Are there Fact Checking standards for fact checkers?

fact checking

Trump might slag off the media as the “enemy of the people”, but that never deters him from happily using them as a soapbox for his creative interviews that are commonly devoid of facts. After his recent Washington Post interview, they found it necessary to publish some fact-checking a couple of days ago … “We’re … Read more

What is in the latest UN Emissions Gap Report 2018? – #emissionsGap

emissions

Next Sunday on 2nd December 2018 the next UN Climate Change conference starts. It runs from 2-14 Dec in Katowice, Poland. This is the international body that pulled together what is commonly referred to as the Paris Agreement, and so this conference is all part of that roadmap. As input for this conference, the UN 2018 … Read more

What do Evangelicals actually believe?

evangelicals

The basis for this posting is the result of a poll conducted by a Christian group named “Ligonier Ministries“, and no, I’ve never heard of them either. Their poll was conducted in 2018 and the details were published about one month ago … Ligonier Ministries teamed up with LifeWay Research, the research arm of the … Read more

What does the US Fourth National Climate Assessment tell us?

Climate Assessment

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

Weird Religious News – Martyrs for the cause of Stupidity

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Scan for weird religious news that popped up within the news cycle last week, and the folks that naturally bubble to the surface are specifically the right-wing religious Trump supporters. What you have is a complete and utter rejection of facts, evidence, and reality itself. Instead “Alternative facts” are promoted as “truth”. In this case … Read more

WMO – Greenhouse gases still increasing

Greenhouse gas

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