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…)
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…)
I had to laugh when I saw this.
I love PBS and I understand the horrors that climate change poses, but ….
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet threatens to plunge our coastal cities under water, and we’re talking about danger to nearby kayakers? Guys, may I speak with your editorial staff, please?
Yes, Trump’s lawyers are hopelessly unprepared and undertalented. As someone put it, “This is like watching the New York Yankees play the Bad News Bears.” (more…)
At this point it’s unclear how successful Trump will be in leading this country further into the putrid miasma of racism, violence, cruelty, environmental ruin, executive lawlessness, and all the rest. What’s completely certain is that, as long as there is an organized civilization on Earth, historians will be studying this whole phenomenon with great interest. (more…)
The impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate is arguably the single most important event in this country’s history, as it’s a watershed moment that could push us over a cliff into lawlessness. If Trump isn’t held accountable, we will have become a monarchy, just as our founders most greatly feared, in which those at the top can do anything they wish to further their personal agendas with complete impunity. (more…)
We’re just now becoming aware of the incredible talent that Russian operatives brought to bear to help elect Trump in 2016. As I looked through some of the screen shots below, I thought how this guy, or perhaps a team, must have celebrated with their comrades for months on end following the outcome. Vodskies for the house! (more…)
Nice outfits, guys! You with the gray scarf: Love the knee pads.
Seriously, a few thousand white nationalists and other cretins held a protest in Richmond, Virginia today, expressing their viewpoint that any gun laws, regardless of how minor, are tantamount to repealing the entirety of the Second Amendment.
Speaking of the U.S. Constitution, is brandishing weapons made for war, threatening violence in order to intimidate government, protected under the First Amendment? Where does peaceful assembly end and terrorism begin?
Here’s a fabulous article that nails the seven most important reasons that the adoption curve of electric vehicles has been so unexciting.
A point I found interesting is “lack of clear superiority” (in terms of performance). (more…)
Truth and reason are coming up on the losing end in present-day U.S. politics, and perhaps the meme here indicates the reason. Yes, those who try to draw comparisons between the Third Reich 75 years ago and today’s United States are usually derided, but it sure is interesting that we have a president who tells 14 – 15 baldfaced lies per day and still stands as the most powerful person on Earth. There was a day not too long ago in which that simply would not have worked.
Controlling a population with propaganda is an artform, one our civilization presumed had hit its high-water mark in those ugly days. Let’s hope that our current government by lies (prevaritocracy?) is a passing phase, one that will soon be swept away.
