Danish Plan

Climategate: Forget Denmark, something is rotten with CRU science

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Those who have been reading this column for awhile know that my views on global warming are a bit askew of the traditional fault lines on the subject...

A modest proposal for settling accounts with America’s latter-day Red Guards

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It was one of those war stories that if it wasn’t true, it should have been. I first heard it in the 1960s during a...

Is the world’s most interesting man running for president?

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Forget about the guy who used to sell Dos Equis. The world’s most interesting man is Andrew Yang. OK, maybe he’s the world’s second most interesting...

What one Republican would do about climate change

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Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, recently told Public Radio International that if the Republicans don’t like President Obama’s approach to curbing ...

Predicting the future: The internet and two old poems

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“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”  —Yogi Berra Back in 1984 or 1985, the late Jerry Pournelle, sci-fi writer, futurist, computer geek...

What would Sarah do?

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The toxic hell of fracking (children welcome)

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The anti-fracking activists who demonstrated at an oil rig on Boulder County open space last Saturday obviously don’t think fracking is very dangerous. How else do you explain the fact that they brought their kids to the demonstration...

An open letter to Michaela Mujica-Steiner

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I read with interest your piece in the Dec. 13 Boulder Weekly (Re: “Déjà vu at U.N. climate talks”) about your visit to the United...

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre

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A few days after Nikolas Cruz allegedly perpetrated Valentine’s Day Massacre version 2.0 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, it emerged...

Democracy dies in darkness — among other places

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Early last year the Washington Post, after vetting about 500 candidate slogans, adopted as its motto the phrase “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” An interesting choice,...

The eagle has landed — with extreme prejudice

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Wind turbines have killed at least 67 eagles in the last five years, and probably a lot more, according to a report issued last September by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists...

Ben Carson and the ink-stained knaves

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Ben Carson spent last week — to paraphrase Kipling — hearing his words twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools...