Science – Clearpastures

Carbon Tax

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:December 5, 2021
Post Category:Science / Social

There is little question of the utility of a carbon tax to incentivize greenhouse gas emission reductions. But this raises three other questions of a more practical nature: Why hasn’t…

Who Pays?

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:November 8, 2021
Post Category:Science

A carbon tax is an essential part of the Climate Change solution. If done right, its cost doesn’t have to be passed on to consumers. It will fund a new…

Sustainable Energy

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:November 3, 2020
Post Category:Science

Two forces drive a need to transition off fossil fuels – climate change and depletable resources. Deniers and politicians (often the same thing) want to kick the can down the…

Carbon Sucking

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:July 18, 2020
Post Category:Science

Science is coming to the conclusion that just reducing carbon emissions will not be enough to avoid climate change. We will also need to scrub carbon dioxide from the atmosphere…

What’s Wrong?

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:May 27, 2020
Post Category:Science / Social

There are some basic things about Covid 19 that would be valuable to know and which could be settled with some fairly simple scientific experiments (compared to vaccine development). What’s…

The Cost of Preparedness

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:April 15, 2020
Post Category:Science / Social

The lack of US preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic has been shameful and unnerving. On the policy side, it started with Trump ignoring plans given to him during his transition…

10 National Issues (Parts 5 & 6)

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:April 10, 2020
Post Category:Politics / Science / Social

Here is the next installment. Environment and climate change. The US EPA employs 14,000 people and has a budget of $8.5 Billion (about 0.2% of federal expenditures). State environmental agencies…

Water

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:March 31, 2020
Post Category:Science

As we all know, without water there is no life – on earth or beyond. Annual precipitation on the US averages 2 quadrillion gallons (30 inches/year) and we currently use…

Product Safety

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:February 25, 2020
Post Category:Science

Go to your supermarket and read the back labels on the bottles in the cleaning product aisle. You will see a few percent of a tongue-twister word, which is the…

Radon

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:January 5, 2020
Post Category:Science

New Hampshire (my home state) is currently having an argument about what the safe level should be for indoor air radon concentrations. Radon is a fascinating environmental issue as I…