In a conversation I had with my mother last night, she pointed out that, according to politically right-of-center RealClearPolitics.com, our Centers for Disease Control estimates the death rate of COVID-19 at 0.004%, and she wonders how that jibes with the much higher figures I quote. To which I respond: (more…)
Here’s a pictorial depiction of the state of the swamp that is the United States federal government.
In each case, the person tasked with protecting a given function such that it serves the people is someone who spent his/her career ripping that function apart for private profit. (more…)
Will this energize Trump’s base? I suppose, but these are people who have already shown they believe their leader was sent by God to make America great again, and they couldn’t care less that Trump is a cruel, pathological liar, war-monger, dictator loving, sex abuser. They would vote for him regardless of anything he says or does, no matter how vile, so what’s the upside here? (more…)
The United Kingdom just hit 74 grams of CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
For comparison, here in the U.S., we run around 450, according to our Energy Information Administration.
Most countries around the globe are making sincere and committed efforts in the right direction.
The United States is poised to rejoin civilized society soon.
Doctors worked hard to get where they are, and they tend not to suffer fools gladly. Their thinking is fact-based, and they have little time for assertions on medical manners that are anti-scientific, politically motivated, and just plain incorrect–particularly when the health and safety of 330 million Americans is at stake. (more…)
Regarding the meme here, a reader notes: Dud ticket. Two conservatives running on the Dem ticket = no enthusiasm. BIG. BIG. MISTAKE!!!!
I’m not a political advisor, but I’m not sure this is a big deal. Would there be more excitement about Elizabeth Warren or Stacey Abrams? I suppose so; the left would have something to like.
But think of where the left is now, with an authoritarian sociopath in the White House. Think there’s no enthusiasm for getting him the hell out of there? Think again.
Here’s a conversation on Georgia governor Brian Kemp’s reopening the state in the midst of the pandemic, based on reports that Georgia officials bungled the data in a way that’s hard to believe wasn’t deliberate.
Glenn Doty: I knew that Kemp was evil – to the core of whatever he has that passes for a soul… But this is still shocking. (more…)
We really do live in a polarized world.
No one could have imagined anything like a “MAGA rally” before 2017.
From Desmog: In January, a trio of climate science deniers with ties to fossil fuel funding published a flawed paper claiming that models of the social cost of carbon pollution are underestimating CO2’s impact on plants and that carbon pollution may actually be beneficial. This is just one way deniers are trying to undermine federal climate rules, reports Dana Drugmand. (more…)
Here are 28 of the 101 laws on our books aimed at environmental protection that the Trump administration has either gutted or is in the process of gutting.
Those wishing to profit from befouling our skies and waterways have walked into the perfect storm: (more…)
