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Antarctic — A new study has been published in nature that reveals some very worrying data. Looking back to see what has actually happened in the past is a good way to work out what is coming as we warm the planet, and it is that data that reveals the degree of […]

New Study: Moderate warming will lead to huge increases in Sea level

This entry was posted in Antarctic Climate Change science study and tagged #antarctic sea level study Wilkes Subglacial Basin on September 22, 2018 by Dave

IgNobel — Since 1991 we have seen the announcement of the IgNobel awards every September. This parody of the far more serious Nobel Prize is where the science community pauses to laugh at itself by granting awards at a formal ceremony held at MIT. Prizes go to the weirdest bits of real […]

IgNobel 2018 – Funny and Fascinating – #IgNobel

This entry was posted in Humor People science and tagged IgNobel on September 21, 2018 by Dave

global climate action summit — From 12-14 September the Global Climate Action summit took place in San Francisco. This was a time for focus and a place for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action on what is the most important challenge our species has ever faced. Hosted by Gov Jerry Brown it has indeed lived up […]

Global Climate Action Summit – News Items

This entry was posted in Climate Change news science and tagged Global Climate Action Summit on September 20, 2018 by Dave

myers-briggs — Let’s start with the basics by asking what Myers-Briggs claims to be. The idea is that you experience the world using four principal psychological functions – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking – and that one of these four functions is dominant. To work out where you stand you answer a series […]

Is Myers–Briggs scientific?

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking Skepticism and tagged myers-briggs on September 19, 2018 by Dave

bbc — In the not too recent past the BBC has managed to make a complete hash of their climate change reporting. Last August 2017 Al Gore was in the UK promoting the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”. The BBC quite rightly interviewed him on the BBC’s Radio 4 flagship program “Today”, a slot […]

BBC reporting on Climate Change

This entry was posted in Climate Change media news science and tagged BBC bias climate on September 18, 2018 by Dave

weird — When faced with many of the items of weird religious news, the most immediate and obvious is to go for the idea that this is stupidity incarnate. When it comes to Trump himself most of those who engage directly with him more or less confirm that he is indeed quite […]

Weird Religious News from the past week

This entry was posted in religion weird and tagged weird weird religious news on September 17, 2018 by Dave