I recently read that phrase, confidently ignorant, and it stuck in my mind. It fits in with attitudes toward social media and artificial intelligence. How often do you or your kids do a search on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or whatever your favorite search engine is, and never click beyond the first page? Chances are that’s…
Tag: climate change
YOU’LL GET A CHARGE OUT OF THIS!
It seems that there are those in the world who consider themselves so intelligent that they have the right—no, not only the right but the obligation—to tell the rest of us how we must live our lives. One of those demands they are making of us is eliminating the use of fossil fuel. And, in…
BELIEVE IT—OR NOT!
Regardless of your age, you must have heard of Robert Ripley’s “Believe It or Not.” Beginning in 1918, he searched out happenings that were so outlandish that people might not believe they could be true. Perhaps one of the elements that keep many from accepting the alarmism of global climate change is their advocates determination…
YOUR KIDS: 2022 IN RETROSPECT
I’ve been thinking about our kids, and how they are affected by growing up in today’s society. So, in this last blog post of this year I am going to ask you to reflect with me and consider what has changed to uplift them, and what is still in need of perfecting. January: 14th: IS…
INQUIRING, PREDISPOSED, OR PREDETERMINED? – Part 2
Remember those questions I told you to have your kid think about in the last post? One of them was, “Can you find any reason other than climate change that can cause the oceans to warm?” How successful were they? This post may seem a little “nerdy,” but it will give your kids some ammunition if…
INQUIRING, PREDISPOSED, OR PREDETERMINED?
How do you teach your kids to approach learning? Do you want them to have an inquiring mind, letting it lead them broader and deeper into the information? Have they become predisposed to an answer or point of view? Or do they have a mindset that is predetermined about a subject, and they only want…
ENDING USE OF FOSSIL FUELS: POSSIBLE? PRACTICAL? – Climate Part 3
Strident claims and harsh efforts are being made to end the use of fossil fuels. But let’s step back and take an objective look at whether that is a practical way to proceed or if it is even possible in today’s circumstances. Technology is permitting our civilization to exist and prosper. Every year each source…
CALIFORNIA PUTS MORATORIUM ON CHARGING EVs – Climate Part 2
We are often admonished to reduce our carbon footprint. If we don’t, we are told, the earth will end in seven? eight? ten years?! One of the much-touted routes to carbon reduction is switching from cars with combustion engines to electric vehicles. This is not a new idea. Back in 1903, Thomas Edison was trying…
WHAT CAN YOUR KIDS BELIEVE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
The previous post proposed the idea that what kids learn in school about climate change may be confusing them—or sending them on the road to an energy abyss. Today we’re going to see how our climate change leaders are deliberately and maliciously, or through sheer ignorance, telling us and our kids falsehoods about the dreaded…
CLIMATE CHANGE CONFUSION
Are we force-feeding climate change confusion to our kids? I imagine there’s not a single kid who isn’t learning about the imminent danger of climate change in school. I wonder how many of them are permitted to dispute what they are being taught. Or how many even know there are differing opinions on the subject….