Like people who approach geopolitics with the attitude of "If people would just talk to each other, we would all along", there are a lot of naïve assumptions about just dumping gasoline.We know it causes emissions, and emissions are bad, we know a lot of the money paid for oil goes to fund Middle Eastern terrorism, and that is bad - those things should cause both the left and the right in...
read moreThe poles in the climate change debate always insist the other side is either stupid or motivated by funding. It's likely true in some cases but lots of policy issues have worked out even though highly paid people were against it. It can't be a constructive thing to throw a blanket over 50% of the society who will all need to get behind a policy decision, though.
read moreFor as long as I can remember, academic scientists have said that applied research is great - for someone else. But for themselves, they want to do basic research and be creative and not have to worry about any applied / societal benefit.(1)But another election season is here and, despite $140 billion of taxpayer money being spent on research, no one in either party really gives a hoot...
read moreTwo gray literature studies (translation: good enough for the IPCC, but Science 2.0 should be skeptical until they are peer-reviewed) have different answers on how fast the planet is warming. The first, from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project run by physicist Richard Muller, agrees with earlier findings about the pace of global warming, while the second, by Anthony Watts...
read moreI wrestled in school. The advantage of being from a small town before cable television (there, anyway – cable television existed but you had to pay for the lines to get it to a small town) and with no TV reception at all was you find other stuff to do. And being in a small school means you’re going to make the team, whether you are any good or not. Sports teaches about life because...
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