To answer the question posed here from a reader: I do. I have a degree in physics. Before that, I graduated from high school. Obviously, there are scientifically illiterate people all around the country who know less about the atmosphere …
Category: Climate Change
The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation
It’s a pleasure to see that Dr. Brian Cox has become so popular, having joined the ranks of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and a few others. This phenomenon of celebrity physicists is one of very few bright spots in …
Infringing on the Rights of Others
I agree with what Ricky Gervais says here; I would only add that there are dozens of ways religion impinges on others. In my view, the most common is that it impedes our implementing science in things like climate change …
Opinions on Climate Change
There are tens of millions of Americans who believe that climate change is a hoax. The United States population is about one-third composed of uneducated folks who will believe anything Trump and ultra-right-wing “news” agencies tell them. This is not …
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Could You Be Paid to Sow Disinformation into Our Society?
99% of this is totally incorrect. But hey, who cares, right? There’s a huge market for disinformation, and I’m sure the author of the meme here was handsomely paid.
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Is Greta Thunberg a Climate Scientist?
My Republican mother used to ask me about Greta Thunberg, “Since when has a 15-year-old girl become an expert on climate science?” “She’s not,” I would reply, “She’s a political activist who trusts what scientists are telling us over what …
Where Surveys Are Irrelevant
We don’t need opinion polls regarding matters of fact. This is why it’s incorrect to say that we do (or do not) believe in climate change. One either understands or does not understand climate science. The same concept applies to …
No, Our Generation Isn’t Wiser than that of Our Parents
What 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said at left was, I’m sure, correct in its time, though I seriously doubt that too many people believe this today. When it was proven scientifically in the 1960s that cigarette smoking causes …
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A Reader Asks: Should Energy Companies be Held Liable for Climate Change?
I would say that the regulations on energy (and transportation) companies should be sufficient to put pressure on them to phase out fossil fuels and decarbonize in favor of renewables and nuclear.
Understanding (or Failing to) Climate Denialism
I can’t understand how a young history/poli-sci major who has become a social media “influencer” has superior credibility to tens of thousands of climate scientists, many of whom I know personally, who have been studying this subject since the 1970s. …
