The chart below is just one more indicator of the fact that we really have very little regard for both our country’s small children and for their working moms.
In particular, it illustrates the raw hypocrisy of those who refer to themselves as “pro-life.” They protect the fetus at all cost, but once that baby is born they couldn’t care less what happens to it.
From The Sierra Club:
Here’s a video showing how police treat violent anti-vax protestors more gently than those whose causes may be equal rights, peace, or environmental responsibility. That’s sad, of course, but it’s worse that these pigs actually exist.
How much is it to ask that people who respect medical science are able to get tested and receive the vaccines that are being offered? There are people in Africa who walk 30 miles to get these services, but here we have thugs destroying our hospitals’ kiosks.
From this:
Three scientists on Tuesday were awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their “revolutionary contributions” to the world’s understanding of the climate—and how human activity, such as the emission of carbon dioxide, impacts it.
“The discoveries being recognized this year demonstrate that our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation.” (more…)
Here’s a video on a solar PV plant that floats on a high-altitude lake in Switzerland.
There are some physical advantages to such an arrangement:
More intense sunlight, because it passes through less atmosphere
Reflection from surrounding snow-covered mountains
Better PV efficiency at lower temperatures
But how many homes are there at perhaps 6000 feet elevation? How much more cost comes from shipping and installation in challenging terrain?
Perhaps this is more symbolic than practical.
Great article on Toyota’s (mis)adventures with hydrogen.
As we oldsters recall, hydrogen hit the energy/transportation scene in the early 1970s, when OPEC closed the oil spigot and left U.S. drivers in long gasoline lines. Toyota instantly sprung into action, and went to work designing their first fuel cell vehicle. It is from this viewpoint that the world’s largest automaker made a very sane decision. In particular, no one knew at the time that: (more…)
This really is a sad commentary on white “civilization” here in the U.S.
Elsewhere in America, we have the situation described below. I’m not a religious fellow, but do you know what I’d do if the Pope asked me to exercise mercy? Yes, that’s right, I’d do it.
Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, asks:
A reader sent me this, to which I reply:
You’re free to have whatever opinion on gun control you want, but this is complete hogs***.
Handguns were banned in Great Britain for most purposes in 1996. Nine years later, 79% of Brits called for even stricter measures.
I don’t have a problem with conservative viewpoints, but I really don’t approve of inventing harmful lies. You should feel the same way.
It’s pretty clear that the American public is getting played by the media. Of course there is the right-wing garbage in which “journalists” simply invent things that attract the Republican base of largely old, angry, and undereducated white people. But what I’m referring to is the mainstream media newspapers and cable channels.
Right now it’s all about a Trump run for president in 2024. We’re told that this is plausible, but is it really? (more…)
