Richard Zurawski

I have a confession to make. I am nuts about science and how it works. I am telling you this because I just can’t seem to stop reading and thinking about all the information that science has given us. And for every book I read there seem to be at least a dozen that I [...]

It seems that no matter what we promise, we find ways to rationalize the breaking of those promises. We are nothing if not creative is the ways we look for loopholes. Take the promises of keeping space a non military place. Back in the good old days when there were only a couple of superpowers, [...]

Its oh so convenient and ubiquitous. Now its a plague. What was the whispered to be the future is now here to stay in the present. In addition to spewing reams of climate changing gases into the atmosphere our industrious and burgeoning petrochemical industry that has spawned an effluent that is everywhere. About six months [...]

Ever hear the quote from P.T. Barnum? “There’s a sucker born every minute” Well, it seems that we are awash in people who are trying to separate you from your hard earned money and nowhere is that effort stronger with more fraudulent claims that in the “green” movement. My latest run in with quack science [...]

We have been tricked by the sensationalists elements in the media into believing that science and science advancements is all about big money, huge instruments, mega machines and projects that cost billions of dollars. But science is done in a thousand different ways, by people who work their craft in the Maritimes and not at [...]

Every time you get up, walk, stop, sit down, move you not only use energy, but you waste energy. Now some bright, enterprising young engineer has created a device that allows you to waste less. Its a small device that is attached to your upper leg that makes use of the energy that you use [...]

It’s time to have another peek at the greatest source of energy on, I mean off the planet. And by that I mean solar power. The energy that drives 99.999% of all things on this planet comes from the sun. Geothermal and nuclear power make up the other .0001%. Plants seem to have the right [...]

Now here is something that really, pardon the weather pun, frosts my shorts. The expression is appropriate though. In its efforts to make sure the Federal Government climate agenda receives no resistance from any part of the government, the Ministry of the Environment has muzzled its weather scientists. They have to toe the government line [...]

Let’s all go out and turn the power off for a day to do something green for the Earth. Let’s go out and sing for peace. Let’s get Hollywood celebrities to donate their time to charities. Why on Earth are we attracted to the idea of doing something and yet avoid the real issues so [...]