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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
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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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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Unintended Consequences
Today, the world is trying to comprehend why a commercial pilot would intentionally fly an airplane into the side of a mountain. Undoubtedly, there will be suggestions for preventing such tragedies in the future. Ironically, it appears this horrific occurrence at … Continue reading
A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet
Thank you William for bringing Juliet to life so she could speak such profound truth. What difference does it make what a thing is called? The smell is that of a rose, even if it is called rafflesia or perhaps … Continue reading
Faulty Assumptions and Illogical Reasoning
Editorial writers often present arguments based upon false assumptions. When this is followed by illogical reasoning, the result may be amusing, frustrating, or both. This, of course, depends entirely upon the perspectives and psychopathologies of the readers and whether they … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Media, Musings, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Alarmism, carbon dioxide, Carbon Pollutants, Climate Change, Concord NH Monitor, confirmation bias, eternal problem, Gainesville Sun, global warming, Highlands Today, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Media Bias, President
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Choose Your Battles
It was my grandmother who often offered this wise advice. Unfortunately, advice is easily offered, but not so easily followed. When emotions hijack us, we’re in no mood for thoughtful consideration. Yesterday, the United States Senate Committee on Environment and … Continue reading
Don’t Be Deceived
We can be so easily fooled by an illusion or by what someone tells us. It happens all the time. in the photograph at the right, it appears that I’m leaning on a large cactus, which would not be wise in most circumstances. … Continue reading
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