Follow up: Wildfires and Hurricanes 2023
Total acreage burned less than 1/2 the ten year annual average.
Public health: Former NIH Director says public health was not capable of evaluating benefits versus harms
Former NIH Director says public health gave infinite value to potentially preventing one death, and 0 value to the costs and harms to accomplish that.
Automation: Lots of white-collar jobs will go away
2024 is the year that AI begins eliminating white-collar jobs.
Climate: EVs vs ICE – cars are a smaller part of emissions than most realize
Little known fact - personal autos are a small part of U.S. carbon emissions.
Climate, Economy, Education, Etc: Shhhh-don’t tell anyone but much is getting better
Improvements | Gapminder Ask any journalist and they will tell you their purpose: Or as Poynter now writes it: This is interpreted as finding something that someone views as wrong…
TBI: Even mild head injuries can have lifelong effects
Even "mild" traumatic brain injuries, like concussions, can have life long effects.
Climate: Proponents of “degrowth” say must grow their field of study first
Science has become a joke. Paper in Nature advocates economic degrowth, but first, we must give more funding and grow the degrowth complex.
Climate: UK – “Polar vortex ‘bomb’ set to unleash 15 days of snow”
I'm so old, I remember when the British press said "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past".
Climate: How to realistically reduce carbon emissions
How can we realistically achieve carbon emission reductions?
Climate: We must ban all air travel IMMEDIATELY
The Extinction Rebellion mental illness community says we must stop flying immediately.