Wind is nothing more than the movement of air molecules from one place to the next. The direction and speed of the wind represents the balance between three basic forces acting on it: the pressure gradient, the Coriolis force, and surface friction.
Biographical Information. Chip Berlet is an investigative reporter, independent scholar, photographer, videographer, and progressive activist. As a human rights activist he has spent over forty years studying prejudice, demonization, scapegoating, demagoguery, conspiracism, and authoritarianism.
Berlet is coâauthor, with Matthew N. Lyons, of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, (Guilford Press, 2000), which received a Gustavus Myers Center Award for outstanding scholarship on the subject of human rights and intolerance in North America.