Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
I first became aware of the latest bit of utter insanity that has been bubbling away inside the right-wing information bubble when a friend on Facebook posted this … Guys, my mom thinks Antifa is going to start a civil war on November 4th that will lead to power outages because her pastor told her … Read more
Dr. Marshall Shepherd, a former NASA scientist, has written an interesting article in Forbes in which he highlights three specific Climate specific news articles that broke this week. He notes … I bet there is a good chance that you did not hear about them … and for the average person out there he is … Read more
A paper published last week in Nature Geoscience entitled “Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C” has set a few heads spinning. The primary thrust of it is that the amount of CO2 that can be emitted is perhaps bigger than previously thought if we are to still stick the goal of … Read more
Last February Mail journalist David Rose penned one of his Climate change denial articles for the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail. I blogged about it at the time and explained exactly why it was nonsense. The claims presented within his article entitled “Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated … Read more
There is a BBC article (dated 4th Sept) that reports that in the UK … 53% of people described themselves as having “no religion”, in a survey of 2,942 adults by the National Centre for Social Research. Among those aged between 18 and 25, the proportion was higher at 71%. What is their source? The … Read more
The above has been circulating along with the claim of Antifa violence. It would perhaps make a good point except there is one rather important fact – it is fake. Snopes has the precise details along with clear decisive evidence … An image purportedly showing an anti-fascist (antifa) protestor hitting a police officer was circulated … Read more