We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and is slowly rotating;
the stars in its spiral arms orbit around its center about once every several hundred million years.
Our sun is just an ordinary, average-sized, yellow star, near the inner edge of one of the spiral arms.
We have come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy, when we thought that the earth was the center of the universe !
Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time. From the Big Bang to Black Holes.
"...during the three weeks period before the election
when three of the four major conservative commentators - Charles Krauthhammer,
Jonah Goldberg and George Will - raised their voices in unison
objecting to the scientific findings concerning global warming. They, of course, are all
on the payroll of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News, and perhaps it was simply a coincidence
that it came shortly after a similar push by the Murdoch papers in England."
Tom Anderson, Hartford Courant 1/2/2015
Your periodic reminder that Trump's Project 2025 plan includes privatizing the national weather service which means one of his wealthy friends would control our weather info. 1/https://t.co/HQfbjcPKx3
The Weather Channel used to have an environmental
reporting team, including a weekly show called 'Forecast Earth'
that focused on climate change -
but they were all laid off as one of NBC's first cost-cutting moves
after purchasing the channel. (Washington
Post, 11/21/08)
"Many major media outlets are controlled by companies
that have a vested interest in keeping environmental disasters under
wraps: NBC is owned by General Electric, the world's biggest polluter,
with a world record 86 Superfund sites. Until three years ago, CBS was
owned by Westinghouse, which has 39 Superfund sites.
Westinghouse is also the world's largest owner of nuclear power plants
and the third-largest manufacturer of nuclear weapons." Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr.: Crimes Against Nature pg 179
(2004)