President Obama Wants to #ActOnClimate

     If you haven't yet seen the White House video featuring President Obama and Climate Change, it is below. Do yourself a favor and take a look.

     The action we take now (or fail to take) will determine the state of the world for centuries to come. We must act now!

Meme Predicts Study Results

     I posted this meme last year sometime. I think I posted it again some time early this year. Here it is again just to refresh your memory.

     And for those of you that always brush aside memes as silly internet speak with no basis in fact, here's the article that provides documentation that the meme is indeed real. Suck it.

     Its the truth. We can measure this accurately because its only been a few hundred years since we started doing it.

   

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

     August was quite the busy month. Spent my first ever night in the hospital (it was for something very minor and the German Healthcare system is fantastic!), I started the last Module of my German class which will lead up to my big exam in October and the difficulty level went from meh...to "Holy shit this doesn't make any sense!". I also have a 4 month old and an empty lot around the house that I am trying to take care of simultaneously. Did I mention I have a baby? I have a wife, too, and she is amazing. Needless to say the blog posts have suffered this month and I am sorry. Life happens, right?

     Now my mother is visiting for a few weeks, and after is the last few weeks of my course and then the test. I suspect that I will get back into the swing of things in a month or so. So fear not, loyal readers (both of you), I will return with e vengeance!

     In the meantime, here's a webinar from The Climate Reality Project that discusses the Business of Climate Solution. Many climate change deniers keep belly aching that fighting climate change will ruin the world economy and cost people jobs. Quite the opposite is true. There is so much to be done in order to adjust and adapt to our changing climate. There is actually money to be made as we switch to a more sustainable society. Check out the video below to learn more.

Rich Doesn't Make One Smart

     I'm not sure about you, but I think Donald Trump is an idiot. I don't care how rich a person is. All the money in the world doesn't make one smarter than everyone else. It just makes someone a bigger, more pompous asshole. Trump thinks because he speaks his mind and is a millionaire, he knows more than everyone. Including hard working and brilliant scientists.

     Take for example this article in Eco-Watch. http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/21/trump-keystone-xl/

     Trump dismisses the studies that say the Keystone Pipeline will harm the environment in anyway. He thinks the endangered species that live in the proposed pipeline areas will be just fine with spilled oil, increased human activity and further disruption of their natural habitat. Trump thinks that burning more oil wont add more CO2 to the atmosphere which can lead to higher temperatures and shutting climate patterns. Trump dismisses the additional pollution, in the form of toxic organic chemicals and heavy metals, that will enter the air and water columns and disrupt normal life cycles, in the wild as well as in the civilized areas of the country. Trump just waves all of these off because as a rich guy, he doesn't have to read any studies or scientific findings or acknowledge facts that could potentially reduce profits. His wealth nullifies facts and best practices. 

     It's this kind of ignorance that has destroyed eco-systems world-wide and created the Climate and Environmental Crisis we now face. It's hard enough to address these issues as it is, and now we have to deal with rich buffoons like Trump on top of everything? Trump may be entertaining, but he offers us no chance at progress. Trump offers us more of the same destructive behavior that created the damaged the planet and its life forms and put us in this position in the first place.