Covid and Climate: A Tale of Two Hysterias Part 2
Perhaps the last word lies best with the towering American essayist H. L. Mencken, who wrote that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary”.…
Climate Narcissism 101
Guest “Good fracking grief!” by David Middleton I do a lot of networking on LinkedIn. The vast majority of it is with oil & gas and other energy industry professionals……
Was Global Warming The Cause of the Great Northwest Heatwave? Science Says No.
The evidence for a predominantly natural origin of the high temperatures records of last week is compelling, with global warming marginally increasing the peak temperatures by perhaps a few degrees. Without global warming, we still would have experienced the most severe heatwave of the past century.…
Turning Algae Trash into Treasure: Conservation Nation Episode 5
These algae blooms are causing big problems for Florida waters, but Aguaculture may have found the key using free market forces and technological innovation.…
Closing the gap on the missing lithium
There is a significant discrepancy between theoretical and observed amounts of lithium in our universe. This is known as the cosmological lithium problem, and it has plagued cosmologists for decades.…
REAL threats to planet and people
Environmental activism was already nasty and lethal when I wrote Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death 18 years ago. It’s gotten steadily worse since then, especially with hysteria about the “looming manmade climate apocalypse” driving ever more extreme demands that we rid the world of fossil fuels and prohibit or roll back modern living standards.…