At a dinner party a few years ago, I had the good fortune to be seated next to a guy from JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who was leading a team of scientists who were studying the interior of glaciers. Since …
Category: Climate Change
Trump and Climate Denial
There’s no way to know for certain, but I believe most Republican politicians understand and accept the theory of AGW, Anthropogenic Global Warming, but so many of their constituents are ignorant, and so they figure that they must play along. …
Climate Deniers Are Out in Full Force
CO2 is not a poison, but it is a greenhouse gas. It would be interesting to know which oil company is behind the “CO2 Coalition.”
Climate Change Conspiracy Theories
Here’s are a few comments on social media about the meme at left: Yes, insane. Imagine the stupidity of the people who actually fell for it. CO₂ is not a bad thing. CO₂ is the gas of life. Without it, …
Conspiracy Theories Abound
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 …
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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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