Steven Koonin’s new book, Unsettled, is an excellent introduction to climate science by an award-winning teacher. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to develop an informed judgment on the most important scientific issue of this decade. by Richard Schulman Dr. Koonin has impressive academic and governmental credentials. He has a BS from Caltech […]
Democrats have become the anti-science party
by Richard Schulman In their pursuit of identity politics, Democrats have become the anti-science party. In Hawaii, they are supporting Native Hawaiian activists preventing the construction of the planned Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea. If ever built, the telescope’s optics will advance knowledge of how galaxies began in the early universe and what […]
Astronauts, Trump support Zubrin plan for Mars
Robert Zubrin, The Case for Space (Prometheus Books, 2019) Reviewed by Richard Schulman This Sunday, July 21st, is a bittersweet anniversary. The sweet side of the remembrance is that it’s the fiftieth anniversary of the date the first humans — US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin — walked on the Moon. The bitter side […]
Global warming lobby ends year in defeat
The year 2018 has not been a happy one for the global warming lobby. President Trump took the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, but it is the US that has reduced its CO2 emissions, not the posturing signees of the Accord. Meanwhile the Trump administration has opened millions of acres of public lands […]
Winter and spring colder than usual? Here’s why
Winter and spring colder than usual? The NY Daily News, among others, thinks so: The Daily News has no clue as to why this is happening. But those who have read Henri Svensmark and Nigel Calder’s The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change or good summaries do. The solar wind — plasma flares from […]
