Might?? Trump might leave the country? Like there’s another way to avoid criminal indictments from hear to Halifax? In the quite probable event that he loses, is anyone stupid enough to think he won’t try to disappear, along with his …
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The Rise of Climate Denial
Reader Jay asks for my response here: I’m curious on your take on what seems like an increase in anti climate change events like the one you reference in your post (“Are Environmental Protectors “Alarmists?”). That video has probably a …
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Climate Change Projects Have Been Remarkably Accurate
From reader Jim K.: Regarding your post Are Environmental Protectors “Alarmists?”, I would point out that one side argues that CO2 is the primary control valve for planetary temperatures. The other side argues that CO2 plays a role, but there …
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Trump and Healthcare
I can’t imagine how embarrassed I’d be if I found myself in this position. Think what it would be like to look into Americans’ faces, and tell them the same baseless story, time after time, over a five-year period, on …
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Trump Says No To California’s Wildfire Relief
What kind of a human being punishes 40 million people because they live in a state that didn’t vote for him? I’d like to believe that part of the reason he’s going to lose is that he is at heart …
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Giving Trump Plenty of Air Time
Here we see the mainstay of the Democrat’s strategy to win the presidency: this one, concise idea: Let Trump Speak. Sadly, there are very few remaining undecided votes; Trump is trailing by 11.2% (54.1% to 42.9%), leaving only 3% undecided.
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Are Environmental Protectors “Alarmists?”
My business deals in expediting the phase-out of fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy, electric transportation, and energy efficiency solutions. Moreover, I believe there are both financial and moral reasons for wanting this transition to happen. Financially, we see …
Tagged with: ExxonMobil is traded today at 32.7% of what it was just a few years ago, Heartland Institute, impact of 8 billion people on this planet is causing environmental ruin in the form of climate change ocean acidification loss of biodiversity and widespread disease to humans and other life forms, impossible for humankind to preserve a decent environment (like virtually all our scientists are telling us), phase-out of fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy electric transportation and energy efficiency solutions
Republicans Known for Familial Strife
As suggested here, it’s awkward when a child of a household-name Republican openly and aggressively urges voters to cast their ballots for the Democrats. It’s also as if that close proximity and all those years of acquaintance have resulted in some …
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2020 On Track To Overtake 2016 as the Hottest Year on Record
Wouldn’t it be positively bizarre if science turned out to be right and the theory of climate change (aka anthropogenic global warming or AGW) turned out to be correct, and the early 21st Century actually turned out to be our …
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Republican Senate Candidates Dumping Trump
I don’t impute any moral goodness to Sasse for what he said here, because it’s no more than politically expedient. As someone said in response, “If you want to show that you’re not a hypocrite, vote against the confirmation of …
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