Author Archives: pendantry

About pendantry

Phlyarologist (part-time) and pendant. Campaigner for action against anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and injustice in all its forms. Humanist, atheist, notoftenpist. Wannabe poet, writer and astronaut.

The trouble with plastic waste

Posted on July 22, 2018

Originally posted on daryanenergyblog:
Figure 1: The great Pacific Garbage patch [Phys.org, 2018] With large garbage patches of plastic growing in the oceans, the ecological impact of our oil addiction is now a major crisis. And it’s also starting to…

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How to ensure that your blog lives forever

Posted on July 18, 2018

I made a mistake a few weeks ago. I need to back up a bit and explain something. I hate advertising. I think it’s the devil’s own backyard. Don’t get me wrong: There’s nothing wrong with hawking one’s wares; if … Continue reading →

Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, Ludditis, Phlyarology, Strategy | Tagged , , | 43 Comments

Human Population Through Time

Posted on July 11, 2018

It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion — and only 200 years to reach 7 billion.

Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Communication, Core thought, Education, Environment, History, Phlyarology | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Unwinding the Human Predicament

Posted on July 4, 2018

From here, reproduced with permission from the author Jack Alpert of the Stanford Knowledge Integration Laboratory, with a hat tip to Damn the Matrix for pointing me in this direction: Note: this is an unfinished work, comments welcome alpert (at) … Continue reading →

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Bacteria in Bottles – an example of Exponential Growth

Posted on June 27, 2018

Professor Albert Bartlett famously said: The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. A short while ago I published a wibblette that tried to explain the exponential function. Dr Bob Rich added a … Continue reading →

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“If you Ignore the recent Warming, There’s Been No warming”: Deniers Go Full Arm-Wave on Hansen’s 1988 Predictions

Posted on June 26, 2018

Originally posted on Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
There’s been a flurry of climate denial activity coinciding with the 30 anniversary of James Hansen’s uncannily accurate testimony to congress on climate change, June 23, 1988.  If you have not…

Posted in Climate, Education, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, News and politics, Reblogs | Tagged , | 7 Comments

Join the Amazon Boycott!

Posted on June 20, 2018

Pages Unbound asked the question recently ‘How can Barnes & Noble save themselves?‘ and offers a variety of solutions to the problem. Of course the issue isn’t one faced just by Barnes & Noble, it applies to all vendors of … Continue reading →

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Bite size climate science: the persuaders

Posted on June 13, 2018

Climate science isn’t rocket science, but it is still complex, and complicated further by the misinformation spread by the Merchants of Doubt and their groupies, as well as those who have been persuaded by their underhand tactics over the years. … Continue reading →

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Turbo-boost your site by optimising images

Posted on June 6, 2018

In a previous life, I used to design business websites. One of the things I made very sure of was that the ‘weight’ (size, in bytes) of each page was as low as possible, because heavier pages take longer to … Continue reading →

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Please sign this petition!

Posted on June 2, 2018

Originally posted on Learning from Dogs:
S. Korea is the only country in the world with large-scale, commercial dog meat farms. Frankly, I wasn’t planning to publish a post today. But then in came an email from John Zande, he…

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