October 27, 2023

Scientific Method restored to science education in North Carolina

  As a physicist, John Droz holds in high regard the Scientific Method, a 400-year-old approach to investigating reality.   Rooted in Isaac Newton's work, which included creation of the calculus, the Scientific Method has long...

March 25, 2020

Heat is Life, Cold is Death -- Joe Biden has it backwards

Joe Biden’s plan to manage the coronavirus outbreak included a promise to “fight climate change as a driver of health threats” by rejoining the Paris climate treaty on day one of his administration. His proposal went on to state tha...

January 30, 2020

Warming and the Snows of Yesteryear

I was recently reminded of one of the most common misconceptions about our changing climate that is often accepted as fact by climate skeptics and true believers alike. Last week a commentary written by a fellow geologist and colleague lamented the l...

December 2, 2019

The Left's climate change hypocrisy

The United Nations is at it again — trafficking in climate change alarmism to promote its globalist political agendas.  On November 26, 2019, the U.N. released another doom-and-gloom report, claiming that "drastic action...

September 29, 2019

Want mass extinctions? Enact Greta Thunberg's vision

On September 23, an irate 16-year-old Swedish girl told the United Nations General Assembly that her elders are failing to address the supposed dangers of climate change.  Greta Thunberg had arrived in New York the previous week, ironically...

August 7, 2019

Dem candidates trip over each other to declare who will best destroy the economy

When the candidates at the second round of the 2020 Democrat presidential debates weren't calling Donald Trump a racist, they were often railing about the supposed extreme dangers we face from man-made climate change.  In fact, a search...

July 3, 2019

New York's climate change solution: Harm regular people for no noticeable benefit

Last week, the New York City Council approved a resolution declaring a climate emergency that it hopes will mobilize efforts to forestall the devastation of purported global warming from greenhouse gas emissions.  While entirely symbolic an...

March 4, 2019

No Deal at All

When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey rolled out their Green New Deal (GND) in February, they put flesh on the bones of a policy that formerly was only a pie-in-the-sky proposal promoted by the Green Party. This Green Part...

January 18, 2019

What the Green New Deal will do to our family

My wife and I are proud of our daughter, who is a full-time stay-at-home mom taking care of our nearly two-year-old granddaughter.  She is able to devote herself 100% to the little darling because her husband Todd has a high-paying job as l...

May 8, 2018

How green is my planet?

The revelation this week that CO2 had just reached 410 ppm is just the most recent negative climate "tipping point" being reached.  This news was accompanied by the usual links to future apocalyptic warming events and predictions ...