Climate Change

evangelicals — If you read what I post, (hat tip to all three of you), then you are perhaps aware that there are two topics that tend to dominate my daily scribbling, namely religious belief, and climate change. What is perhaps fascinating to me is the combination of both of these topics […]

How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God

This entry was posted in Activism Climate Change politics religion society and tagged Brendan O'Connor Climate Change denial Fossil Fuel money on April 7, 2018 by Dave

political censorship — Reveal, a nonprofit investigative journalism organisation founded in 1977, has an article by Elizabeth Shogren on the emerging anti-science policy within the US Dept of Interior. The US department of the Interior is currently run by Ryan Zinke, a Trump appointed climate denier. His record is one in which he has opposed objections […]

Human Role in Climate Change censored from science report

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news politics science and tagged censorship Climate Change Ryan Zinke US Dept on Interior on April 6, 2018 by Dave

sea level — A new paper has been published that examines one possible means for delaying the inevitable sea-level rise that is happening. We know that sea level is rising and that the rate of that sea level rise is accelerating. We also understand the reason why it is happening. The cause is human […]

Can we delay future sea level rise?

This entry was posted in Antarctic Climate Change news science and tagged Antarctica Climate Change sea level on March 13, 2018 by Dave

climate change — Eduardo Porter has an interesting article within the New York Times. The title, which is crafted to provoke readers, is “Fighting Climate Change? We’re Not Even Landing a Punch“, and yet it is something that is also rather important to appreciate. Starting with 1988, he basically lays out the specific actions […]

Fighting Climate Change? We’re Not Even Landing a Punch

This entry was posted in Climate Change media news science and tagged Climate Change on January 26, 2018 by Dave

Climate Disasters — Addressing Climate Change is often perceived to be a costly effort and so some might argue that doing nothing is a viable option. The problem with that thought is that the cost of doing nothing is going to increase year by year. NOAA has now completed calculating the numbers for […]

NOAA has 2017 stats: Climate disasters cost US $306 billion

This entry was posted in Climate Change news news science and tagged 2017 billion dollar events Climate Change Climate Disasters costs on January 10, 2018 by Dave

science denial — A new paper has been published within the Personality and Social Psychology bulletin entitled … Not All Skepticism Is Equal: Exploring the Ideological Antecedents of Science Acceptance and Rejection We report three studies—including an analysis of large-scale survey data—in which we systematically investigate the ideological antecedents of general faith in […]

Exploring Science Denial – New study published

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking People science Skepticism society and tagged Climate Change Critical Thinking GMO Pseudoscience science denial vaccines on December 16, 2017 by Dave