Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
When it comes to the topic of Climate Change the IPCC provides quite literally heaps of scientific information. In fact there is so much of it that many a forest positively quivers at the idea of it all being converted from PDF into FDT (Flat Dead Tree). AR5 is available, and AR6 is due in … Read more
Yes, the title is a play on words, because the actual story here is that Climate Scientist Kate Marvel has launched Scientific American’s new Climate Science column … I suppose I should begin by introducing myself. My name is Kate Marvel, and I’m a climate scientist at Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for … Read more
If you are familiar with the topic of Climate Change, then the name Fred Singer will also perhaps be familiar. He is not a Climate Science hero, but instead is one of the well-known deniers-for-hire, who if paid enough, will say whatever you would like him to say or write. What has happened? 93 year old Fred … Read more
Looking back over deep time, we know that periods of glaciation come and go in regular pulses and that there have been variations in climate. It has been clear for some time that there exists a natural variation that is driving this. What is going on, why is it like this? Milankovitch Cycles The Serbian … Read more
Thanks to Gallop we need not guess about the quantity of ignorance and anti-science that prevails within the US Conservative tribe, because they have provided a very precise measurement. What the latest Gallop poll reveals is that during the past year not much has changed. Global Warming Concern Steady Despite Some Partisan Shifts Partisan Divisions … Read more
The New York Times has a great article regarding the perils of simply ignoring what the evidence-based science community is telling you. The opening example they have concerns the now infamous 1952 killer fog that happened in London. The Great Smog of London In December of 1952 there was a severe air-pollution event. At the … Read more