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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Question: The years 2016 – 2020 saw a huge exodus of scientific experts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, due to firings, re-assignments, and simply leaving out of frustration, seeing that science itself had been demoted to a lower role, if it had one at all.  How many are gone?

Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.

Relevance:  Several of the executive orders signed by Joe Biden at the onset of his presidency dealt with the re-instatement of science in policy making.  It couldn’t have happened soon enough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s one of the core problems facing the U.S., and it doesn’t seem positioned to simply go away.

Perhaps 60% of the country has the feelings expressed at the left.  We don’t want to unify around criminal psychosis; we want to rid ourselves of it, by applying reason, as well as the laws of the land.  (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Here’s the January 2021 publication of Frontiers in Conservation Science.  The product of 17 different extremely senior contributors, it’s a good and comprehensive look at where our civilization is perched vis-a-vis the often-discussed “sixth extinction.”

Not exactly uplifting, but perhaps inspirational.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
Former governor of New Jersey and former Trump speechwriter Chris Christie notes:
“This election was not stolen. There were no type of irregularities that would have changed the result in any one state. Folks in my party who are doing that, quite frankly, are just trying to make political points with those people who the president and others lied to about this over the course of the 10 weeks after the election, and it’s shameful that they’re doing it.”
Yes, Chris, incredible as it may be, it’s perfectly clear that you are correct here.
Here we are again, rational people everywhere are in sync with a hard-core Republican like Chris Christie. First it was Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, then the FBI’s Robert Mueller, Mitt Romney, Bill Barr, and now this. Where are we going?
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels

Apparently, Sen. Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) accepted thousands of dollars in donations from a political action committee founded by a fellow Senate Democrat, progressive Jeff Merkley (D-OR), who wants to put “every coal electricity generating plant in a museum,” a Federal Election Commission report revealed.

Manchin has been vocal about saving the coal industry and the need for coal miners, but this is viewed by some as a betrayal.  (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The guy who posted the meme at left suggests: “Accountability is coming for Cruz and Hawley.”

We’d all like to believe that, but we also need to realize we’re living in an era in which:

– The POTUS incites a lethal insurrection–and walks

– The GOP’s QAnoner Representative Marjorie Taylor Green calls for the execution of top Democrats and asserts that the Parkland school shooting was a false flag operation, resulting in–crickets.

Cruz and Hawley look like Madison and Monroe in comparison.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Question: Donald Pols and Channa Samkalden are top bananas in the Dutch environmental organization Milieudefensie.  Why are they so happy?

Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.

Relevance:  Allowing Big Oil to ravage our planet and its people with impunity only emboldens them to be more aggressive.  Punishing bad behavior with hefty fines is certain to have some bearing on its activities.

(Photo: Remko de Waal / ANP / AFP via Getty Images)

 

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

In response to my recent post Honest and Insightful Discussions of Gun Control Do Not Exist, Gary Tulie writes:

Could never understand the US attitude to guns, and the level of opposition to basic regulation let alone prohibition of even military grade guns!

Controlling and regulating civilian access to guns is not even controversial anywhere else I can think of. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

When public education wrecking ball Betsy DeVos left office, did it dawn on anyone that we’d soon be speaking about someone associated with American education who is arguably even worse?  From this:

The Democratic chair of the House Education and Labor Committee on Thursday blasted the Republican leadership’s decision to appoint Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the key congressional panel, pointing to the freshman GOP lawmaker’s history of peddling vile lies and conspiracy theories about recent school shootings which left dozens of students and teachers dead. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Ted Cruz is one of the most destructive forces in the United States right now, a true malignancy, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong here.

In fact, I don’t think anybody at any point in the political spectrum disputes what he said. China’s been on a slow march to dominate the world for thousands of years, and that tenacity, along with a wanton disregard for the value of human life, has gotten them to the point where they will have achieved that goal in the next few decades. (more…)

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