When optimistic people say, “The younger generation is extremely progressive and will not stand for things like the destruction of our environment and our society’s indifference to human suffering,” they’re probably not talking about kids as young as the little …
Category: Climate Change
Can Climate Scientists Be Trusted?
One of my favorite high school teachers, Joe Turk, makes this remark: Scientists allowed us to watch live (with a time delay caused by 40 million miles) a rover land on Mars. But some people won’t believe them about climate …
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The Dalai Lama Sets a Heck of a Good Example for Humankind To Follow, But…..
The Dalai Lama says: Adopting a wider perspective includes working cooperatively with others. Crises that are global by nature, such as problems related to climate change or the modern economic structure, call for coordinated and concerted efforts among many people, …
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Humankind’s Response to Climate Catastrope
Not sure what to make of someone who calls herself a “polyamorous tantric sex guru,” but she certainly has nailed it here, as we’ve often discussed. The more severe conditions get on this planet as a result of its warming, …
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The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
The Atlantic was founded in 1857, primarily to forward the abolition of slavery, by a team of intellectuals that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier, and now features articles on a variety …
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Bill Gates Wants To Block the Sun? Uhhh…..No.
Here’s a great illustration of the horrific effects social media can have on ignorant minds. Reader A: This is downright frightening…. and of the utmost arrogance. Bill Gates has no right to make this kind of plan or decision for …
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Last Week This Guy Was a Constitutional Scholar; Today He’s a Climate Scientist
The cartoon here is funny, but its implications aren’t. “The election was rigged.” “COVID-19 numbers are overinflated.” When it comes to climate change it’s either: a complete hoax perpetrated by the anti-capitalists, caused by something other than human activity, a …
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Iowa Farmers See Climate Change, Doubt It’s Human-Caused
Well, I’ve always said, if you want a comprehensive scientific analysis of something based on Newtonian mechanics, particle physics, thermodynamics, and inorganic chemistry, ask a guy with a high school education who grows wheat. I know how mean and condescending …
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By All Means, Plant Trees, But….
Planting trees as a means of sequestering CO2 so as to mitigate climate change is a good concept, but in the real world it’s a lot harder than it looks. The reason can be summed up in the phase unintended …
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
Here’s the January 2021 publication of Frontiers in Conservation Science. The product of 17 different extremely senior contributors, it’s a good and comprehensive look at where our civilization is perched vis-a-vis the often-discussed “sixth extinction.” Not exactly uplifting, but perhaps …
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