banned in Great Britain for most purposes in 1996. Nine years later, 79% …
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Americans Bamboozled By Mainstream Media
It’s pretty clear that the American public is getting played by the media. Of course there is the right-wing garbage in which “journalists” simply invent things that attract the Republican base of largely old, angry, and undereducated white people. But …
The Politics of COVID-19
Good stuff here. “This isn’t political” isn’t precisely correct, however; “This shouldn’t be political” is more accurate. Sadly, fighting COVID-19 is like so many other areas in which science is under attack for political purposes. Climate change is one that …
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