Tag: Climate Change

From the president’s Twitter account: Here is the tweet he was replying to including the video of Greta Thunberg at the UN. Most of the media is saying that the president is mocking Ms. Thunberg…if so I don’t think the president posted this tweet. It’s far too subtle. So I…

Many of us realized that Republican Senator Ron Johnson was in over his head during the primary during his first campaign for US Senate. A full blown product of the Tea Party explosion, anti-science denier of climate change and an opponent of affordable health care for Americans…Senator ‘Sun Spots’ Johnson…

What an amazing thing. We all knew exactly when it would occur…and exactly at which time in each part of the country. We had maps to tell us where the totality was going to happen…millions of us travelled to those areas to enjoy the eclipse…and we had silly glasses to…

Historians and pundits have often said America owned the 20th Century and that if not careful, China would come to own the 21st. Well China has been resolutely working towards that end while cornering the market on rare earths, raw materials in third world countries, enhancing their position in the…

Published today by the Associated Press, a little article about Democratic Mayors fighting climate change at the local level in spite of Republican governors remaining skeptics. So yes, as I stated earlier, things can be done without convincing everyone that they need to believe that climate change exists: For coastal…

So, we have overwhelming scientific consensus that recent global warming is anthropogenic, i.e. human caused. And what’s the reaction from some of Wisconsin’s prominent conservative politicians? Enter the Ostrich Caucus. While sticking their heads in the sand on climate change, 14 Wisconsin conservatives simultaneously signed the Koch brothers backed ”…

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson has garnered some national attention – albeit not necessarily positive – for his claim that sunspots are the cause of global warming: My favorite has to be the anchor practically bursting into the laughter at the end of the clip. And speaking of Ron…

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson, who’s not a believer in all that man-made global warming mumbo jumbo, has a simple explanation for the extreme weather linked to global warming: sunspots! A global warming skeptic, Johnson said extreme weather phenomena were better explained by sunspots than an overload of carbon…

State Senator Glenn Grothman, always entertaining, proposes an amendment to the Clean Energy Jobs Act cutting the required percentage of renewable energy use in Wisconsin by 2015, from 10% to 8%. Grothman claims, “the state currently has far more energy supply than energy demand” and the mandate for renewable energy…