Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
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
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
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
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