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 …
Summoning the “Ingenuity and Courage”
The question posed at left by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good one: Can we summon the ingenuity and courage required to save us from environmental collapse? FWIW, lots of smart people say no. Kurt Vonnegut, for example, predicted …
Climate Change and Future Generations
The meme here speaks to many Americans’ thinking and behavior with respect to climate change mitigation. We simply tend not to embrace the needs of other human beings. There must be a reason that our approach to this subject is …
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Trump: “We’re Doing Coal”
In this video, Trump explains why “we’re doing coal,” including the notion that solar and wind are “ugly as hell.” IMO, this is simply an effort to energize his base of hateful morons. Trump must understand that the combustion of …
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Is His Ignorance the Most Disgusting Feature of this Guy? Sadly, No.
I wrote a post earlier today in which I pointed out that the level of ignorance on the part of this former state senator from Pennsylvania is truly staggering. Yet that’s not the most revolting aspect of his character. IMO, …
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Better Education? Sure, But There Is a Limit as to What It Can Accomplish
There is no doubt that the United States needs a much stronger educational system, though, as a practical matter, what we need even more is a voter base that refuses to elect the most ignorant people imaginable.
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Investing in Climate Change Mitigation
As much as I favor environmental sustainability, there is nothing in the meme here that I agree with. Investors must treat the crisis as an economy-wide threat? No. Investors have money, and they can use it however and wherever they …
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