Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Permit me to welcome you to a distinctly different universe, one inhabited by right-wing religious zealots who spout an endless stream of utterly weird and truly bizarre claims that are not factual. It is continuous and apparently never-ending. One thing is highly predictable – if they assert something, then there is a high probability that … Read more
A new study that has just been published in Nature reveals that something dramatic is happening in Greenland. The title of the study is “Nonlinear rise in Greenland runoff in response to post-industrial Arctic warming“. When you are talking about a measurement of meltwater from a body of ice that by itself contains enough water … Read more
After flattening out for a few years between 2014 and 2016 the overall rates of Global carbon emissions in 2018 have once again reverted back to their rapid upwards trend. Translation: if this does not change very soon, then we are well and truly F**ked. Here are the numbers. Where do these numbers come from? … Read more
Atlantis, Plato’s tale of the ancient lost city, is perhaps one of the most famous ancient myths. It is a saga that concerns an ancient civilisation that was swallowed by the sea and destroyed after a great earthquake and flood. Each generation sees somebody pop up claiming that it is all all true, and that … Read more
David Attenborough, who hopefully needs no introduction, has been speaking at day 1 of COP24, the UN Climate Change conference … “Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years.Climate Change. If we don’t take action the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much … Read more
Katharine Hayhoe is not only a professor and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, but she is also the lead author on volumes one and two of the fourth national climate assessment. This means that she will find herself being faced again and again with climate change denialism and so she … Read more