Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
We are going to talk about Hurricanes and a new study that examines the trend regarding their intensity. With a warming climate the conclusion of the study, which we will get to, feels like an obvious one, but in the context of the prevailing taking points promoted by those opposed to science it brings a … Read more
Alternative medicine is tagged “alternative” because it an intervention that has been demonstrated to not actually do anything medical beyond the placebo effect. Examples abound and include things such as Homeopathy, Reiki, etc… Let’s briefly review those. Examples of Alternative Medicine Homeopathy, dreamed up in 1792. It involves giving you a diluted substance to supposedly … Read more
It has been 10 years since the supposed Climategate scandal. What happened, what is the story of Climategate really all about? Origins In November 2009, a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) was hacked and thousands of their internal emails were stolen and distributed. These were then dishonestly quote-mined by climate … Read more
A study that examines what happened during last interglacial points very strongly towards what will unfold for us over the next few centuries.
Within a climate context was last October just an average October and, to coin a phrase, there was nothing to write home about, or is it another data point in the ongoing climate change story? We now have some data we can get our teeth into. In the US We don’t get the full national … Read more
What exactly have 11,000 scientists signed, is it more doom and gloom or do they have a viable plan of action to address their concerns?