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atheist vote — A recurring polling question is to ask people about the type of candidate that they would vote for. For example, a 2016 Gallup poll discovered that the following types of candidates would be fine with the vast majority… Catholic Candidate? – 93% would vote yes A women Candidate? – 92% […]

Poll: Would an Atheist candidate be elected today?

This entry was posted in atheism politics poll society and tagged Atheist vote on December 14, 2018 by Dave

arctic — Starting in 2006 an annual Arctic report card has been published by NOAA. The 2018 Report card is now available, and it is not exactly good news. The more appropriate word is perhaps “dire”. The 2018 Report Card Here is a brief summary of it all … Highlights Surface air […]

Arctic Report Card: It’s worse than you think

This entry was posted in Arctic Climate Change environment news science and tagged 2018 Arctic NOAA report card on December 13, 2018 by Dave

protest — Almost every nation on the planet has delegates at the Climate Change conference that is currently taking place in Katowice, Poland. They are all there in an attempt to tackle the biggest crises that our species has ever faced – climate change. One group, acting out of utter ignorance and stupidity, […]

Disruption at Climate Conference in Poland

This entry was posted in Climate Change news People society and tagged Poland protest UNFCCC on December 12, 2018 by Dave

extinction — A common rebuttal to the current concern regarding the observed climate changes that are upon us is “Oh but the climate is always changing, this is nothing new, it has been worse in the past“. There is nothing “natural” about what is currently being measured and observed, we know with […]

Climate Change and Extinction

This entry was posted in Climate Change science study and tagged climate Extinction permian on December 11, 2018 by Dave

weird cults — Permit me to welcome you to a distinctly different universe, one inhabited by right-wing religious zealots who spout an endless stream of utterly weird and truly bizarre claims that are not factual. It is continuous and apparently never-ending. One thing is highly predictable – if they assert something, then there […]

Weird Religious News – “Down is up, up is down”

This entry was posted in religion weird and tagged religion weird on December 9, 2018 by Dave

greenland — A new study that has just been published in Nature reveals that something dramatic is happening in Greenland. The title of the study is “Nonlinear rise in Greenland runoff in response to post-industrial Arctic warming“. When you are talking about a measurement of meltwater from a body of ice that […]

Melting of Greenland ice is ‘off the charts,’ study shows

This entry was posted in Climate Change news science study and tagged greenland Melt nonlinear study on December 8, 2018 by Dave