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Global Warming: Take Off My Sweater?
There is a new UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report . It contains nothing but bad news, of course. But I am busy with my real life; I have obligations to others; I have to feed myself and shower; … Continue reading
Posted in Facts Matter, Socio-Political Essays
Tagged climate chnage, global warming, ICCP
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Global Warming for the Rational: Tutorial 1
Right before New Year 2018, I commented on my Facebook Page on the lack of comments regarding the extreme cold raging in Canada and in the north of the US. We are talking about actual record-breaking low temperatures. I meant … Continue reading
Climate Change Fiascoes and the Second Amendment
In the week ending April 9th 2016, the Climate Change campaign suffered not one but two fiascoes. I am not sure that anyone besides me noticed. People are busy. They work; they rear their children. Many don’t have time … Continue reading
Cave Paintings and Elementary Science
This is a travel story of sorts, of travel through time, to an extent. Be patient. Directly to the west of Marseille, the second largest city in France are a series of beautiful, narrow coves, like fjords, situated in a … Continue reading
Posted in Socio-Political Essays
Tagged cave paintings, climate change, Cosquer cave, global warming, Marseille, oceans rising, scientific method
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Bad Day for Favorite Liberal Causes (Corrected)
An earlier version of this posting contained a big mistake. Shame on those who read it for not yelling! Amnesty International, that well-known right wing conspiracy organization just came up with disturbing news. According to AI, Hamas, which governs the … Continue reading
Facts vs Narrative: American Peronismo
Anyone who has written anything other than an accident report, maybe even only three letters to his mother, knows or guesses the following: facts often interfere with the quality of a narrative. Only very great writers manage to incorporate all … Continue reading
Posted in Socio-Political Essays
Tagged abortion, Argentina, Arizona immigration law, Buenos Aires, Canada, climate change, Communist Party, Cuba, Deomocratic Party, fascism, GDP/capita, glass ceiling, global warming, illegal immigrants, Mercedes Sosa, out-of-wedlock births, Peronismo, racism, Rio Grande, summer camp, tango, War on Poverty
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Global Warming and Scholarly Conspiracies, etc. Part Two
In Part One of Scholarly Conspiracies, Scholarly Corruption and Global Warming, I drew on my own experience as a scholar to describe how the scientific enterprise can easily become corrupted for anodyne, innocent reasons, for reasons that are not especially … Continue reading
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Tagged American Heart Association, climate change, corruption, duodenum ulcer, FRance, glaciers, global warming, I Used to Be French, I used to Be French: an Immature Autobiography, melting glaciers, National Geographic, Nina Teisholz, Rising Seas, saturated fats, scholarly, science, scientific, stomach ulcer, The Big Fat Surprise, Type II diabetes
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Democrat Incompetence and Mendacity, in Nine Points
President Obama, during his first campaign, declared forcefully and clearly that he would close Guantanamo Bay prison within a year. There was no qualifications, no “ifs” and “buts;” it was a simple straightforward and forceful declaration of intention. It’s been … Continue reading
Scholarly Conspiracies, Scholarly Corruption and Global Warming: Part One
97 % of scientists, blah, blah…. Ridiculous, pathetic. (https://factsmatter.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/massive-shameless-climate-fraud) Some of the cooking behind the 97 %… http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article Thus challenged, some people I actually like throw reading assignments at me. Some are assignment in scholarly journals; some, sort of. Apparently, … Continue reading
Climate Change and Flat Earthers
“There has been no universal trend in the overall extent of drought across the United States since 1900.” “Trends in severe storms, including the intensity and frequency….are uncertain and being studied intensively.” Both quotes are from the fine lines in … Continue reading
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Tagged 97% of scientists, climate change, climate change conference, climate disruption, climate fraud, deniers, Flat Earth, fossil fuesl, global warming, Great Lakes frozen, green house gases, hockey stick, ocean rise, scientific design, Secretary Kerry, Secretary Of State, vegetarianism
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Indecent Stories for Decent Women: Fiction by John René Adolph, a Man (2017)
Les pumas de grande banlieue: histoires d'émigration (2014)
I Used to Be French: an Immature Autobiography (2014)
FACTS MATTER 