“Four seconds to midnight … that’s plenty of time!” Anonymous I assume there are other aspiring blog writers who experience the sensation of gawping like a fish at a screen as blank as one’s mind, gasping for ideas like the fish trying to breathe out of water. Maybe it just afflicts those of us of…

“The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them” – Michael O’Leary Wastefulness, it seems, is endemic to life on Earth.  Of the sun’s incoming energy, about half reaches the Earth’s surface, with the other half reflected or absorbed by particles in the atmosphere.  Of the solar energy captured by plants, no more…