Dangerous Idealism and Decrepit Truths: Nuclear Power and Global Warming

Through Stockmann, Ibsen further makes a seminal comment on what are essentially ‘grand narratives’, like ‘global warming’:

“But truths are not the rugged old Methuselahs people imagine them to be. An averagely constructed truth lasts - let me see - seventeen or eighteen years as a rule, twenty years at the most; hardly ever longer. And truths as ancient as that are always dreadfully threadbare”*

‘Global warming’ is now just over twenty years old, and it is certainly beginning to look a tad “threadbare”. Still, I don’t mind if a new generation of nuclear power plants is built in its name; by contrast, it would be a disaster if this were to be prevented by those who profess to believe in this ‘old truth’, but who, through their warped idealism, are unable to express their belief in necessary action.

Skeptic's Corner: Forget about Polar Bears, What about Orangutans?

In all seriousness, although I do not believe that bio-fuels will help solve a problem that does not exist AGW, this is another example of the unintended consequences of the alarmist mentality. Very real forest are being decimated to provide farmland not for the feeding of people or livestock, but the feeding of an ideology that would sacrifice the very thing they claim to cherish, the planet Earth, at the alter of their scientific-religion. It is not only pathetically stupid it is so very sad.

April 14: A Las Vegas Winter Wonderland

After completing the drive back from Area 51 with my wife and our two friends from Australia it was quite dark out by the time we got to Las Vegas and the snow had stopped. We were all quite hungry and much like when I took my friends to Denny’s, I couldn’t let them leave America without trying a burger at an IN-N-OUT. So once we got back to the strip I immediately began to drive over to the IN-N-OUT when suddenly it began to snow heavily...