Weird Right-Wing Fundamentalist News
Here is this week’s selection of the flow of weird that emminates from that blend of fundamentalist religion with right-wing politics.
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Notes from Effective climate change communicators
Being an effective climate science communicatior truly matters. We need those who can inspire and motivate us to take meaningful actions.
Climate Denial – Why do people change their minds?
Why do some who adopted a previous hardline stance change their minds completely, what persuades them they were wrong?
Climate Change and the Rising Tide
The city of Miami is very vunerable to the rising sea. In the context of climate change, how do those that live there view it?
Physicist Wins $1.4 million prize for being religious
It has been announced that Physicist Marcelo Gleiser has been granted the Templeton Foundation’s $1.4 million prize for 2019. Sanity warning – this is not your normal prize, winning this is not a badge of honour, it more or less announces “here is somebody prepared to blend religion with science”. What is the Templeton Foundation? … Read more
Anti-Vaxers Harass Parents whose Children die
CNN reveals anti-vaxers have been harassing parents of children who died of vaccine preventable illnesses because it conflicts their beliefs.