Regarding the cartoon at left, a reader notes: Yeah, because NASA landed a man on the moon and flies drones on Mars by fudging numbers. Exactly. We live among people who believe that our climate scientists are all in on …
Category: Climate Change
Why Are We Not Mitigating Climate Change?
Yes, but the billionaires will get richer, and that seems to be the only thing that really matters.
Stopping Science in its Tracks
Without doubt, the most effective way to prevent science from revealing the truth about awkward matters that may impede our country’s billionaires from getting richer, e.g., that we’re baking our planet, is to shut down the research centers that employ …
Happy People
This looks great. My only challenge is “ignoring nonsense.” The problem is that literally everyone ignores what they believe to be nonsense, whether it’s climate science or voodoo. Most Americans think that Trump, with his constant barrage of lies and …
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
What are the effects of Trump’s dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research? Well, according to this article in Forbes, there are (or “were”) eight benefits that each and every one of us derives.
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Dismantling Our Capacity to Predict Severe Storms and Understand the Earth’s Atmosphere
Having decimated NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Trump administration is now targeting NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research. If it has anything to do with applying science to helping the American public, it’s a goner. …
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Elon Musk on Population Growth
The world population growth is 0.85%. In the developed world (OECD countries), it’s about 0.5%. It’s not credible to me that our civilization is threatened by this. But if I were concerned, I’d ask a scientist whose life’s work is …
Is Saudi Arabia Really Planting Millions of Trees in the Desert to Fight Climate Change?
When the leaders of Saudi Arabia aren’t dismembering journalists for their opposing points of view politically, they’re making trillions of dollars from selling oil. The idea that they’re at all concerned about the environment is ludicrous. It would also be …
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Handing the Keys to the Kingdom over to the Chinese
When I argue for environmental responsibility and the decarbonization of the grid, I often say: I know there are people who believe, perhaps because this is what they’re told by Donald Trump, that climate change is a hoax. But are …
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The Rejection of Science
We may think that it is uniquely American to discard science as the tool to determine the truth in subjects like the environment, vaccinations, the shape of the Earth, etc. After all, we re-elected Donald Trump to lead our country, …
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