The implication here is that folks like the Amish who eschew technology like television are incapable of receiving and understanding climate science. I would find that offensive if I were they. They can’t read? They can’t think?
Category: Climate Change
You Probably Won’t Die of Climate Change
I don’t know anything about this young lady other that she’s English-speaking, and that she has enough time to herself to spend some of it protesting our civilization’s disgusting disregard for the existential threat that climate change represents. And because …
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Another Website for Climate Deniers
As shown at left, the people who want to muddy the waters on climate change (Big Oil?) are at it again. In truth, there were occasional articles in the early 20th Century that (correctly) asserted that the emissions from burning …
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Defense Sec Hegseth says Pentagon ‘Does Not Do Climate Change Crap’
Here’s just one more example of how far the United States has fallen in the period of less than two months since Trump took office: We now have an alcoholic Fox News host appointed as Secretary of Defense who has …
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Concern for Earth’s Environment
The answer to the question posed at left isn’t incorrect, but it’s rare, and perhaps even weird. We all “live here,” but that’s not the reason most people in the early 21st care about the Earth’s capacity to support life. …
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Hypothetical Survey of Americans
It would be interesting to see the results of a large poll in which Americans were asked their viewpoints of Trump’s actions since his return to the White House in January 2025, Imagine we had to choose precisely one of …
What the Earth Is and Is Not Doing
In conversations with senior energy analysist Glenn Doty, he’s warned me of the dangers of promoting ideas like “Mother Nature,” or other suggestions to the effect that the planet is animated by a kind of spirit that protects it from …
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Dying of Climate Change
Of course, it’s impossible to predict the future of climate change, but it’s improbable that this young lady will die of it. The only way affluent white Americans will get killed by the effects of global warming is if they …
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Having Children
My wife and I had our kids in the mid-1990s. Bill Clinton, a sane human being, was the U.S. president, the economy was strong, the USSR had dissolved, the world was largely unaware of global warming, and the times were …
Ignoring Reality
What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society. Most obviously, we have environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular. The longer we delay our efforts to decarbonize our energy and …
