Disarming Climate Change Denial Tropes (Featuring Peter Hadfield aka Potholer54)

Human-caused climate change has been studied for many decades, and the common sense alternative explanations have already been studied and don’t explain the warming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHzO2t1-y9M

Americans are eating up the meat industry’s health claims

“Meat is indeed packed with protein, but it comes with some well-established health drawbacks.

“Saturated fat we’ve known about for decades,” said Dr. Sarah C. Hull, a cardiologist at Yale Medicine. It’s common in red meat and contributes to increasing LDL cholesterol levels, hardening the blood vessels and, in turn, raising the risk of heart attack or stroke.

Moreover, “all mammalian meat tends to be very inflammatory,” said Hull, who studies the diet-related risks of heart disease and cancer. “More recently we’ve come to understand that the many pro-inflammatory compounds found in red meat” can have other downsides, she said, including “deleterious interactions with the gut microbiome.” Studies have also linked the risks of certain cancers and Type 2 diabetes to heme iron, a form of the mineral that’s found only in animal tissue and is more easily absorbed than the iron in plants.”

https://health.yahoo.com/wellness/nutrition/healthy-eating/articles/americans-eating-meat-industrys-health-093040469.html

How the Indo-Europeans conquered the world

Indo-European genes and language stretch from Western Europe to Sri Lanka. They were an early horse-people, that used their nomadic technologies like horse-riding, wagons, and chariots to dominate far in different directions. Genetically, their male lines spread far by dominate men having children with many women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtJ3iVROA60

Today’s Mission to the Moon

The goal of today’s moon mission is to send astronauts around the moon and have them return alive. It’s a test of life support systems. The long-term plan is to build a moon base where we can mine moon materials, advance science, and test things for Mars missions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdYF4NpO3h0

Why I fear for the future of mankind

Limiting climate change is about facing some pain now to prevent greater pains later.

One reason people are so against limiting climate change is because some proponents of limiting climate change underplayed the serious costliness of dealing with climate change, so people felt like they were being lied to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBHSmwxgLfQ

Trump Is Dismantling America’s Future (w/ Atul Gawande) | Mona Charen Show

Early on when Covid was spreading in Asia, it was clear that hospitals that wore masks had lower spread of Covid than those that did not.

Although older people were much more likely to die from Covid, lots of middle-aged people died too.

Operation Warp Speed saved millions of lives.

USAID saved millions of lives a year. Donald Trump and Elon Musk destroyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8p0c_TOI74

Do Cellphones Cause Cancer? RFK Jr.’s HHS Is Suppressing FDA Data Confirming Cellphone Safety.

“Do Cellphones Cause Cancer? RFK Jr.’s HHS Is Suppressing FDA Data Confirming Cellphone Safety.”

https://reason.com/2026/01/16/do-cellphones-cause-cancer-rfk-jr-s-hhs-is-suppressing-fda-data-confirming-cellphone-safety/

“You Can’t Unhear This” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Dismantles Religion in 25 Minutes

When you see a rainbow you are seeing light split through water. No one sees the same rainbow as you because they are seeing a different split of light split through different water. You can’t see a rainbow from the side because it only splits toward you. You can’t get to the bottom of the rainbow, because you are always seeing it straight on. That’s why it is a good place to hide the gold.

If you want to believe God explains the things science can’t, that is your right to believe what you want. But you shouldn’t be designing a school’s science curriculum, because that idea undermines what science is. That is an ideology of ignorance, while science is a process of discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_dBmg-e4PU

NIH looks to turn primate research center into a sanctuary

“The move is the latest in a series of initiatives by the Trump administration to try to reduce animal testing. Last year, NIH announced it would devote $87 million to a project to develop a standardized alternative to animal testing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to shutter its primate labs, and the Food and Drug Administration published a roadmap for reducing animal testing.

The push to end animal research testing is backed by animal-rights activists close to the administration, like far-right political activist Laura Loomer and President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.

But some researchers worry that moving away from animal testing too quickly could mean stalled progress on treatments that could cure disease and save lives.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/04/nih-is-looking-to-turn-a-primate-research-center-into-a-sanctuary-00765449?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHtmpUB8EJPlkMCciUTndgn-hTTjDJMChO8dDk6kVY3iL0ZlrLoZWDG10Qa_r_aem__R3f1gQTzMH2w9MX5Edsng