There is a great deal of truth here, but the disinformation campaigns would have been dismissed with a round jeer if we didn’t have so many “ignorant yokels.” This, from Isaac Asimov in 1980: There is a cult of ignorance …
Category: Climate Change
We’re Not Damaging the Planet Per Se
A reader notes: George Carlin does a bit about how we are told we are ruining our planet. It’s on Youtube if you can find it, I think it’s hysterical along with making a lot of sense. Yes. See below. …
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Misplaced Concerns
Here’s another good one that gets at our monumental disregard for the long-term environmental destruction that accompanies climate change.
Climate Deniers and the “Straw Man” Fallacy
From Wikipedia: A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false …
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Can We Cooperate?
A friend asked me the other day what I thought would be required to bring humankind together in a concerted effort to deal with the impending climate catastrophe. It’s a big question. One has to think that such an event …
Analyzing Climate Change Honestly
A reader, Tom, submitted the graph below as evidence that climate change is a hoax. Tom: If I were you I would ask why these data are so far out of alignment with everything we see in credible and reliable …
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Feedback Loops and Climate Change
Like so many other phenomena that govern the warming of our planet, the CO2 released into the atmosphere from arctic wildfires dried out the peat on the forest floor, increasing the probability and severity of future fires. Great article from …
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MAGA “Triggers”
Clever, but I’m surprised the artist didn’t include “environmentalists” and/or “climate change.”
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Climate Change and the “Peace Train”
As a message on Veterans’ Day, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, apparently standing by his Peace Train, writes: I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them. This is perhaps the most …
American/Chinese Cooperation on Climate Change Mitigation
It’s no secret that the American business community and the government entities that support it distrusts the Chinese when it comes to things like IP theft. I’m not saying that this is unwarranted, but it’s certainly regrettable. That’s because it …
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