Category Archives: Science And Society

A Problem With Our Priorities

Bjorn Lomborg:

Why are we so singularly focused on climate change when there are many other areas where the need is also great and we could do so much more with our effort?

He explains. (Hint: it has more to do with saving our souls than with saving the planet.)

[Update a few minutes later]

Funny, Saint Al doesn’t seem willing to debate the issue.

Not surprising to me. He’s not the brightest bulb on the string, and probably wouldn’t hold up very well to people who actually understand it.

And no, contra comments, this is not an expression of “hate for Al Gore.” It’s simply a dispassionate assessment of his intelligence, particularly considering that he flunked out of divinity school. How dim do you have to be to manage that?

Good Article John!

Tierney wrote a better article than I could Tuesday about why the legacy for the ages that can happen in our lifetimes is the first footprints on Mars. The sponsor could be remembered as the next “Prince Henry the Navigator, King Ferdinand, [or] Queen Isabella”. This is an argument I implied here in a scholarly way and in passing here in a grandiose way and a whimsical way here. In the process I attempt to refute Jeff Bell and James Van Allen who are both opposed.

Wind Shear

A tutorial. This should be of interest to anyone in hurricane country. In many ways, wind shear is a more important factor in the intensity of storms than water temperature (one reason that the effect of global warming, if it occurs, is not obvious, with respect to more or more intense hurricanes).