What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true. Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the trend towards world fascism, as the United States teeters …
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Will Banning the Phrase “Climate Change” Make It Stop?
From National Public Radio: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed legislation that erases most references to climate change (and global warming) from state law. Florida remains the third most populous state in the union, behind California and Texas, but …
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration
To clarify: The image at the top is largely correct. As long as trees are alive, normally at least many decades, they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as hydrocarbons that, upon their death, are rereleased as they …
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Trump Supporters Vote
One thing you can say for Trump supporters: they vote. And there is no conceivable evidence that could change their minds as to who will make the best leader of our country.
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American Oil
A reader sent me the meme here, and asked, “Why don’t pictures like this ever trend?” There are two good answers: 1) Every scientifically literate person understands that the consumption of fossil fuels is making this planet increasingly uninhabitable, and …
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Removing Clarence Thomas
If we can exit 2024 with a Democrat-controlled congress and White House, there is a chance we can remove this criminal from the Supreme Court.
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration
To clarify: The image at the top is largely correct. As long as trees are alive, normally at least many decades, they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as hydrocarbons that, upon their death, are rereleased as they …
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Will Florida Become “Blue?”
In the political sense of the word, it seems like we’re a long way from seeing Florida as a blue state. Trump won the state in 2020 by only 3 points, but the overall feeling in the Sunshine State is …
The Uniqueness of America
The United States stands alone in so many different arenas, and, as shown here, its attitude towards education is certainly among them. Most other countries in the developed world understand that an educated workforce is going to improve everyone’s lives, …
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