Category: Climate Change

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 …

No, Our Generation Isn’t Wiser than that of Our Parents Read More »

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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.    

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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. …

Understanding (or Failing to) Climate Denialism Read More »

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The answer to the question at left fully would take me several days.  But for the sake of brevity, let’s focus on the environment. To facilitate North America’s coming together to clean up its electricity grid, President Obama announced the …

What Obama Did Better than Trump, But Let’s Talk about Environmental Progress Read More »

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These people (Big Oil PR teams?) write: Celebrate the many benefits of increasing CO2! Deserts are shrinking. Forests are expanding. Increasing crop productivity is outpacing population growth. We love CO2 and so should you. In truth, increasing levels of CO2 …

Increasing Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide Read More »

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The death sentence that Trump has imposed on renewable energy in America is good for two groups: a) Big Oil and b) the MAGA crowd that rejects science and wants nothing more than to own the libs, aka the “libtards.” …

Trump’s Destruction of Renewable Energy Benefits His Support Base, and That’s All that Matters Read More »

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I looked through a few of the many thousands of responses to the question above on social media and have concluded: If you ask uneducated people who know essentially nothing about global warming, you’ll find that nothing can stop it, …

What Can Stop Climate Change? Read More »

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From “The Other 98” Trump now wants Americans to believe that greenhouse gases don’t endanger human life, a claim that flies in the face of virtually every scientist on Earth. His administration just erased the EPA’s longstanding “endangerment finding,” the …

Trump Digs Coal Read More »

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Young people in the United States today tend to be unaware of current events, uninvolved politically, and scientifically illiterate.  I get that. But it sure would be good to see newly minted U.S. voters making sure that the ideals of …

Wake Up, Kids Read More »

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A reader notes: Scientific fact cannot be overturned by a corrupt president. Good for you.  It’s hard to find a more anti-science group on the entire planet than the Heartland Institute.    

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