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 …
Category: Climate Change
Opinions on Climate Change
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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. …
What Obama Did Better than Trump, But Let’s Talk about Environmental Progress
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 …
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Increasing Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide
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 …
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Trump’s Destruction of Renewable Energy Benefits His Support Base, and That’s All that Matters
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.” …
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