I met a woman from Chicago yesterday who is concerned that the nation’s third-largest city is experiencing increasing frequent and severe tornadoes, causing deaths and inflicting huge amounts of property damage. She seemed despondent, sadly resigned to the fact that …
Category: Climate Change
Government Is Inefficient, But . . .
Until I was about 40, what Milton Friedman said at left made perfect sense to me. That’s when I realized that free market capitalism is destroying the environment, and that without government regulation, our planet would soon be in flames. …
Congress Should Address the Climate Crisis
Asking the congress to “address the climate crisis” is something of a joke. Most of them have their seats by virtue to their allegiance to Big Oil, and, for many, their position on climate change is that it’s a hoax. …
Artificial Stupidity?
We all understand that there are ultra-conservatives living all around us, but does anyone truly believe that our schoolteachers are ruining our society by teaching children the truth about U.S. and world history? Science? Current events? Slavery and Jim Crow …
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NOAA Set Up Website — for You
Trump is working hard to dismantle NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the largest collection of American scientists focusing on climate change. In particular, he shut down NOAA’s website, that formerly gave everyone on Earth the ability to look …
Professor Brian Cox on Our Obligation to Deal with Climate Change
Dr. Brian Cox has risen to the status of what I would call an “astrophysics badass” in a matter of just a few short years. Anywhere you go on social media, there’s Cox making you think the most profound thoughts …
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Climate Change: What to Believe?
I’ve often wondered why people like this German woman, an ultra-right-wing politician with no more training in this subject than my gardener, is taken more seriously than the many thousands of scientists who have been studying climate physics for all …
Tornados and Climate Change
Does climate change increase the intensity of tornados? Well, yes, if you listen to our scientists, but not according to the ultra-right-wing, anti-science Heartland Institute. Their spokesperson (see link above) says that the media distorts the data. OK, what’s more …
Tagged with: Does climate change increase the intensity of tornados, Heartland Institute, media involved in a plot to destroy the American economy, socialism, the clean energy technology that is being adopted around the globe, the media reports the scientific consensus, ultra-right-wing anti-science Heartland Institute
Ayn Rand Is No Longer a “Thing” — Here’s Why
A reader asks: Isn’t it time for the Libertarians to cast aside the whole myth of objectivism championed by Ayn Rand? She said we should be realists, so let’s be real and see her for who she really was … …
Good News from Big Oil
Oh, that’s good news! Tens of thousands of scientists who have spent their careers studying the subject have magically turned out to be corrupt radical leftists, lying about the data they have collected over the last 50 years. Makes perfect …
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