Climate Lynx

  A Lot of People are Saying When I was about a year into my global warming research my investigations lead to no credible information indicating it was not happening. There were, though, many and various theories which conflicted with the consensus that man is warming the earth by burning fossil fuels. Skeptical Science .com has identified 217 denial myths and denial conspiracy theories. The website is a great reference point to start any climate investigation. After months of investigation, it was my naïve belief I could effectively bring science to the climate conversation and dispel the false theories. Note I admit I was naïve. In many quarters facts are of no value.   I wish I had first read the book, “A Lot of People are Saying” before I started my years of climate work. According to the authors, professors Robert Clements and Nancy Rosenblum, many citizens of the USA fail to question the validity of conspiracy theories. Instead of engaging in the work required t...

I love swamps, bogs, and wetlands. This is where water meets the land and life flourishes. This is where ducks and bugs and the big bucks hang out. Maybe I am a swamp person! I am not a Cajun, one of the French Canadians who relocated to the bayous of the Mississippi Delta and call Louisiana home. I am certainly not like my Army Ranger bud who, for fun, swims and slithers through swamps at night to sneak up on whatever he can find.   I love swamps but maybe I am not a true swamp person. Historically, swamp people were people escaping persecution like our American Indians and Blacks. It is very difficult to subdue swamp people. The Seminole Indians of Florida, who the US Government spent tens of millions to kill, subdue, and remove, were able to hold out for years fighting guerrilla warfare from the Everglades. In fact, about 200 never surrendered, surviving by remaining deep within their protector, the swamp. There are European swamp people too like the Dutch. Ingenious I...

Back in November of 2016, after extensive research, I wrote an article imploring people to resist the urge to vote tribally and instead respect the science community and heed its warnings about our deteriorating climate. Here is the Letter to the Editor I sent to many newspapers titled: “No more Tribal Voting”    “Today Meteorologist Paul Hutner informed us that Minneapolis will have its longest growing season ever. The arctic temperatures are running 5 to 10 degrees above average. The arctic sea ice is at an all-time low. Science is not political. Unfortunately, we do not think with a scientific brain. Studies in sociology, psychology, and evolutionary social biology all say the human mind thinks in terms of tribe. We are tribal in origin. We vote tribally. For a brief period in our history we edged, as a nation, towards science as a more logical means of decision making. That, I believe, peaked somewhere in the 50s or 60s. Today kids rank down around 20 th in the wo...