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marine heatwaves — Land based heatwaves rather obviously involve an increase in air temperature, but since most of the planet is covered by water then we also have something similar in the world’s oceans – marine heatwaves. The concept recently entered the public’s social consciousness when the following was tweeted … Another sea-surface […]

Global Warming increases Marine heatwaves

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science study and tagged marine heatwaves on August 18, 2018 by Dave

catholic abuse report — The Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has formally published a 1,400-page report into the sexual abuse of little boys and girls. It is such a common story from almost every corner of the planet touched by Catholicism that you might perhaps expect to be immune to shock, and yet the scale of […]

Catholic Sexual Abuse on an Industrial Scale

This entry was posted in catholic religion and tagged abuse catholic Pennsylvania report on August 17, 2018 by Dave

fake news — On 9th August Time magazine published a really great article titled “How Your Brain Tricks You Into Believing Fake News“. I can highly recommend reading. It dives below the surface into the heart of the problem and is not simply another article having a bit of a moan about it […]

Your Fake News problem is not just “them” it’s you.

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking fake news media psychology Skepticism and tagged education fake news on August 16, 2018 by Dave

predatory conferences — You are perhaps familiar with the concept of predatory science journals. This is where a supposedly peer-reviewed journal will publish scientific articles, but will in reality publish anything as long as you are willing to pay them a high fee. The range of these runs from those that are simply […]

Bruno and Bob signed up for a predatory conference

This entry was posted in science Skepticism society and tagged conference fraudulent predatory predatory conferences scam on August 15, 2018 by Dave

nones — Pew has just published further insights into the rise of the religiously unaffiliated in the US. Moving beyond the data observation that that there is a growing demographic of “nones” (not religious), then picked a randomly selected group of people who had previously identified as a none and asked them […]

Why are people who once believed rejecting religion?

This entry was posted in poll religion society and tagged nones pew poll why on August 14, 2018 by Dave

climate assessment hottest july — Each month the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) issues a climate assessment for the preceding month. July’s has now been issued. A highlight is that California had its hottest July and hottest month on record at 79.7°F, surpassing the previous record set in 1931. This is not a PR […]

July was hottest Month ever recorded in California

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science and tagged climate assessment July 2018 NCEI on August 13, 2018 by Dave