Last week I wrote about how dark green religion seeks to shut down humans by limiting access to energy. The elephant in the room is, in fact, the population question. The reason is, as environmentalists know too well, that poverty is a terrible recipe for a healthy environment. The examples I gave last week showed [...]
Education
The ultimate resource is the free human being, and the master resource is energy. Control energy, and control human beings. Humans become slaves when energy is denied them, as the green movement is so effectively doing through the world. The irony is that destroying human liberty does not help the environment. Unfortunately, politicians are almost [...]
A new sociological study by Gordon Gauchat claims there has been, in the past four decades, a dramatic decline in churchgoers’ faith in science. The study, published last week in the American Sociological Review, finds that “public trust in science has not declined since the 1970s except among conservatives and those who frequently attend church.” [...]
On how to get google out of your bedroom. Why should one cut down on internet browsing? Reason 10,101: Everyone has an opinion, and not all are equally worthy of your time. There is so much junk that one can spend a lot of time sifting through trash that someone knocked out in 5 minutes, [...]
“Space weather” refers to electromagnetic and plasma conditions in near-Earth space that can cause problems for satellite and ground-based technologies, and in extreme cases also astronauts. The most visible manifestation of space weather is the aurora overhead. But auroras are only one indicator of the dynamics of particle and field interactions in the magnetic [...]
(Time to get greens off the backs of Africans) Instead of more foreign aid, we need self-initiative and energy and economic development, by Cyril Boynes, Jr. (Congress of Racial Equality) While on extended leave in New York, I often pondered conditions in this huge city, versus in Uganda and most of Africa. Perhaps most of [...]
I need a generator to power equipment for an experiment. We need to go into the bush, and construct various stalls, and observation sites, so a good generator is in order. Also, once that is done, multi-use is a plus. The idea of weathering a natural or man-made disaster is not pleasant to think on. [...]
Two days into the Fall AGU (American Geophysical Union) meeting and I’m tuckered out. This largest meeting of earth and space scientists in the world, with more than 20,000 international scientists, gathers in one of the most beautiful cities of the world. With conference budgets averaging approximately $3,000 each – a low ball number – [...]
A while ago I presented a talk in Virginia, and briefly blogged about it t00, mentioning to the audience the new regulations of their nearest neighbors, Maryland. Maryland is the first in the country to impose the coolest new requirement to graduate from high school — something called environmental literacy. In other words, before receiving [...]
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