Author: Steven D

Why So Cold? It’s the Jet Stream

Yes, we are having record cold snaps here in the East and Southeast. Global warming must be bunk then, right? Not so fast. Out West, its nice and toasty with unusually warm temperatures. Take a look at this map from the National...

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Faceless Monsters

The irony of my coming across this opinion piece by Stephen Marche, The Epidemic of Facelessness in the New York Times Sunday Review, so soon after I stopped being anonymous here, is not lost on me. In it, Marche decries the...

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Hi There. Let Me Introduce Myself.

Yes, that’s a recent photograph, taken this year, of yours truly. Today is the day I come out of the shadows of internet anonymity (what little is left of them). I am Steven D. Searls. I live in western New York. And yes,...

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Megadrought is Coming to America

Don’t shoot the messenger, folks. A recent research article published in the online journal Science Advances says that by 2050 major portions of the Southwestern and Great Plains states will suffer from droughts much, much...

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Scott Walker Lies, Again, re: Wisc. Teachers

And this man wants to be President? Seriously? Now he’s deliberately using a false claim about a young teacher who was laid off after he became governor in order to bash Wisconsin’s teachers and its public education...

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