This sounds good, until you realize that we live in a world with white supremacists, COVID disinformation spreaders, climate deniers, war mongers, insurrectionists, oil company lobbyists, and a very long list of others whose doctrines must be refuted.
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Yes, Wind Energy Has Its Own Carbon Footprint
Climate deniers and renewable energy skeptics frequently point out that wind and solar have their own carbon footprints, and that these numbers are either totally unknown or astronomically high. The first part of this is true, to be sure. There …
Germany’s Climate Election–The United States Is Unique In Climate Denial
From Bloomberg: After 16 years under the leadership of Angela Merkel, Germany votes for a new chancellor at the end of September. The post-Covid economic recovery and immigration are all on the ballot. But there’s no mistaking this election as …
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Good Point, Bad Analogy
There are times in life when the point being made here is 100% apt. It applies very nicely to beliefs: religion, art, philosophy, even the political positions that had existed until recently. However, it does not apply at all to …
Lots of Change, and Plenty Of It for the Better
It’s common knowledge that the rate of change that our civilization is experiencing is increasing at an incredible clip. This applies to technology, of course, but it’s also true of the general activity that we see in our society. It’s …
Science Is Living on the Brink
From Historic Moments: This is known as one of medicine’s most incredible moments. In 1922, at the University of Toronto, scientists went to a hospital ward with children who were comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Imagine a room full …
Climate Deniers Still Exist, and They Make Lots of Noise Wherever They Go
As suggested here, it’s still possible to find climate deniers with PhDs after their names. There aren’t many, but they still do exist. Patrick Moore, for instance, was interviewed last year on Fox and Friends and said, “The whole climate …
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Climate Change Denial
Here’s Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about climate change denial, generally. Separately, here’s an excerpt from an article on how one might deal with denialists:
Why Should the U.S. Invest in Global Warming Mitigation, When Its Leadership Is Composed of Climate Deniers?
I wrote a post yesterday called Trump Administration Continues Its Assault on Climate Science in which I discussed Science Magazine’s article “Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts.” In brief, NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10-million-a-year …
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Identifies Strange Coincidence
From Energy Matters: “Natural disaster” Noun, def: A “weather or climate effect that causes at least $1 billion in damages” (on a relative scale).
