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Richard S Lindzen and climate change.

By on May 1, 2012 in General Discussion, Science

From The NYTimes, a piece about how one researched Richard S. Lindzen believes that cloud activity will work to counteract the effects of global warming. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/earth/clouds-effect-on-climate-change-is-last-bastion-for-dissenters.html?ref=globalwarming Some quotes from the article by Justin Gillis, published in the 4/30/12 edition of the Times. “They acknowledge that the human release of greenhouse gases will cause the planet [...]

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Fun boson video.

By on May 1, 2012 in General Discussion, Science
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The EPA and fracking.

By on April 23, 2012 in General Discussion, Politics, Science

The EPA recently announced it’s first air pollution regulations of the fracking industry, the process by which chemicals and water are injected into the ground to expand fractures in rock to permit the capture of natural gas. This has been well received by environmental groups since fracking can release greenhouse gasses and benzene into the air. [...]

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Final Post? Tennessee Leads The Way Into The Future!

By on April 6, 2012 in Human Behavior, Politics, Science

The Republican governor of the state of Tennessee is reportedly going to sign a bill that makes it open season on science in the schools of that state. The bill will allow science teachers to freely attack the theory of evolution in their classes, along with any other scientific theories they want to take pot-shots [...]

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The limits to growth.

By on April 4, 2012 in Economics, General Discussion, Human Behavior, Science

The Limits to Growth was a report issued by some MIT scientists in 1972, The Smithsonian magazine had a short but interesting piece talking about this report 40 years later, I include a graph from the piece which looks at how the predictions of the report have fared and a link. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Is-it-Too-Late-for-Sustainable-Development.html?c=y&page=1

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Obama: GOP Budget Is “Thinly-Veiled Social Darwinism”.

By on April 3, 2012 in Economics, General Discussion, Politics, Science

In a speech today, President Obama described the GOP budget (as proposed by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin) as “thinly-veiled Social Darwinism”. He added that it would ‘gut’ the very things that we need for the economy to grow: education and training, research and development, infrastructure. And he is, of course, right. The Ryan budget [...]

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Wasting electricity.

By on April 3, 2012 in General Discussion, Science

A short time ago I heard a piece on NPR in which it was brought up that they did a poll of engineers to find out what they thought the greatest engineering achievement has been, the answer was the modern electrical grid which takes electricity from many different regional sources and distributes it as needed [...]

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Quick chuckle

By on March 8, 2012 in General Discussion, Science

I switched to my personal page at MSN for a moment to catch up on general news. The first emtry on the MSNBC menu was Solar storm hits Earth: So far, no problem. When I selected it, it was just a blank, bright white, page. Was that a problem? I don’t know how long the [...]

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Something Smacked The Earth 12,900 Years Ago

By on March 7, 2012 in Science

New research has provided strong support for the previously controversial hypothesis that the Earth suffered a serious cosmic impact some 12,900 years ago, at the onset of an unusually cold climatic period known as the Younger Dryas. The scientists found a sediment layer buried in the floor of Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico that contained [...]

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The Most Dangerous Theology On Earth

By on February 21, 2012 in Economics, General Discussion, Politics, Science

Rick Santorum has been getting a lot of mileage criticizing Barack Obama’s ‘theology’ of late, but it is really Mr. Santorum who has the most dangerous theology on Earth. Rick Santorum is a dominionist, which means he believes the Earth to be nothing more than a rock that was given to us by some old [...]

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