Human knowledge has progressed exponentially since the dawn of modern science. It is no longer reasonable to accept claims without sufficient objective evidence. The harm from religion, alternatives to medicine, conservatism, and all other false beliefs will be exposed on this blog by reporting the findings of science. This blog will also reinforce what should be the basics of education: History, Civics, Financial Literacy, Media Literacy, and Critical/Science Based Thinking.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Dependence On Fossil Fuels Is An Addiction
Monday, September 2, 2024
The Future Of Food
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Yes, We Can (Control Climate Change)
Monday, August 12, 2024
Is Economic Growth Always Good?
"This, too, is utter bunk. Unconstrained economic growth is causing such grave harm to the climate that its costs are likely to be greater than the gains.
"Mainstream economists don’t measure the costs of growth. They talk about climate change as a so-called “externality,” as if it were just incidental to growth.
"But if you consider the deaths and injuries caused by chemical pollution, wildfires, and more intense hurricanes and storms, the costs of growth are huge.
"It’s possible to shift from an economy organized around growth to one organized around sustainability. How? Dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels. Limit what can be mined and extracted."
"We should also limit the amount of gunk that can be put into the air, limit how much plastic can be produced, how much of our coastlines can be developed, and how much land can be owned and developed.
"In other words, if we accept that the Earth is a finite resource, let’s also agree that infinite growth will destroy the Earth. It’s already on its way."
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Yes, Tucker, They ARE FOSSIL Fuels
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Deep-Sea Mining
Click on this link for a critique of the practice of Deep-Sea Mining.
Monday, May 27, 2024
The Future Of Energy And Climate Is On The Line
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Urban Tree Planting: A Solution To Climate Change?
"Since then, the climate crisis has only gotten worse with record breaking global summer temperatures and dangerous heat waves. A sweeping 2021 climate report released by the United Nations found the crisis is accelerating, not slowing, increasing the urgency to implement the best possible solutions to curb global climate disaster. So how can cities like Boston hope to succeed in mitigating climate change and cut their own carbon emissions?"
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Green Technology And Regulated Capitalism: An Optimistic Outlook
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Another Sign Of The Impending Existential Threat From Climate Change
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Yes, Cold Snaps In Winter Can Be Caused By Global Warming
"As unprecedented heat makes way for cold, it can provide fuel for climate-change deniers who point to freezing temperatures as evidence that global warming is overstated.
"But scientists are clear: cold extremes will still occur even as winters warm overall.
"Global heat records outpace cold records — 2023 was the hottest year on record by a huge margin. And even as the US struggles to cope with intense bursts of heavy snow now, over the long term, the human-caused climate crisis has led to an alarming trend of disappearing snow in the Northern Hemisphere.
"Some scientists say that climate change may even be playing a role in these icy blasts, as warming in the Arctic increases the likelihood that frigid, polar air can sweep southwards."
Click on the link below for more against the conservative, anti-science propaganda:
Why we still have brutal cold snaps even as the planet warms to record levels
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Reality Can Be Counter-Intuitive
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Climate Change And The Details Of Science
"Many of the world's biggest problems require asking questions of scientists -- but why should we believe what they say? Historian of science Naomi Oreskes thinks deeply about our relationship to belief and draws out three problems with common attitudes toward scientific inquiry -- and gives her own reasoning for why we ought to trust science."
Click on the link below for the details of the best method to understand reality:
Sunday, January 7, 2024
An Updated Look At Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy has been downgraded by many experts because of its history and expense. Since it seems that its negatives have been overstated, and it's going to be necessary to solve global warming through many routes, it is more than time to see what new technologies regarding nuclear energy bring to the buffet. Click on the link below for the details:
Is nuclear power really that slow and expensive as they say?Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Scientific Consensus Clarified
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Lithium Batteries: The Disposal Problem
"One reason is that the most widely used methods of recycling more traditional batteries, like lead-acid batteries, don't work well with Li batteries. The latter are typically larger, heavier, more complex, and even dangerous if taken apart incorrectly."
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Gravity Batteries: Another Approach To Clean Energy?
There is a riddle at the heart of the renewable energy revolution. When the wind blows, the sun shines, and the waves roll, there is abundant green power to be generated. But when skies darken and conditions are calm, what do we do?
The answer, today, is to ramp up conventional power production, supplying the grid by burning fossil fuels. It is a 20th Century solution to a 21st Century problem – one that sits in sharp contrast with plans for carbon neutrality.
A cleaner future will mean focusing on ever-larger lithium-ion batteries, some energy experts say. Others argue that green hydrogen is the world's best hope. And then there are those placing their bets not on chemistry, but the limitless force that surrounds us all: gravity.
"Underpinned by Newton's immutable logic – what goes up, must come down – this new field of energy storage technology is, in principle, remarkably simple. When green energy is plentiful, use it to haul a colossal weight to a predetermined height. When renewables are limited, release the load, powering a generator with the downward gravitational pull."
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Geothermal & Geoengineering: A New Focus On Attacking Climate Change?
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Ocean Currents: They ALSO Are Affected By Climate Change
Click on the links below for some information you probably have not been exposed to that is vital for understanding the complete effects of climate change:
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream is a part – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025
Let's talk about AMOC
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
The Sixth Mass Extinction
Presently, the Earth is experiencing its highest temperature in 120,000 years. To put that in perspective, at that time, most modern humans (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) were only living in Africa and had human cousins to deal with. If you think that this is no big deal, you are not listening to science experts dealing with the state of the Earth and humanity. Click on the links below to get a perspective regarding THE existential crisis facing our reality:
What is the sixth mass extinction and what can we do about it?