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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

According to the Wall Street Journal, after two years of fierce lobbying against the SEC, the regulator has approved a rule that forces listed companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions, and reveal the risks their operations face from climate change, e.g., floods, droughts, wildfires, etc.

In an earlier version, companies would have had to submit such reports pertaining to the entire length of their supply chains.

In any case, even the weakened version of the rule is expected to face immediate litigation.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

There was a time in the recent past at which what Bertrand Russell predicted made perfect sense, and was, it seemed, in the process of coming to fruition.

At this point, however, it appears that humankind has hit a hard limit as to its capacity to replace religion with science in terms of informing its thinking and behavior.

And, as resources become more scarce due to environmental collapse, it’s understandable that the human race will become even more tribal, more superstitious, and less reliant on fair and objective methods of managing our affairs and solving the problems that we face as a species.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

The chalk drawing photographed here is simply incorrect.

You can’t tell me that when an anti-vaxxer is hospitalized, on a ventilator, dying an agonizing death, gasping for oxygen and slowly drowning in his own blood and pus, that a nagging thought doesn’t go through his head:

If I hadn’t rejected science because of something from QAnon I came across while “doing my own research,” perhaps this wouldn’t be happening to me.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

This is very beautiful, but let’s not forget that it can be taken several steps backwards.

All the material in the recycled butterflies, wolf fur, etc. that is now your body came from the explosion of now-dead stars billions of years ago.  (This is a fairly recent discovery –late 20th Century, btw.)

You are literally stardust.

As they say, you are not living in the universe; the universe is living in you.  

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Over a period of several decades, I wrote many hundreds of market research surveys, supervised their execution on a statistically valid sample space, then tabulated and presented the results to my clients.

At this point, I would love to get the opportunity to interview the 800+ people who have been convicted in our criminal courts for their participation in the January 6th insurrection, and ask them to answer:

• Do you feel that you have been treated fairly?  If not, why not?  What would have been just, in your opinion?

 • Please tell me how, if at all, your allegiance to Donald Trump has changed since that day.  What did you believe going in?  How do you feel now?

 • If justice is to be served, what do you believe should happen to Trump at the conclusion of the trial in which he’s charged with inciting the insurrection?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Good for Mark Cuban.

When it comes to Trump, you either see him for what he is, or you don’t.  Most people of intelligence and compassion are in the former camp, and fortunately, that will be more than enough votes to “get it done” in November.

Btw, that Trump is a “snake oil salesperson” is actually not the lowest aspect of his character.  He is a traitor to his country, and this is about to be proven in court, both in Fulton County, GA and in Washington, DC.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Most commenters on this meme here report that “it’s already in full swing.”

One might think that the appeal of this conspiracy theory would be limited to the completely uneducated, but that’s not true; an old college friend liked this post on social media.

If I were to consider accepting the idea, I’d first challenge it with what I read about the American economy: the growth in GDP, the job market, corporate earnings and thus the all-time records in the stock market.  I’d consider inflation numbers, and public spending that has already provided real value for the common American. 

In short, I’d want to examine the evidence.

It doesn’t appear that there is a plan to destroy the American economy. In the olden days, we used to evaluate the legitimacy of an argument’s premises before trying to draw conclusions.  Perhaps it’s our loss of our capacity to think rationally that’s been our undoing as a nation.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

As suggested here, children have been disappointing their parents, and scaring the living hell out of the pundits of their times, for more than 2000 years.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that parents today have no reason not to be terrified at the conditions our kids will be facing in just a few decades from now.

I’m more concerned that they’ll be living under the yoke of terrible stupidity, and baking on a planet with runaway warming.  I doubt it will have much to do with their insatiable desire to write books.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here, ultra-right-wing Hillsdale “College” offers another online survey, largely attracting people who embrace the Big Lie, i.e., that the 2020 election was rigged, and that our democracy is in tatters.

I just got back from voting in our primary elections, and one of the poll workers almost had a seizure when I started to put my ballot in the box before one of the volunteers could ask me if this was a “standard” or “provisional” ballot.  She immediately explained: “We almost made an error on this earlier in the day.  We could have gotten in a lot of trouble.”

There’s an incredible level of scrutiny here.  Just one man’s viewpoint, but I think we’re in pretty good hands.

Of course, no one can predict what will happen post the 2024 presidential elections in November.  Maybe Fox News wants to re-raise the claim that our voting systems are rigged, and risk shelling out another payment of hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from losses in defamation lawsuits.

Around here, the world has ceased to make sense.   Perhaps the best explanation came from H.L. Mencken” “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I’ve mentioned that 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is located in a heavily MAGA part of rural California.

That said, we have occasional Trump signs on our front lawns, but we do not have anything approaching the display here.

Property values?

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