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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

To this concept a reader sent to me:

There’s a catch, however.

People with lousy grammar are generally regarded as illiterate morons.

Not sure that’s where you want to be in society.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

A reader sent me this, to which I respond:

Keep in mind that there IS an alternative to school. It’s called social isolation, illiteracy, unemployability, impoverishment, and QAnon.

Note that I didn’t say it was a VIABLE alternative.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

This is what the Trumpers/anti-vaxxers believe.

Seems a bit unlikely to me.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Something to think about this holiday season, though letting people die of treatable diseases is unacceptable anytime.

That the United States is the only country in the developed world in which this is the case should make us all angry and deeply ashamed.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From Reuters:  A federal jury in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Tuesday found the organizers of the 2017 “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally liable for injuries sustained by counter-protesters and awarded approximately $26 million in damages. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This is sad, of course, but it made me smile nonetheless.

The “rights” that anti-vaxxers supposedly have that allow them to endanger the health of our entire society are very much in the news.  And they may remain so for an indefinite period of time, insofar as these people’s ignorance and selfishness are important drivers preventing us from corralling the pandemic.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Here’s a cool video on the physics of sea walls, which are a key piece of climate change adaptation.

As sea levels rise due to the thermal expansion of the ocean waters and the melting of ice on Greenland and the Antarctic, many American cities along the eastern seaboard will be lost if we’re unable to protect them.

(Shown above: sunny day flooding, prominent in southern Florida)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
Regarding the meme here, a reader notes: Politicians have done this for 100 years. And have been completely wrong.
I respond:  I believe that, until fairly recently, politicians were more or less constrained by facts. Eisenhower didn’t try to tell Americans that 2+2=5. Now, all bets are off. Climate change is a hoax, Democrats want open borders. Covid vaccines kill more people than the disease.
It really doesn’t matter how totally stupid the claim. There is a market demand for stupidity, and there are plenty of politicians champing at the bit to supply this market with what it demands.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From this piece in Politico:

A federal judge on Friday squarely placed the blame for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Donald Trump, suggesting that the former president’s role in seeding lies about the 2020 election — and the effect it had on his followers — has been an underappreciated part of the entire episode.

Judge Amit Mehta issued his commentary as he delivered a 14-day jail sentence to Jan. 6 rioter John Lolos — a sentence Mehta said he shortened in part to reflect the fact that Lolos was responding to Trump’s call. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The content of the meme here seems obvious, but apparently, only to Democrats, and, I suppose, rich Republicans too, who like things this way.

Working class Republicans are told that Democrats are opening our borders, flooding the country with immigrants who are stealing American jobs and taking valuable goods and services from taxpayers. Then, when the immigrants get citizenship, they vote for Democrats, so as to get even more free things.

This plays into the narrative of voter fraud and strict criteria for voter registration, while it excuses gerrymandering.

I think virtually ever voter believes one way or the other, and very few of us are changing our minds.

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