Messy eaters

Steve Schwartzman

Sep 11

Do squirrels eat the large chartreuse fruits of bois d'arc trees (Maclura pomifera)? You bet they do, and they're messy eaters. I'd occasionally seen the torn-up remains of these fruits strewn about, but not until September 1st in northeast Austin did I finally catch one of the culprits in flagrante delicto.

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Hooray for physicists!

In 2022, John F. Clauser, an American, jointly won a Nobel Prize in physics with two other scientists, Alain Aspect of France, and Anton Zeilinger of Austria, for their work on quantum information science.

Like physicist Steven E. Koonin, Clauser has examined climate evidence and concluded that, despite all the hysteria and monomania in many quarters, humanity is not in a climate crisis. You can read about that in a September 9th Epoch Times article that includes a 10-minute video of an interview with Dr. Clauser.

And as another recent article reported:

John F. Clauser, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics, has decided to sign the World Climate Declaration of Clintel with its central message "there is no climate emergency". Clauser is the second Nobel Laureate to sign the declaration; Dr. Ivar Giaever was the first. The number of scientists and experts signing the World Climate Declaration is growing rapidly and now approaching 1600 people.

Clauser has publicly distanced himself from climate alarmism and this year he also joined the Board of Directors of the CO₂ Coalition. In the announcement by the CO₂ Coalition, Clauser was quoted in the following way:

"The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world's economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world's large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science.

Tangentially and not at all surprisingly, given the censorious bent of the people now in charge of so many of our institutions, on July 20th the International Monetary fund "postponed" a talk Dr. Clauser was scheduled to give five days later. You can read more about that in a September 1st article in the Daily Signal.