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Climate Scientists Contemplate Moves To Canada and Greenland
Buy land in Canada now? This is crazy. Wow. Climate scientists discuss their angst and frustration with Esquire over being ignored about global warming. They’re obviously seeing themselves as today’s Noahs, sounding the alarm–and like Noah, they’re not being heard. … Continue reading
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How Global Warming Denialists Are Likely to “Reason” about Berkeley Physicist Richard Muller’s Findings
I suppose Berkeley physicist Richard Muller is a fool for putting together a team that included a Nobel Prize winning scientist, revisiting all the data on climate change to date, and coming to the same conclusion as the current scientific … Continue reading
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Sea Ice Going, Going …
Just 18 years. It’s hard not to look at these two images together (via National Geographic) and not be stunned: 2012:
Humans Cause Global Warming By Tipping The Balance
Is it true that humans make only a tiny contribution to the Earth’s carbon cycle each year? Yes. Does this mean that humans aren’t causing global warming? No. Science journalist Graham Wayne explains: Although our output of 29 gigatons of CO2 … Continue reading
Global Warming: Converging Lines of Evidence
The link below provides a nice example of converging lines of evidence from different scientific disciplines leading to the same conclusion: the planet is warming. Two weeks ago, NASA announced accelerated melting of ice in Antarctica, and this week it … Continue reading
George Will Attacks Scientists, Jonathan Chait Retorts
George Will attacks: There is a sociology of science. Scientists are not saints in white laboratory smocks. They have got interests like everybody else. If you want a tenure-track position in academia, don’t question the reigning orthodoxy on climate change. … Continue reading
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Peter Ward Can’t Sleep at Night
The short reason: __________ The longer explanation (at YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRUggIb-NI __________ In Ward’s view, the two most urgent problems surrounding human caused climate change are the following: Mass extinction. When the poles heat up (as has happened in other periods … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, environment, global warming, life, oceans, peter ward, science, sea level
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Sea Level Rise and Global Warming
Over the next century the most immediate and significant disruption to human life from global warming will be sea level rise, and this National Geographic documentary on the subject is exceptional. Among its many excellencies are poignant observations from one … Continue reading
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Rush Limbaugh: “Bill Nye is not a scientist!”
Rush Limbaugh, in the last hour of his show today, unhappy about Bill Nye’s views on global warming, said the following: “Bill Nye is not a scientist!” Is this true? If Nye’s Wikipedia page is to be believed, it is … Continue reading
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Some Push Back Against Global Warming Denialists
The three charts below, from Discovery News, debunk the recent meme being circulated by right-wing entertainment outlets that global warming has stalled. The first chart shows how the scientific findings get cherry picked by the likes of Drudge, Limbaugh, and Fox … Continue reading
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Why Global Warming is True: Converging Lines of Evidence
The below video provides a wonderful example of how you can increase the confidence of your conclusions through converging lines of evidence. The chart at the end of the clip is quite simply stunning. __________ We know the earth is … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, critical thinking, earth, global warming, Holocaust denial, reason, science, young earth creationism
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Bill Nye on Climate Change
Clear as a bell. Deserves to go viral.
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Conservative Changes Mind on Global Warming
A new documentary on global warming, Chasing Ice, is attracting a lot of positive critical buzz and appears to pack quite a wallop. At least it did for this person: _________ This is going on my “films to see” list. … Continue reading
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Anti-Science and Conspiracy Culture: Is Postmodernism to Blame?
How much responsibility should postmodern academics assume for America’s pervasive anti-science and conspiracy culture? A helpful route into thinking about this question is Bruno Latour’s 2003 essay, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters … Continue reading
Yes, Global Warming Continues Apace
The three charts below, from Discovery News, debunk the recent meme being circulated by right-wing entertainment outlets that global warming has stalled. The first chart shows how the data gets cherry picked by Drudge et. al. so that recent peaks … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, critical thinking, evolution, global warming, reason, science
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While We’ve All Been Sleeping
This alarming little paragraph was recently posted at the New Yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert: We are now seeing changes occur in a matter of years that, in the normal geological scheme of things, should take thousands, even millions of times … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, climate change, cool, global warming, hot, nature, oil
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Carpe Diem: NASA Tracking Ocean Currents
Trippy. And not just trippy, but a reminder of the flux in which each of us tries to maintain a stable, prolonged, and individual identity. Good luck with that.
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Tagged climate, climate change, flow, global warming, NASA, oceanography, oceans, science, water
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Jon Huntsman Shocker: Plants And Animals Change Over Time And Carbon Dioxide Raises Atmospheric Temperatures!
This dude’s presidential aspirations, at least from within the Republican Party, are toast. . Actually, on a more serious note, I can’t help but wonder if Jon Huntsman is gunning for the Vice Presidency. As President Obama’s former ambassador … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, evolution, global warming, jon huntsman, mitt romney, Politics, rick perry, science, ticket balancing
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Prometheus Unbound 