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Climate Change

Artificial Intelligence AIClimate ChangeEnlightenment Or Not
April 15, 2019

Ordinary And Necessary Threats To Homo Sapiens

The big three threats today are climate change, artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. Weapons, especially nuclear weapons, pose a far lesser threat. Why? Humans learned long ago that weapons are fearful and destructive, and such knowledge long since has become deep-rooted into the fabric of our neurology. Humans have not…
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Climate Change
June 28, 2017

Climate Change statistics compiled by Bloomberg Businessweek

The executive branch of the USA government under the Trump administration is an embarrassment. In particular, its anti-science policies harm individuals, families, and businesses. Please see Climate Change statistics compiled by Bloomberg Businessweek: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/?utm_source=eSkeptic&utm_campaign=74c713060f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8c0a740eb4-74c713060f-73261597&mc_cid=74c713060f&mc_eid=486304d4bf  
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Climate Change
March 28, 2016

Will Man-Made Climate Change Kill Man?

Nature may select to kill humans. Climate change is inevitable. Humans are the cause recently. Acceleration of warming is a particularly interesting consequence of human activity. Neither nation nor cohort can stop it. No living organism is immune from death. The universe is as indifferent to human existence as to…
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Climate Change
November 19, 2014

USA political parties shun scholarliness, embrace attenuated symbology

USA political parties shun scholarliness, and embrace attenuated symbology postures. Unfortunately, the consequences may be legislation and taxes promoting anti-scientific, faith-based views. See below article.   Eine andere Welt POSTED ON NOV. 14, 2014 BY DONALD PROTHERO | COMMENTS (36) INSIGHT is not a political blog. However, the travelogue format Dr. Prothero has…
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Climate Change
October 14, 2014

UNEDUCATED POLITICIANS TRUMP SCIENCE !!?

    UNEDUCATED POLITICIANS TRUMP SCIENCE !!?   Political talk in the USA largely has been reduced to Fox-News-style smug complaining. There are few discussions – mostly rants. Government is not politics, and politics is not government. Politics is what we see on TV. Government is walking into the Post…
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Climate Change
August 12, 2014

Mortgages and Climate Change

Climate Change Is Driving More Mortgages Underwater By Laura Kiesel In May, the White House released its Third U.S. National Climate Assessment, which asserted that the adverse impacts of climate change are already being felt around the nation. Now a new report attempts to put a price tag on some…
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