Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
There has been much media reporting regarding the issuing of the Fourth National Climate Assessment in the US, and also inevitably some utterly stupid responses to it from the usual suspects. For example Rick Santorum popped up on CNN to praise the Trump administration’s attempt to try and bury the report with this claim: “A lot … Read more
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published their latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin on 22nd Nov. Warning: It is not good news. You can find it on this page here. Let’s go though some of the highlights within it. Greenhouse Gases are all still Increasing The following chart is the summary of it all. It shows that the … Read more
Well yes, my title is a tad clickbaitish, so let’s first do a quick reveal. The vast city consists of termite mounds. If that sounds yawn inducing, hit pause and consider this … This is not a story about a lot of termite mounds spread over a few miles. Instead it is a story about … Read more
Researchers at the University of Hawaii have published a new study within Nature that examines the changes we face due to the ongoing uptick in the levels of Greenhouse gas. It specifically examines how we will be impacted by the simultaneous occurrence of multiple climate hazards strengthened by increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This research reveals that … Read more
On the 31st October a paper was published in Nature that laid out the evidence for Earth’s oceans soaking up about 60% more heat that had been previously estimated. On 2nd Nov I wrote a posting that highlighted it. Since then there has been an update on all of this. Mathematician Nic Lewis, who is … Read more
You might perhaps have never heard about the John Maddox Prize, and so you could naturally be inclined to think … “The What?”. This however is special. First, let’s very briefly do a bit of background on it. Sense about science is the British charity that funds and promotes the John Maddox Prize in conjunction with the … Read more