Fake News and Facts About Replacing Fossil Fuels with Renewable Energy 

In the last 20 years, there has been a much-heralded effort to reduce greenhouse emissions (and, thus, inhibit climate change) by replacing the use of fossil fuels with “renewable” energy sources (e.g., wind and solar power).

There has been some debate about the core thesis, and there have been plenty of serious arguments that the current ideas in favor, including some that have been inscribed into law, will not achieve the intended objectives.

It won’t surprise you to know that I’m drawn to those sorts of skeptical perspectives. But had you asked me to give you an estimate of the success so far in reducing the level of greenhouse gasses that are released every year, I probably would have guessed that – given the hundreds of laws passed and the trillions of dollars spent over the past 20 years – it was probably in the 20% to 30% range.

And boy, would I have been wrong! Take a look at this short post by James Melville.

Calling for Trump’s Assassination Before the Attempted Assassination 

Lat night, I came across this piece, which aired on Sky News about three weeks ago: a number of public figures and pundits calling for – literally, calling for – someone to assassinate Trump.

What’s interesting is that the commentators consider the idea of an attempted assassination so implausible that they treat these calls for him to be killed as ludicrous.