Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Public Pension Funds’ Investments in Corporate Polluters
Question: Here’s an update from Bloomberg Green on pension funds’ move to divest themselves of Big Oil and other corporate polluters. Before you open it, take a cool guess: What percent of the total remains in these dirty investments?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: A great deal of progress has been made in this direction, which, of course, drives up polluters’ cost of capital, making their operations more expensive and thus less competitive.
The New Yorker comedy superstar Andy Borowitz does it again. If there is someone better at lampooning American stupidity, I sure would like to meet him.
Though this is funny, it speaks to something very serious in me, and I rather feel I’m not alone.
The claim at left is completely untrue. There are people who knowingly believe lies? Some people wish to be controlled? Ah….no. Everyone rejects propaganda and manipulation.
There must be dozens of online references to people’s claiming that their studies have qualified them to have an opinion on a subject that differs from those of trained experts in the field.
I participate in a pro-nuclear energy group, that, unfortunately, thinks solar and wind are a waste of time and money. Though I’ve been unable to convince them otherwise, I like to hang around and read about the events that are occurring in the nuclear world.
Here’s a video that addresses an important form of 
This is cute, but I have bad news: the people who don’t demand evidence and think critically are not too likely to be moved by this message.
American journalist Michael Wolff (pictured) has a lot of certainty about 
