The Limitless Themes of Climate Change Disinformation Campaigns
The climate isn’t changing? The climate is always changing? A while ago scientists were predicting an ice age? There’s still snow? The science isn’t clear? (more…)
Tagged with: A while ago scientists were predicting an ice age, Carbon dioxide is planet food and increased CO2 levels are making the planet greener?, Climate Change Disinformation Campaigns, Climate mitigation is a job killer, Climate mitigation is anti-capitalist, Dissenting voices on climate changes are censored, good disinformation campaign, Libtards hate America, Only God can destroy the Earth, Scientists are corrupt, Scientists are liberals, sea-levels aren't rising, Teenage girls have no right to tell us what to do until they have PhDs in economics, The Chinese are behind it, The climate isn't changing, the climate is always changing, The Hollywood elites want to weaken America, the ice sheets aren't shrinking, The science isn't clear, The sky is falling, The sun's getting hotter, The U.S. President says it's a hoax, There's still snow
Existentialism
Existentialism could be defined as the philosophic doctrine that we are all born into an icy-cold universe that is completely indifferent to our well-being, and that we come to be who we are by making life choices for which we and only we are responsible. (more…)
Tagged with: Existentialism
Trump’s Mental Health: Nothing to See Here, Move Along Now
I recall a barrage of such assessments from the mental health community when Trump first took office, though this is the first one in a while.
Nothing to be concerned about, of course.
Talmadge’s resume excerpt below. (more…)
Tagged with: Trump's Mental Health
The American Education Debacle in the Age of Trump
A friend who teaches 6th grade in a public school in Hawaii notes:
The majority of his students have no real aspirations for learning or academic achievement.
Their parents don’t care any more than the kids themselves. (more…)
Tagged with: American Education Debacle in the Age of Trump
Debunking Claims in Hydrokinetics
A reader asked me to comment on the validity of the Wave Roller, a device seen here for extracting the energy from ocean waves. It’s described by its proponents thus: (more…)
Tagged with: Debunking Claims in Hydrokinetics
Viewing the Senate Impeachment Trial Through a Different Lens
Americans generally hate being tapped for jury duty, and often come up with excuses to be dismissed. The meme here offers a few suggestions that are sure to get the job done, if they wouldn’t be regarded as patently absurd by the judge trying the case. (more…)
Tagged with: Senate Impeachment Trial
Wow, We Really ARE That Stupid
Whenever I come across something that I want to comment on, but it seems so totally asinine that it might be fake news, I immediately plug it into Google and see what pops up. Could the discussion at left here really have taken place? Jeanine Pirro is an actual legal professional, but one who just happens not to understand the most basic principle that guides American jurisprudence? (more…)
The Trillion Tree Campaign
A few points on the trillion tree initiative:
• This is an irrefutably good idea, as trees absorb CO2 and convert it to both above- and below-ground tissue that remains sequestered, at least until the end of their lives. (more…)
Tagged with: environmental sustainability, meteoric rise in greenhouse gas emissions, trees absorb CO2 and convert it to both above- and below-ground tissue that remains sequestered, trillion tree initiative, Trump's utter disdain for environmental responsibility, widespread destruction of the Amazon rainforest
Economic Losses from Climate-Fueled Disasters in the Last Decade: $3 Trillion
The economic losses from 2010 -2019, according to Aon’s Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2019 Annual Report (pdf), hit nearly $3 trillion. That’s up from 1.8 trillion recorded between 2000 and 2009. (more…)
Bruce Springsteen: ‘Trump Doesn’t Understand What it Means To Be American’
Readers may find this piece in The Independent to be of interest.
I would submit that it’s more complicated than that; it depends on what it actually does mean to be an American.
In a way, America is at war with itself. (more…)
Tagged with: greed and selfishness
