When my wife and I brought kids into this world in the 1990s, it seemed a reasonable thing to do. But that was before: • The United States was on its way to becoming just one more authoritarian nation. • …
Category: Climate Change
EPA Proposes to Remove Itself from the Climate Change Mitigation Business
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (@epagov) released a proposal that would gut the 2009 Endangerment Finding and undermine the foundational scientific finding that global warming pollution endangers public health and the environment. At the same time, it’s repealing strong car …
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CO2 and Climate Change
Senior Energy Analysts and Forbes Magazine contributor Robert Rapier writes: Whenever I write about climate change, some people always respond with anger or denial. The denial crowd tends to stick with classics like “The climate is always changing” or “We …
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Florida–Understanding the Appeal
Apparently, a whopping 12,000 homes are currently for sale in this Florida town, though I can’t determine exactly which one is under discussion. But does it matter? Who exactly finds Florida appealing, in general? One has to be an anti-woke …
Can Humankind “Reach the Stars?”
To the reader who sent me this: By “reach the stars,” I presume you have some sort of metaphorical meaning in mind, e.g., “accomplish great things.” In any case, I’ll be both pleased and impressed if humankind still has some …
The Oil Industry and Global Warming
I just met a guy whose career was drilling for oil; he’d been active all over North America and the Middle East for about 40 years until he retired ten years ago. Naturally, I asked him for his thoughts on …
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Climate Change Denial Propaganda
Natalie has a point here, but I would submit that it’s really both, rather than one or the other. “Ignorant yokels” (to use her phrase) are the targets of Big Oil’s propaganda machine. Educated people who respect and understand science …
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Did Trump Almost Save the Day in the Texas Flooding Tragedy?
At left is a statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that indicates precisely how stupid she believes the average Trump supporter to be. Can anyone possibly accept what she says here is true? The catastrophe in Texas occurred because …
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Trump on the Texas Flood Catastrophe: No Reason to Listen to the Scientists — It’s a 100-Year Event
Here’s a video from Trump on the subject. Note that he started to blame Biden, but for some reason backed off at the end. This was a 100-year event, perhaps even a 1000-year event, until recently. Now, disasters like this …
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“A Glimpse of Our Future”
Obviously this is a glimpse of our future. Higher temperatures bring the energy required for more frequent and more severe storms. The only aspect of the tragedy in Texas that puts it in our face is that it happened in …
