Summary: Both Right and Left in America show a FAILure to learn from experience. Has it become part of our national character, perhaps our greatest weakness? Today we look an example of the Left’s attempts to mobilize us to fight climate change. So far failing to gain substantial public support, frustrated by failure of their …
Summary: For decades scientists warned us that the American southwest had experienced long brutal droughts. We did nothing to prepare. Now we reap the consequences, as California experiences the worst droughts of the past century. With no end in sight, we must mobilize to mitigate the damage. Which might prove severe. This can become a …
Everything you want to know about California’s drought (except when it will end). Read More »
Summary:Â Here’s a recommendation about a brief, powerful, and timely book about climate change (one of the great public policy issues of our time). Review of The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change by Roger Pielke Jr. Let’s cut to the chase. There are two important things to know about this book. First, …
“Disasters & Climate Change”, an important new book illuminating the debate Read More »
Summary: Is the climate growing hostile? Daniel B. Botkin, professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at University of California Santa Barbara, doesn’t believe so. Here he gives a fact-rich rebuttal to the conclusions reached by the Union of Concerned Scientists in their recent report. It’s long, but gets rolling in …
Prof Botkin gives us good news about our changing climate Read More »
Summary: A people can be shaped by controlling their information, altering their perception of the world by filtering what they learn. We see that today in the debate about one of the potentially largest challenges of the 21st century. Climate scientists differ on their forecasts of future weather, which range from large to calamitous changes. …
Some good news about our changing climate. Enjoy it, for it might not last long. Read More »
