From this piece called: “Four solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC”
(Responding to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), climate scientist Michael Mann, a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State who will join the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Earth and Environmental Science, responded: (more…)
As the 800 +/- insurrectionists make their way through our criminal courts, we hear essentially the same sad refrain: “The President of the United States authorized me to do what I did.”
Of course, there is a limit to which this is mitigating, as we all learned as children when we did something wrong, and justified it to our parents with “My friend Bobby told me to do it,” followed by this response, “If Bobby told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?”
Nevertheless, if I were hearing these cases, I’d find this at least somewhat compelling. Bobby isn’t the head of the executive branch of our American government, of which the Department of Justice is a part.
As a surprise to no one, Kay Ivey, governor of Alabama, is running for re-election on the platform that “fake news, Big Tech, and blue state liberals stole the election from President Trump,” and that she pledges to “protect your vote.”
She continues, “The left is probably offended – so be it.”
I wouldn’t say offended.
I’m ashamed that I live in the same country as these hateful idiots, and I’m shocked that Alabama, 46th out of the 50 states in education, has made virtually no progress in terms of moving itself out of the dark ages.
We Americans need to start asking ourselves why we want to be led by overtly deceitful people. I for one would rather elect someone with no qualification other than basic honesty than a Dr. Oz or Donald Trump.
You can say that Joe Biden has been ineffectual in his political career, and you wouldn’t be the only voice to carry that message. While that’s debatable, Trump told more than 30,000 bald-faced lies in his four years in office. Who makes a more capable and trustworthy president?
I’m sure many millions of Americans have had the thought that Sean Penn expresses here.
Hell, I’m peace-loving, paunchy, and soon to be 67–and even I’ve had the thought.
Examples of good-vs-evil on a planetary scale are hard to find. Putin is committing a crime against humanity unparalleled since World War II, and virtually everyone on Earth, including the majority of the Russian people, want it to cease.
Part of the blessing of Joe Biden, in addition to the fact that he’s not a sociopathic traitor, is that he’s also not the type of leader that Eisenhower warned us about here.
Biden’s supporters admire and respect him, but we don’t have flags on our pickup trucks proclaiming that he alone can make America great again, and we won’t storm the Capitol to overturn the election if he loses in 2024.
As shown here, the United States is not the only country with a tradition of democracy in which the extreme right is working hard to establish an authoritarian regime.
But isn’t France a terrible choice for a movement of hate and ignorance to take hold? Americans regard the French as urbane, well-educated, and free-thinking people. When I think of the candidate of LePen, I think of her running for mayor of New York City, where she’d be about as popular as malaria.
“The policies I represent are the policies represent by Mr. Trump; they are the policies represent by Mr. Putin.” Good luck with that, lady. The epicenter of the Enlightenment is not going to be installing a regime of hatred and ignorance.
As suggested here, hundreds of years before Donald Trump arrived on the scene, it was clear that rich people received preferential treatment over the common folks.
In the United States, we have a constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law, but in fact, we suffer violations of this Amendment (the 14th) everywhere we turn.
As indicated below, however, Trump has taken this to an entirely new level. Ask yourself what would happen to you if you managed to take a single page from a classified document home with you.
Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to isolate Russia completely in the same way North Korea is cut off from the rest of the world. The problem is that Russia has stuff to offer, and everyone except for the U.S., Japan, and Europe is willing to buy it.
That said, it’s heartening to see what Maersk did here.
Here’s an article that suggests that our civilization’s use of hydrogen as an energy carrier can result in higher concentrations of greenhouse gases. They claim that fugitive hydrogen combines with certain atmospheric compounds (though they aren’t specific about this) that prevent solar irradiation from being reflected back into space.
Let’s put this into perspective, however. Suppose for a minute that our future energy scene features a heavy reliance on hydrogen, unlikely as that may be. Suppose we’re investing huge amounts of energy to the steam reformation of methane or the electrolysis of water. How much leakage could there possibly be, compared, for instance, to the leakage of natural gas around fracking sites?
This is a non-problem.
