Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
You might have perhaps heard the news that Obama has issued a ban on Arctic drilling for oil. For example we read in The Guardian … Barack Obama bans oil and gas drilling in most of Arctic and Atlantic oceans Barack Obama has permanently banned new oil and gas drilling in most US-owned waters in the … Read more
We know that Carbon Dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and we can also measure the constantly rising seasonal variations of it. Is that it, or can we go even further with a deeper understanding? The TL;DR; (Too Long; Didn’t Read) answer is …yes, we can model how it flows. Using data gathered via NASA’s Orbiting Carbon … Read more
An “interesting” assortment of quite unique individuals have been selected by Mr Trump to fill the various posts within his cabinet. OK yes, I’m abusing the word “interesting” within that last sentence. Alas, what I’m about to reveal is public knowledge and also quite frankly very disturbing. So who has been selected and what is … Read more
Last Friday a new paper on the melting of the largest Ice Shelf in Antarctica was published. Available in AAAS, it is entitled … Ocean heat drives rapid basal melt of the Totten Ice Shelf It is open access, so no paywall, you can view the entire paper without any hassle (yea). What is it … Read more
The Trump administration will need to come to terms with the fact that many will not be simply rolling over to accommodate scientific illiteracy. Gov. Brown of California has now made his stance abundantly clear. We have already observed the start of a witch hunt with a request for the names of specific individuals who have worked on … Read more
A rather regular part of office life is the fire drill, an evert that you really do hope never happens when it is tipping down outside. When standing in the car park on one such occasion, I commented that this was a complete waste of time. In response , a colleague told us the story of a time … Read more