On this blog/Facebook page, I try very hard to stick to scientific facts and avoid discussing politics. Nevertheless, I am frequently accused of being political, even when I am simply reporting a fact. For example, I often post facts about climate change, such as the fact that 2014, 2015, and 2016 all set new records for the warmest year (on average), and when I do that, I nearly always receive comments accusing me of “liberal propaganda” or “pushing a liberal agenda,” but that’s not how facts work. It is demonstrably true that all of those years were the warmest on record, and politics has absolutely nothing to do with it. In other words, facts are inherently not political. They are simply statements of reality. To be clear, facts can, of course, be used to make political arguments and to try to persuade people of a particular political position, but the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Aug 10, 2020 @ 10:03:08
Does this statement: “To be clear, facts can, of course, be used to make political arguments and to try to persuade people of a particular political position, but the…” apply to technological/social positions too?
Are Jacobson’s- “100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything(1)” thoughts a political argument, an engineering argument or something else?
1) Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson, Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program Stanford University, on Aug. 13th at 5:30 P.M., speaking on “100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.” Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsf-Gsqj8uHN3VK3Lw-H1T3KqTerQFdfry.
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