Geoengineering and Ocean Acidification Off the Coast of California
One of the possible solutions to climate change is geoengineering. Various types of geoengineering have been proposed over the years, but the best studied of them is to simply release vast amounts of aerosols into the atmosphere. The aerosols reflect light and thereby reduce the amount of solar heat that reaches the surface of the…
Bribery Explained Using Boolean Logic
The Democratic report on impeachment accuses President Trump of, among other things, criminal bribery. What’s up with that? Wasn’t it really extortion? Allow me to Boolesplain: Extortion: If you don’t announce an investigation of Joe Biden then I won’t approve your military aid package. Bribery: If I do approve your military aid package then you…
How Are the Unrich Doing These Days?
David Leonhardt says we shouldn’t believe the GDP numbers that are released every quarter. It’s not that they’re inaccurate, it’s just that they show only a national aggregate. What we should be interested in is how various income groups are doing. It’s all very well to say that GDP has gone up 2 percent, but…
California Bullet Train Continues Its Hallucinatory Ways
This is an artist’s conception. It will be a very long time before California has anything more than that.California High-Speed Rail Authority The California bullet train, which is so far behind schedule that it can hardly be said to have a schedule anymore, is nonetheless going forward with a contract they don’t have the money…
Under GOP Pressure, Congress Shortchanges Election Security
Renee Jones Schneider/TNS via ZUMA Wire Congress will give states an additional $425 million in election security funding as part of the budget deal reached last week, adding a much needed, but still insufficient, boost to ballot security across the country. The funds will be disbursed through the Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency tasked…
Cory Booker Just Went All-In Against Factory Farming and the Meat Industry
As his presidential bid struggles to gain traction, Sen. Cory Booker (D.-N.J.) is out with a bold new bill, introduced Dec. 16, that proposes a serious crackdown on two powerful industries: meat and dairy. It might seem like a strange thing move for a candidate seeking to increase his broad appeal in a meat-loving nation—especially…