Here’s Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about climate change denial, generally.
Separately, here’s an excerpt from an article on how one might deal with denialists: (more…)
People with back yards can accomplish the same thing, free of charge, using zero energy, giving up no kitchen space, with no garbage rotting indoors, in the form of a compost pile.
I used to “operate” two compost piles, each topping out perhaps a cubic yard in volume. I’d start a new one every six months, and then use the old one, which provided fabulous fertilizer for my ~1000 square foot vegetable garden. Didn’t cost a nickel, and made great use of what nature has given us.
Here’s a video that explains How Many Houses Can We Power with a Lightning Bolt?
The recent post BlackRock Announcement Huge Win for the Environmental Movement included these questions:
Larry Fink, CEO of money management firm BlackRock, announced today that the company would prioritize mitigating the climate crisis in its decision-making on future investments and strategies. (more…)
To the guy on Facebook who is all upset about this: I have news for you. It doesn’t matter to his supporters, either in the electorate or in Congress, what crimes he has committed in the past, or will commit in the future. At this point, no one cares. What he said a few years ago about shooting someone in the face out on Fifth Avenue is by and large correct.
Yes, his staff will say that he was misquoted, taken out of context, that this is fake news, whatever. But they really needn’t waste their breath, and we need to accept the truth: he can do anything he wants, walk away, and head on to his next crime scene.
That’s the tragedy of what the United States has become.
When I first became interested in electric transportation in 2008, the Aptera was already on the scene, and, as I recall, hunting around for potential investors. (more…)
This put a smile on my face. It’s a hydro power concept that proposes to scoop water out of a river, (somehow) lift it vertically upwards, and then recoup some of that energy, as gravity brings the water back into the river.
I suppose all it’s missing is one simple device, an anti-gravity machine at the front end. I read about that in school, 55 years ago. Seriously. It’s part of the Danny Dunn series.
With all the polling technology that political organizations have at their disposal today, one might think it would be easy to nail down precisely which groups and subgroups support U.S. President Donald Trump, and that everything pertaining to this subject would be extremely well understood at this point. Sure, we have a firm grasp on the most obvious, e.g., the billionaires, the Evangelical Christians and working class white bigots adore him, while liberals, human rights advocates and intellectuals hate him, but it gets fuzzy beyond that, and fast. (more…)
We live in a time of environmental collapse, in a world at the brink of nuclear war, where 1.5 billion of us can’t get a glass of clean water to drink, and the U.S. Constitution is being ripped into shreds.
I don’t want to be insensitive to the ups and downs in British royalty, but I would suggest they not use the word “crisis” to describe them.
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