Environment & Energy

...on climate that ignores the fact that science relies on the analysis of something called "data."

I was very annoyed some years back when I went to a "pro-science" demonstration where as we marched toward the state Capitol the chant broke out as follows:

"WHAT DO WE WANT?!?"

The response:

"RENEWABLE ENERGY!"

"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?!?"

"NOW!!!!"

Um, um, um....

There is no data that suggests that so called "renewable energy" has anything to do with addressing the extreme global heating now observed on a planetary scale. It has more to do with faith. Fondness for it has very little to do with science. In fact this fondness was totally a function of attacking the only novel form of primary energy discovered in centuries by some of the finest scientists of the 20th century, nuclear energy.

Before parading enthusiasm for science one should understand something about what science is. It's connected intimately with data.

Again there is no data to support the reactionary fondness for solar and wind energy which has been subject to human employ for millennia has anything at all to do with addressing extreme global heating. They were increasingly abandoned in the 19th and 20th century for a reason, that being they could no longer accommodate neither the needs nor the whims of humanity.

The data behind the existence of extreme global heating is unambiguous. It's is also unambiguously clear that nothing effective is being done to address it. You know the cliché: "Doing the same thing over and over..."