-
Recent Posts
- Climate Change in the Second Trump Reich July 4, 2024
- Flooding of US and Local Southern California Facilities by 2100 in Low and High Sea Level Rise Scenarios June 29, 2024
- The Ten Commandments in The Age of Trump June 22, 2024
- The Breakthrough Increases of Graduate Student Teaching Assistant and Research Salaries, and Postdoctoral Salaries, and Their Subsequent Effects May 23, 2024
- Forecasting the Weather with AI Analysis of the European Weather Forecast Model May 20, 2024
- The Construction and Uses of Exascale Computing May 19, 2024
- Weight Loss Drugs are the Science Magazine Breakthrough of 2023 May 17, 2024
- Alzheimer’s Drug’s Breakthrough of 2023 May 13, 2024
- Studying Electron Motions With Attosecond Pulses, Nobel Physics Prize in 2023 April 24, 2024
- SC Edison New Countdown to 2045, and Emissions to Reach 1.5º C Now Cut in Half November 4, 2023
Recent Comments
Categories
- 2015 Fundamental Physics Prize
- 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 2016 Election
- 2016 Primaries
- 2017 Georgia Special Election
- 2017 South Carolina Special Election
- 2018
- 2018 California Primary
- 2018 Global Climate Analysis
- 2018 Midterm Election
- 2020 Election
- 2020 Primaries
- 2022 Election
- 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 2024 Election
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Abortions
- About This Blog
- Affairs of State
- Affordable Care Act
- Africa
- AG William Barr
- AHCA
- AI Weather Forecasting
- Air Quality
- Air Travel Emissions
- Al Gore
- Algorithms
- Alzheimer’s
- America's Pledge
- American Carnage
- American Lung Association
- AR6 Physical
- Armed Teachers
- Artificial Intelligence
- Assault Weapons
- Automated Driving
- Autos
- BA.5 Variant
- Baseball Statistics
- Benefits of the United Nations
- Big Data
- Black Death
- Black Holes
- Bonn Climate Conference
- Brain Drain
- Breakthrough Starshot
- Breitbart
- BRexit
- Build Back Better bill
- CAFE Standards
- California Democratic Primary
- California Federal Funding
- California Flood Maps
- California Housing Fires
- California Oil
- California Power Mixes
- California Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
- California Smog
- California University Rankings
- California Water
- Cambridge Analytica
- Canadian Wildfire air pollution
- Capitol Invasion
- Carbon Tax
- CCA Questions
- Chain Immigration
- Children
- China
- CHIP Childrens Health
- Cladding Fires
- Clean Energy
- Climate Change
- Climate Education
- Climate Science
- Clinton
- Coal
- Coastal Flooding
- Coastal States
- Communications
- Congress
- Congressional Investigation
- Conservation
- Constitution
- Coronavirus
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Cosmology
- COVID-19
- Criminal Justice System
- Cybersecurity
- Dana Rohrabacher CA 48th
- Delta Variant
- Democracy
- Democracy Ratings
- Department of Defense
- Department of Education
- Department of Energy
- Donald Trump
- Dreamers
- E. Coli
- Earth
- Earthquakes
- Eclipse
- Economies
- Education
- Electric Cars
- Electric Power
- Emissions to 1.5º C
- Endangered Species Act
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy in Hurricane Harvey
- EPA
- Equal Treatment Under the Law
- Equality of Opportunity Project
- Equivalent Electric Car Emissions
- Establishment Clause
- Exascale Computing
- Exoplanets
- F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina
- Families Belong Together
- FBI Director
- Federal University Funding
- Fifth Amendment
- Fire Diversion
- Fire Risks
- First Amendment
- Food Stamps
- Foods
- Fossil Fuel Energy
- Foundation
- Fox News
- Free Trade
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of the Press
- Freedom to Assemble
- Freedom to Petition
- Freedoms
- Funding Breakthrough
- Fusion
- Game of Thrones
- Gasoline
- GDP per Capita by States
- Gerrymandering
- Gil Cisneros
- Global Climate Action Summit
- Global Health Security Index
- Government Shutdown
- Governors and State Legislatures
- Gravitational Waves
- Green Rate Plans
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Gun Control
- Guns
- H-1B Visas
- Half-Pipe
- Harley Rouda
- Havana Syndrome
- Health Care
- Higgs Boson
- Household Income by States
- Houston Flooding
- Humor
- Huntington Beach Oil Spill
- Hurricane Dorian
- Hurricane Florence
- Hurricane Ian
- Hurricane Irma
- Hurricane Laura
- Hurricane Pressures
- Hybrid Cars
- Hydropower
- IHME Projections
- Immigration Ban
- Immigration Policy
- Impeachment
- Income
- Inflation
- Inflation Reduction Act
- Infrastructure
- International Students
- Internet Privacy
- IPad Math Symbols
- Iran
- Irvine Water
- Jeff Bezos
- Joe Biden
- Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Cases
- Katie Porter
- Kavanaugh
- Kellyanne
- King Tides
- Korean Militaries
- Lafayette Park
- Laguna Beach Art
- Laguna Beach Energy Savings
- Laguna Beach Flood Levels
- Laguna Beach Rally
- Laguna Beach Transportation
- Larsen C effects
- Las Vegas Massacre
- Life in the Universe
- Los Angeles Congested Traffic
- Lotteries
- March For Our Lives
- March for Science Washington DC
- Market Deregulation
- Mars Exploration
- Mathematics
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- Mayor's Climate Action Plan
- Mercury
- Middle East
- Military Budget
- Mimi Walters CA 45th
- Mitch McConnell
- Moon Mission
- Moon Program
- Movie Analogies
- Mueller Report
- Murray Gell-Mann
- NASA
- National Monuments
- NATO
- Natural Gas
- Negotiations
- NESDIS
- Neutron Star Merger
- New Jersey Democratic Primary
- New York Times Science
- NFL Protests
- NIH
- No More Drilling
- NOAA
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Non-lethal Weapons
- North Korea
- North Korea Nuclear Threat
- North Korean Nuclear Agreement
- NRA
- Nuclear Energy
- Nuclear Weapons
- Ocean Acidification
- Offshore Oil Drilling
- Ohio Voter Purge
- Oil
- OLLI Lecture
- Omicron Variant
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes
- Our Time Matters
- Ozempic
- Paris Climate Accord
- Paris Climate Agreement
- Particle Physics
- PayScale Return on Investment
- Philosophy of Science
- Physics and Crashes
- Physics Departments
- Physics in Movies
- Politics
- Poverty
- Power Content Labels
- Public Confidence
- Puerto Rico
- Purge
- Putin
- Racism
- Rahm Emanuel
- Regulations
- Religion
- Renewable Energy
- Republican Convention
- Reza Aslan
- Rice
- Richard Feynman
- Robert Mercer
- Rowland Hall
- RSV Vaccines
- Russia
- S&E Indicators
- San Onofre
- Saudi Oil Imports
- Savanna and Charleston Flood Maps for Hurricane Ian
- SC Edison
- SC Edison Countdown to 2045
- School Security
- Science and Engineering Education
- Science Breakthrough of 2023
- Science Fiction
- Science Funding
- SDG&E
- Sea Level Rise
- Secrecy
- Secretary of Education
- Secretary of the Interior Zinke
- SETI
- Sharing Content on Zoom on an iPad
- Smog worldwide
- Solar Energy
- Solar Fusion
- Solar Neutrinos and UC Irvine
- Space Travel
- Star Wars Physics
- State Department
- State Mariuana Laws
- Steve Bannon
- Student Loan Debt Relief
- Summary of Climate Topics for Southern California
- Sunsets
- Supreme Court
- Swing States
- Syria
- Tax Laws
- Taxing Tuition Wavers
- Ten Commandments
- Terrorism
- Texas
- Time Travel
- Trade With Mexico
- Transportation
- Travel Ban
- Trump Administration
- Trump Budget
- Trump Impeachment
- Trump Insurrection
- Trump on Climate Change
- Trump Solar Tariff
- Trump Steel Tariff
- Trump Tax Cuts
- Trump Taxes
- Trump Truthiness
- Trump Voting
- Trump Wall
- Trump's First Armada
- Trump's Immigrant Family
- Trump's Logic
- Trump's Mental Health
- Trumpcare Deaths
- Tsunami
- Turkey
- UC Admissions
- UC Berkeley
- UC Federal Funding
- UC Irvine
- UC Irvine Trees
- UCLA
- Ukraine
- Uncategorized
- United Nations
- University Funding
- University Rankings
- Upward Mobility
- Uranium
- US Climate Mayors
- US Flood Maps
- US Intelligence Agencies
- US Oil
- US Steel Imports
- USGCRP
- Utilities Sizes
- Vaccine Distributions
- Variants of Covid-19
- Voter Fraud
- Voting Rights
- VP Pence
- Wall Street Journal
- Waste Energy
- Wealth
- Western Wildfires
- White House
- Wind Energy
- Women’s Rights
- World Flood Maps
- World Oil Exports
- World Oil Usage
- World Smog
- World Steel Production
- Yemen
- Zika Virus
Meta
Category Archives: EPA
Laguna Beach Visitor versus Resident Pollution
Laguna Beach Visitor versus Resident Pollution David Hanssen has an LA Times article trying to count Laguna Beach visitors. The city says 3 million a year. Visit Laguna says 6 million. But there are only 2,000 parking spaces. And only … Continue reading
The Many Losses of Health, Welfare, National Scientific Capabilities, and International Import by the Trump Administration’s Abandonment of Science
The Many Losses of Health, Welfare, National Scientific Capabilities, and International Import by the Trump Administration’s Abandonment of Science The United States has incredible fortunes in investments in scientific talent, institutions, and industries, that are being not only squandered, … Continue reading
The Trump Administration Wants the HONEST Act to Prevent Science in Regulations
The Trump Administration Wants the HONEST Act to Prevent Science in Regulations Climate Skeptics have burdened climate scientists by going to court to demand all data from climate scientists research, in order to slow them down and drive up … Continue reading
When Was CNN Taken Over by the Koch Brothers?
When Was CNN Taken Over by the Koch Brothers? I left CNN on while I was cleaning house, and was treated to the largest amount of unchallenged climate nonsense. I didn’t keep notes, but the continuous speaker was Stephen … Continue reading
Trump’s Hypocrisy on Dropping Out of Paris and Killing Climate Science
Trump’s Hypocrisy on Dropping Out of Paris and Killing Climate Science It was amazing that Trump dropped out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement without mentioning that he and his compatriots were doing everything they could in the budget … Continue reading
Posted in Affairs of State, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coal, Donald Trump, Economies, Energy Efficiency, EPA, Fossil Fuel Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Paris Climate Agreement, Politics, Renewable Energy, Science Funding, Trump Administration, Trump on Climate Change
Leave a comment
The Trump Cocktail Party to Decide on the Paris Agreement
The Trump Cocktail Party to Decide on the Paris Agreement Imagine a country club cocktail party with fellow billionaires who are politicians, oil billionaires, real estate barons, clothing designers, personal and tax lawyers, a governor of an oil state, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Affairs of State, Autos, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coal, Conservation, Donald Trump, Electric Power, EPA, Fossil Fuel Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Paris Climate Accord, Politics, Steve Bannon, Trump Administration, Trump on Climate Change
Leave a comment
Trump is Gambling With OUR Jobs and OUR Resources by Cancelling Regulations
Trump is Gambling With OUR Jobs and OUR Resources by Cancelling Regulations Trump started his 100 days allowing coal companies to pollute streams, and ended it with erasing the ban on offshore oil drilling in sensitive population zones and … Continue reading
Posted in Affairs of State, Coal, Coastal States, Donald Trump, EPA, Trump Administration
Leave a comment
Impressions from the March for Science in Washington, DC
Impressions from the March For Science in Washington, DC. Many of the speakers are young, and they speak with emotion and fervor, which is not something that an old and calm blogger like me. That is what the movement … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Congress, Conservation, Donald Trump, Education, Endangered Species Act, Energy Efficiency, EPA, Federal University Funding, Fossil Fuel Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, March for Science Washington DC, NIH, NOAA, Renewable Energy, Trump Administration, Trump on Climate Change, University Funding
Leave a comment
Trump and Brain Drains
Trump and Brain Drains Somehow, Dictators are associated with Brain Drains. In historical cases, it is not just dislike for dictators, not just secondary effects of a dictator’s policies, but actual purges carried out by the dictator against academics and … Continue reading
Posted in Affairs of State, Brain Drain, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Congress, Donald Trump, Dreamers, Economies, Education, EPA, Federal University Funding, Fossil Fuel Energy, H-1B Visas, Immigration Ban, Iran, Middle East, NIH, Purge, State Department, Travel Ban, Trump Administration, Trump on Climate Change
Leave a comment
Trump’s Inhumanity to Children
Trump’s Inhumanity to Children While Trump personally cares about children, the people that he let draft his budget (Mick Mulvaney, head of OMB), or copied from the Koch and Mercer funded American Heritage Foundation, had no respect for children at … Continue reading