In the four-and-a-half years I’ve been writing these posts, I don’t think I’ve referred to Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” even once. Shame on me. I hope readers will take a few minutes and listen to last night’s performance …
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Here’s an informative interview with South African activist and professor Patrick Bond, who spoke with Democracy Now!‘s Mike Burke at the March for Climate and Social Justice in Warsaw. As he discusses here, Dr. Bond believes, as I do, that …
Here’s the executive summary of the IEA’s (International Energy Agency) 2013 World Energy Outlook. No surprise: it expresses concern about climate change from our unabating reliance on fossil fuels, which represents about two-thirds of our total greenhouse gas emissions. Although …
Frequent commenter and colleague Tim Kingston sent me this piece about the burden that environmentalism places on the poor and asks: Are things really this bad in CA? I respond: Of course, a tax on our consumption of energy hits …
Here’s another in a series of fairly sophisticated discussions on the LCA (lifecycle analysis) of electric vehicles versus internal combustion engines, showing the exact fallacies in the reports that conclude that EVs are worse for the environment. At the end …
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I urge readers to check out today’s issue of “The Writer’s Almanac,” in particular the article on the anniversary of the first street car in New York City (in 1832). To me, it calls upon two important ideas, the first, …
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I wish a fond welcome to those participating in the talks on climate change now commencing in Poland – a land I once visited on a business trip. I especially admire that the Poles’ reverence for Frederic Chopin is obvious …
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I’ve been having good luck recently in meeting strangers at social events with super-relevant backgrounds and interests. Sunday night’s wine-tasting event with friends was another terrific example. I sat next to Bill Klipstein, Ph.D. in physics, who heads a team …
One way to analyze the political spectrum, normally thought of as “conservative to liberal” or “right to left,” is to look at our conception of human rights, i.e., what we believe to be the set of basic and inalienable rights …
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I did a radio show yesterday on an ultra-right-wing talk program whose host wanted to explore the issues of new energy, climate change, etc. The guy, a gentleman by the name of Charles Heller, did a really good job, but …
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