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A One-Minute Elevator Speech on Climate Change
Has someone ever asked you an important and complicated question that you’d like to answer, but you have a frustratingly brief time to respond? Your time-limited response is called an elevator speech because you only have the amount of time … Continue reading
Energy Madness
An important goal of any government should be to ensure sufficient energy for human flourishing that is inexpensive, reliable, safe, and secure. Without energy we cannot eat, we cannot move, we cannot stay warm or cool, and we cannot protect … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Energy, Politics
Tagged blackouts, carbon dioxide, Carbon Pollutants, Climate Change, Dysfunctional Government, energy shortage, eternal problem, existential threat, global warming, green energy, nuclear energy, Politics, Power Outage, renewable energy, Science, solar energy, Texas, unreliable energy, Wind Energy, wind turbines
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The Political Cost of Energy
The modern world, love it or hate it, requires energy and lots of it. Everything we do uses energy, from transportation, to electricity, for heating and cooling our homes, for healthcare, for agriculture and food production, for every kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Energy, Politics
Tagged Alarmism, Climate Change, Energy, executive orders, global warming, Keystone XL Pipeline, Politics, President
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You Can’t Fix Stupid – California!
My wife and I have this running commentary about stupidity. She often says, “You can’t fix stupid.” I say you can, but I admit that sometimes stupid gets fixed through Darwinian evolution, or stupid gets replaced by other stupid. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
AAAS and the Uncertainty of Science
The morning email onslaught delivered the usual assortment of junk along with some gems. Among the latter was a climate science fundraising letter from Rush D. Holt, PhD and CEO of The American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Media, Politics
Tagged AAAS, Alarmism, Climate Change, Climate Science, Education, global warming, Media Bias, Rush Holt
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Who Was James Hansen and What Was He Selling?
The extent to which some adult humans assume and are obsessed with IR absorption and heat forcing in the atmosphere as if it’s almost exclusively due to carbon dioxide, methane, and a few other trace gases, is a clear indication … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Human Behavior, Musings, Politics
Tagged carbon dioxide, Climate Change, global warming, James Hansen, Science
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North to Alaska and Earth’s Wild Journey Through Space and Time
The always effervescent one and I just returned from a memorable trip to Alaska via British Columbia and the Inside Passage. We traveled by plane, train, and automobile, but also by cruise ship, over a period of 19 days seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Human Behavior, Media, Musings, Politics
Tagged Alarmism, Alaska, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, confirmation bias, Glaciers, global warming, Media Bias
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The Greatest Crisis Facing Humankind?
In less than two weeks 40,000 alarmed world leaders, scientists, journalists, and apprehensive observers gather in Paris to deal with the greatest crisis facing humankind, perhaps the most significant challenge since the dawn of civilization some ten millennia in our … Continue reading
The Meaning of Words
This simple declarative statement illustrates a point about human language and logic. We can string words together that sound smart, even clever, and certainly true. If we take the time to consider the meaning, we often find flaws and fallacies … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Energy, Musings
Tagged Fossil Fuels, Infinity, Semantics, Truth, Wind Energy
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