From Bloomberg: After 16 years under the leadership of Angela Merkel, Germany votes for a new chancellor at the end of September. The post-Covid economic recovery and immigration are all on the ballot. But there’s no mistaking this election as …
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There are times in life when the point being made here is 100% apt. It applies very nicely to beliefs: religion, art, philosophy, even the political positions that had existed until recently. However, it does not apply at all to …
It’s common knowledge that the rate of change that our civilization is experiencing is increasing at an incredible clip. This applies to technology, of course, but it’s also true of the general activity that we see in our society. It’s …
From Historic Moments: This is known as one of medicine’s most incredible moments. In 1922, at the University of Toronto, scientists went to a hospital ward with children who were comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Imagine a room full …
As suggested here, it’s still possible to find climate deniers with PhDs after their names. There aren’t many, but they still do exist. Patrick Moore, for instance, was interviewed last year on Fox and Friends and said, “The whole climate …
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Here’s Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about climate change denial, generally. Separately, here’s an excerpt from an article on how one might deal with denialists:
I wrote a post yesterday called Trump Administration Continues Its Assault on Climate Science in which I discussed Science Magazine’s article “Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts.” In brief, NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10-million-a-year …
From Energy Matters: “Natural disaster” Noun, def: A “weather or climate effect that causes at least $1 billion in damages” (on a relative scale).
Here’s an article suggesting that microgrids, powered by renewable energy and energy storage, are a good idea for the rebuilding Puerto Rico’s grid after Hurricane Maria. There are certainly some points to like about the idea.
My post, “Most Congressional Climate Skeptics Simply Haven’t Come Out of the Closet,” offered some harsh words on the integrity of congressional climate skeptics, including: I seriously doubt there are more than a handful of true climate deniers in Congress; I think most …
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