I woke up this morning and the world was slightly different than it was the night before. Well, it probably always is a little different each day, but there are certain times when you notice this. I'm not talking about the bits of siding, roofing, and trees scattered about the landscape because...
Back in my days wandering around in Harvard Square, I used to look at the beautiful churches and think ....
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From USA Today:
An influential 2006 congressional report that raised questions about the validity of global warming research was partly based on material copied from textbooks, Wikipedia and the writings of one of the scientists criticized in the report, plagiarism experts say.
Review of the...
I was under the impression that "Reason" magazine was a libertarian neocon climate denialist rag. I could be wrong, but that's what I thought. I was also under the impression that JREF was pro-science and at this point had gotten beyond the whole "let's remain skeptical about global warming"...
I don't expect these dyed-in-the-wool cranks to change their minds, but it is appropriate that those of us who do have bits and pieces of the internet in our charge keep the dialog honest and progressive. The denialists are putting up offensive, inaccurate, one-liner billboards. We are burning...
...AGW skeptics' argument? An AGW proponent pointed out in an add-on to a recent question that Venus' atmospheric CO2 concentration is 96.5% and that Venus' surface temperature is over 870 degrees F.
That equates to 2,539 times the Earth's atmospheric CO2 concentration of 0.038%.
And it...
To the people who don't believe man-made global warming is real, you must either:
1) Feel that it is not real based on scientific principle, and feel that all governments and climate scientists who support the notion are just not as well-educated about the climate system as you are.
2)...