In a recent post I presented the concept that there are, for all practical purposes, three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now: progressives, traditional Republicans, and Trumpists. This is why the GOP is facing an uphill battle …
Category: Renewables – Science
“I Did My Own Research”
The meme here is a good representation of how stupid people sound when the “research” they have supposedly conducted runs counter to the findings of science. It’s also a reminder that we live among people who honestly believe that American …
America’s Three Political Parties, and Where They Stand on Environmental Stewardship
It seems that there are three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now: Progressives, who are calling for the decarbonization of our transportation and energy sectors, simply because this is what our scientists are begging us to do, …
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College Vs. Apprenticeships
There is nothing incorrect about the graphic here, and there is no doubt that, for young people who may not be academically inclined, the career path on the right makes sense. Having said that, the most obvious rebuttal here is …
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Why No Aliens?
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of theories that seek to explain why there have been no verified stories of contact with extraterrestrials. One is that they know exactly who we are, and have concluded that we offer them no value. …
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How American Doctors Must Treat Disease
The point of the “survey” here, of course, is to goad ignorant people into claiming that doctors can say and do anything they like, by way of treating disease, because their free speech is protected under the First Amendment to …
Tagged with: American Medical Association, free speech protected under the First Amendment, QAnon and dozens of other anti-science groups, rapid progress the scientific community is making vis-à-vis vaccination protocols and other safety measures, the lethality of the early variants of COVID-19, threat COVID-19 poses to our entire civilization
What We Can Learn in the Great Outdoors
When my son was perhaps 11, I took him camping for a few days in the High Sierras with some friends. We needed to buy permits at the regional ranger station, and I noticed that it was replete with cross-sections …
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Spreading Ignorance
Yesterday, a reader whom I know personally sent out a mass email featuring a video full of false and misleading information designed to show that renewable energy is actually worse for the environment than burning fossil fuels. He prefaced the …
How Concerned Should We Be about Denial of Science?
It’s easy to see where Harrison Ford is coming from here. Personally, I’m not too concerned about the denial of science in its most visible forms, e.g., QAnon and the flat Earthers. Even the COVID and climate deniers don’t scare …
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Conversation with God
That last paragraph might be a tad aggressive in a conversation with what you now know to be an omnipotent being. I agree with its content, but I would have kept those thoughts to myself.
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