Natural selection weeds out life forms ill-equipped for survival; this is how species evolve. Here we have a large group of “people” who lack both the intelligence and the compassion required to deal with the current pandemic, and Darwin’s theory …
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More Maskless Trump Supporters Testing Positive
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In Clear Violation of Law, Trump Promoting Goya Foods
One thing you have to admit about Trump: he’s anything but subtle. He has no regard for the law, and he’s completely shameless and brazen about that. After Goya Foods’ CEO Robert Unanue said the country was “blessed” to have …
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Update on Geoengineering
At left are a few thousand climate change mitigation advocates, gathered near the Eiffel Tower during a United Nations conference on the subject in 2015. How many of them support geoengineering, the concept of manipulating the Earth’s thermometer, perhaps by …
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Politics and Clean Energy
A reader opines: politics in general have no place in the green energy space. A few thoughts: Politics can’t help but come into this, at least in the U.S. Here, energy is a business, and there is a significant interaction …
Tagged with: conducive to human and environmental health, Energy market conditions not at all free and fair, fossil fuels dependent on the practice of dumping their waste into our skies and waterways without cost, Move To Amend, Politics and Clean Energy, subsidies for social goods, U.S. Supreme Court decision “Citizens United”
Studying the Pandemic
I have an old friend who is heavy into conspiracy theories; he tends to be skeptical about anything he hears in the media and gloms onto sinister explanations that may be rumored. True to form, he thinks the pandemic was …
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Independent Research
Please pardon the profanity in the discussion at left, but this is too good not to share. I don’t have the level of animus as this guy, but I totally see where he’s coming from. (Btw, the Dunning–Kruger effect is …
Tagged with: CO2 concentrations, conversation about climate change, desertification, droughts, Dunning–Kruger effect, dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet, JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory), land erosion, methane emissions, Milankovitch cycles, ocean currents, ocean water temperatures, Rajendra Pachaui at Yale, sea level rise, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, solar irradiance, the number and strength of storms, V. Ramanathan at Scripps
William Barr Lied To Us–Why That’s Important
William Barr lied to the American people when he said that U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoff Berman “would be stepping down.” In fact, Berman had left a meeting with Barr earlier that day insisting he …
Trump Needs To Live–In Prison
Exactly right. There are tens of millions of Americans, not to mention people around the world who are suffering as a result of his policies, who would love to see him dead, by whatever means: accident, disease, assassination, you pick …
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Arguably Trump’s Most Twisted Statement To Date
The first thing anyone should do before commenting on a controversial topic is checking to make sure the facts are correct. This is especially important when the subject is so bizarre as to be beyond all credibility, as is the …
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The Cult of Donald Trump
American Christian pastor and author John Pavlovitz is best known for his social and political writings from a liberal Christian perspective. Needless to say, he writes voluminously on Trump and his supporters, frequently describing the latter as cult members. Along …
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