My 13-year-old son did everything to try to make it work, but it was too difficult — Myopia is also called nearsightedness. It’s on the rise, mostly because kids stare at screens much of the day and don’t go outside as much as we used to when I was a kid. When I was a kid, I had a bow and a quiver of arrows, tennis racket…

I’m sorry to tell you that they’re gone. They’re all gone now. The signs. They removed them. My favorite piece on this is Michael Crichton’s Aliens Cause Global Warming, which he wrote in 2003.

An overview of important content 1: My overview video Last week, I published this video on the greenhouse effect and thermal equilibrium. It’s geared toward the inquisitive lay person who wants to learn about climate science but doesn’t want to get too caught up in the details. It is technical but approachable and clearly…

A new video shows how the greenhouse effect actually works Last year, I wrote this essay, which confused two different energy systems: the emissions equilibrium and the thermal equilibrium. When I learn I’m wrong about something, I try to figure out what I got wrong and change my view to…

Last week, I wrote the story of The Great Famine of the 21st Century — please read and share that if you haven’t. Deep Geothermal We don’t have enough surface geothermal energy to make much of a difference in the energy mix. But there is plenty of heat 20km down. If we…

A cautionary tale of our future climate — The year is 2078. It is year three of a devastating drought, famine, and extreme heat event around the globe. In the last three years, some 30–60 million people have perished. It has already been called the most deadly environmental disaster to ever befall humanity. It started with the worst…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Reprinted from the original at WattsUpWithThat by permission of the author. I got to thinking about the Berkeley Earth global temperature dataset. So I got their gridded file “Monthly Land + Ocean Average Temperature with Air Temperatures at Sea Ice” covering 1850 to 2021 and…

Let’s not fix education; let’s blow it up and start over — If I had told you twenty years ago that almost everyone would trade land lines and laptops for mobile phones, you probably wouldn’t have believed me. And yet, that transition happened without much complaining, because consumers weren’t looking for a better landline phone. They were looking for freedom. In the…