On June 2, 2017, in a Letter regarding US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement addressed to the MIT community, Professor Rafael Reif, president of MIT, criticized President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Accords. In this refutation, we propose to clarify the scientific understanding of the Earth’s climate and to dispel the expensively fostered…
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US May Be Defenseless Against New Hypersonic Missiles
On June 3, Russia tested a hypersonic missile system a year ahead of a preannounced schedule I previously reported that it says will make all U.S. defense systems obsolete. Named “Zircon,” Russia’s international news site Sputnik suggests that the 4,600 mile per hour (six times the speed of sound) missile with its 250 mile…
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The Odious Fiction Destroying America
A false belief that most all Americans hold to in our day is the idea that the Ll.S. Supreme Court is the final arbiter of what is constitutional or unconstitutional. The adherents of this belief – and there is a sea of lawyers in this country who have a vested interest in furthering this odious…
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More rational policies in our future?
Trump’s Paris decision challenges bad science, economics and energy politics behind treatyIn the wake of President Trump’s exit from the Paris climate treaty, reactions from other quarters were predictably swift, nasty, sanctimonious and hypocritical. Al Gore paused near one of the private jets he takes to hector lesser mortals to say the action will…
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Presidential Executive Order Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq., and in order to maintain global leadership in energy innovation, exploration, and production, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Findings.…
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‘If People Knew What Was Happening in Mexico, They’d Have Called for a Wall a Long Time Ago’: Intelligence Source
When Americans think about the deadliest countries in the world, the first thoughts that might come to mind are places like Syria and Iraq. Syria is the most deadly country in the world with over 50,000 fatalities in 2016 alone, and Iraq is the third most deadly with 17,000 estimated deaths. But the number…