Category: politics
So much has come down the political pipe in the past few days I've barely had time to think about science. Plus, I'm just about to head off for a 10-day vacation back on Canadian Shield birthright, so I need...
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 11:22 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: religiosity
If theists can be confused about their belief, why shouldn't some atheists be confused about their lack of belief?
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:48 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
It would mean getting everyone on board, introducing a cap-and-trade regulatory regime for all fossil-fuels, reorganizing sales taxes and whatnot, but those are only political hurdles. Technologically, there's no reason why it couldn't be done.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:43 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: religiosity
The way I see, it "In God We Trust" is more offensive than "I Believe."
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:46 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
Sixty years is a blink of the metaphorical eye on geological time scales, and it's still damn fast when you're talking about climate change. While it may be far too long for Wall Street to worry about, six decades is...
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
It's a wasteful process, sort of like turning gold into lead. Or composting caviar.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 2:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
Among the most common arguments to emerge from attendees of the climate-change slide show we members of Al Gore's Climate Project hear is "what about nuclear energy?" After all, it doesn't produce any greenhouse gas emissions, at least not while...
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:46 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
The jobs it would mean, and the impact on urban planning would be staggering, but welcome.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:39 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
Even existing alternatives take time to introduce. And we may be running out of the kind of time needed to bring about the necessary transition.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 1:22 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
It's not so much what we know as the trends associated with what we don't that are so convincing.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:54 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks