Today is the five year anniversary of the first experiments performed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in the suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland. There, more than 10,000 physicists and engineers are …
Tag: Climate Change
Climate Change and Government — The Will of the People Is Being Badly Frustrated
Here’s an article based upon a recently conducted survey performed by Gallup on behalf of insurance giant Swiss Re that suggests that the world’s population cares a great deal about climate change — that, in fact, global warming is humankind’s …
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Does Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels Cause Extreme Weather Events?
Yesterday saw the publication of a paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society to the effect that climate change caused by human use of fossil fuels played a role in about a half dozen extreme weather events last year. …
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Want Sane, Decent Leaders? Vigilance Is Required
Plato (pictured here with Athena, goddess of wisdom, looking over him) is supposed to have said: The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. This, of course, is why it makes our …
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Subsidies for Renewable Energy No Longer Needed by 2025
Those who think that federal subsidies for renewable energy are an unacceptable extravagance will be pleased to know that, by 2025, they will no longer be necessary, according to this report by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Of …
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From Guest Blogger Emily Harper: The Truth about Climate Change — Will Planting Trees Really Save Us?
Changes in the temperature in the past decades have brought the worst natural disasters that wreaked havoc everywhere in the world. From hurricane Katrina in 2005 that claimed more than a thousand lives in the country to cyclone Nargis in …
From Guest Blogger John Anderson: Climate Change — Are Hurricanes Our Fault?
The world has suffered from several fatal disasters. News of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other phenomena have shaken us. Most people say that it is nature’s own way of taking revenge against humans’ cruelties. However, could it be nature’s cruelty …
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Craig's Discussion of Renewables on a Conservative Talk-Show
Here’s the radio show I did on Conservative Nation Radio the other night, in which I discussed renewable energy, climate change, sustainability, and a whole bunch of related issues with an old friend who happens to host a really right-wing …
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Self-Driving Cars — Really?
I know the world of transportation visionaries/futurists seems to be in love with the concept of the self-driving car, but I don’t see it. There is so much wrong with our existing paradigm in personal mobility, it’s hard to know …
Fracking Uses Huge Volumes of Water in Places Where It’s Dangerously Scarce
If you invest six minutes into the video in this article, you’ll learn that, unless something changes, 30 towns in West Texas will have run out of water by the end of the year. Not only are they suffering a …
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