Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
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
Traditionally belief is culturally associated with compassion, empathy, and a willingness to help. Many who do believe are inspired to be like that. However, those are values that the right-wing evangelicals have happily discarded and tossed under the bus. This is part of the price they pay in order to retain their allegiance to the … Read more
As part of the buildup to the start of the UNFCC conference in Katowice, Poland tomorrow (2nd Dec 2018), various interested parties have been publishing statements and reports that feed the very best and latest evidence-based observational data into the process of understanding the #climate. As part of that pattern, the World Meteorological Organisation has issued … Read more
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
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
