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, …
Category: Climate Change
Trump Digs Coal
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 …
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Wake Up, Kids
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 …
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Anti-Science Heartland Institute “Experts” Cheer the Deregulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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.
Another Big Win for Corporate Polluters
From the Sierra Club: Washington, DC – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration announced its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal …
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A Loss for Environmentalists, Yes — But More Importantly, for Humanity as a Whole
The guy who sent me this writes, “A Loss for the (Climate) Alarmists!” A loss for climate alarmists? LOL. It’s a loss for all humanity. But let’s be real. This is the only thing in which Trump succeeds: ruining good …
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Should Kids Learn About Science?
Controversial though it may be, exposing school kids to science has my approval. In 1971, one of our teachers took us down to the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia as part of a course we took called “Man and His Environment.” …
Do Higher CO2 Concentrations Help Grow Plants?
No. Higher CO2 concentrations don’t increase crop yields, just like higher O2 concentrations don’t grow stronger or healthier animals. We take the chemicals out of the atmosphere that we need for our metabolism.
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Some Lady Changed Her Position on Climate Change–But Is That Important?
In response to the meme here, a reader notes: Anika Sweetland isn’t a climate scientist. There are only about a half dozen climate scientists alive that are still publishing who question AGW (anthropogenic global warming). Exactly. If you are honestly …
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Climate Change “Debate”
At left is a post from a Facebook group on climate change, to which I replied: I don’t have a “belief,” because the word is (properly) used in conjunction with opinions or issues of faith. For example, I believe that …
