Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
In yesterday’s posting about the new WGO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin that highlights where we stand with measurements of the Climate Change inducing greenhouse gas emissions, the big highlight is that the rate at which CO2 is increasing has accelerated. This insight quite naturally feeds into the topic for today – the latest 2017 UN Emissions Gap … Read more
In a world where we clearly need to be reducing our CO2 emissions, the observation that CO2 levels are rising at an accelerated rate is not exactly good news, but unfortunately that is exactly what the latest WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin tells us. On 30th October, the World Meteorological Organisation issued a press release “Greenhouse … Read more
There is a new study that highlights what needs to happen if we are going to avoid a dramatic rise in sea level by 2100. The worst case scenario that we are now looking at is a rise of about four feet. The Study It is entitled “Linking sea level rise and socioeconomic indicators under … Read more
Well hey, its Halloween, so let’s go for a Satanic Temple themed posting. In reality, this is a posting about religiously inspired discrimination. You might perhaps be tempted to think that an article dated 31st Oct about a Satan themed cake is simply a Halloween spoof. It is perhaps true that my timing is a … Read more
Canadian Braden Matejka narrowly escaped death in the Las Vegas shooting, and so his story along with many others became international news. Here he is briefly telling his story on CBC … He had a very very lucky escape and narrowly missed death by millimetres. Essentially the bullet grazed his skull. If he had been standing … Read more
For my top three items of weird religious news during the past seven days the observation is, “Hey, you are always highlighting the same people each week“. Well OK, let’s do things a bit differently. For my personal selection this week, I will restrict myself to not mentioning the old favourites who pop up time … Read more