Our founding fathers cited “self-evident” truths in the Declaration of Independence. Truth has a strong list of supporters predating that Declaration by millennia. Hindu and Buddhist scriptures hold truth in high regard. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, beginning with the Ten Commandments, mandate truthfulness. As Jesus said, “…the truth will make you free.”
Read More »A Close Shave with Occam’s Razor
Global climate change is simple. Two things drive it: population, energy. All else links back to these two drivers.
Read More »Science Is Never Settled, but Climate Change Science Is Reliable
The IPCC is reliable, not infallible, and therein lies a problem. Data-collection technologies and analytical techniques constantly change. (Think PC updates!) These changes exacerbate uncertainties inherent in climate-change research. IPCC reports include uncertainties. Climate-change denialists undermine IPCC reports by exploiting uncertainties.
Read More »FāVS Religion News Roundup: A Pastor, a Hispanic Festival and a New Climate Change Law
This FāVS Religion News Roundup covers the Rev. Liv Larson transitioning from her pastor role at Salem Lutheran Church, the Salvation Army Food Bank receiving a 40,000 pound donation of food from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the third annual Tacos y Tequila Festival and new statewide climate change legislation for local governments.
Read More »Descending into Summer’s Dog Days Should Lead Us to Better Care for the Earth
Some might claim that in the Inland Northwest the nights are not hot enough and the air is not humid enough to create that real wrap-around Dog Day experience from which night and shade offer little respite.
Read More »The Greenhouse Effect Was Discovered by Eunice Foote, Many Still Ignore Her Warning
July 17th marked the 204th birthday of Eunice Foote, the woman who, in 1856, first demonstrated warming effects of carbon on the atmosphere. You may never have heard of her, reports Smithsonian Magazine, because this suffragette-scientist was a woman. Her findings were initially ignored.
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