As anyone could have predicted, Republicans are lining up behind the fight to ensure that the world suffers the most severe effects of climate change. The reasoning is simple: Democrats accept the findings of science, and therefore, the GOP must …
Translation: Is it still possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C (above pre-industrial times)? This is what recent scientific data says. The answer presented by a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists is roughly this: Yes, but …
Here’s another good one that gets at our monumental disregard for the long-term environmental destruction that accompanies climate change.
In one of his sonnets, Shakespeare wrote, and I paraphrase, “Love that which you’ll soon be leaving.” It sounds like he was referring to our very lives. (Aren’t we all leaving them?) But, according to experts, he was talking about …
Joe Biden’s approval rating got a bump recently, and maybe it’s because of the numerous “legislative wins” referred to in the cartoon here. Anyone would have guessed that victories in gun safety, infrastructure, climate, gas prices/inflation, bringing jobs back from …
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Good point being made here. It could be said that scientists and Republicans are the opposites of one another; in fact, most of the people in the U.S. who reject scientific evidence on things like climate change, vote counting, and …
A friend from the world of acting writes: I am sincerely naive about stocks, international finance, etc. My life has been about art and human rights so please accept this in a truly non-political sense. I don’t understand continuing subsidies …
I have to admit that Libertarianism held an allure for me when I was younger. I was hooked on the concept that nothing in government happens as efficiently as it does in the private sector, which I still suppose is …
I agree with this, but it’s easy to see where it could be a “hot button” issue with some parents, i.e., dim-witted ones. Even if the content of the meme here weren’t true, think of how fabulously impractical it would …
Good stuff here. “This isn’t political” isn’t precisely correct, however; “This shouldn’t be political” is more accurate. Sadly, fighting COVID-19 is like so many other areas in which science is under attack for political purposes. Climate change is one that …
