Chris White A super-intelligent hybrid human-computer — i.e. artificial intelligence — might be the ticket to solving “wicked” problems like global warming and war, researchers at the Human Computation Institution (HCI) and at Cornell University suggest. If only scientists could find a way to combine the creative abilities of humans with the immense data analyzing…
Chris White A professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst told his students earlier this month that human beings are in the midst of a “sixth mass extinction,” according to audio obtained and published Tuesday by The College Fix. “We humans are creating the conditions for our own extinction as a species,” Timothy Pachirat, a comparative…
Andrew Follett Bernie Sanders stated on Twitter Monday that “nobody can recall” 65-degree temperatures on Christmas Eve, only to be “berned” by an engineering professor, who promptly listed six prior occasions. The warm Christmas weather on the East Coast wasn’t an anomaly by historic standards, as shown by the professor. The National Weather Service backs up the professor’s claim by…
Michael Bastasch United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised former Republican President George W. Bush for kickstarting efforts to put together a global agreement to fight global warming. “That was the beginning of our success,” Ban told The Associated Press Saturday, referring to Bush’s attendance of U.N. global warming talks in 2007. After refusing to ratify…
Andrew Follett Environmentalists are increasingly claiming that global warming is a “women’s issue” and that the world needs “eco-feminism” as a path forward. “We know that the world’s poor feel the effects of climate change most acutely, but it turns out there is an even more vulnerable subset to that population: women” reads the article…
Chris White Insatiably angry climate activists took to the streets of Paris near the Arc de Triomphe to decry the finished climate deal as a mass killer of millions of people. “The Paris Agreement is a death sentence for many people,” former climate negotiator for Bolivia, Pablo Solón, told Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman Monday. “A…
Andrew Follett Yahoo News allowed “social justice” warriors to take over its climate coverage Friday by publishing an article claiming global warming is making the day a microsecond longer. Yahoo News got the article from the “social justice” website TakePart.com. According to its website, TakePart.com “is the digital division of Participant Media,” the company behind the left-wing “documentaries” “CITIZENFOUR,” “An…
Andrew Follett Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. and developed world will not help the environment or even slow down global warming at the United Nations Paris summit Wednesday. “If all the industrial nations went down to zero [carbon dioxide] emissions, it wouldn’t be enough. Not when more…
Steve Birr The Obama administration recently dealt another blow to the coal industry, reaching an agreement with world leaders to end global financing of new coal plants in a deal that will restrict cheap energy options for developing nations. The agreement between members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will end export…
Andrew Follett Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he wants to fight global warming using the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, but doing so will hurt the very people he claims to champion: everyday working Americans. The Clean Power Plan is expected to cost a staggering $41 billion annually. The plan will eliminate most cheap coal and natural…