So it begins...
Category: climate
Geoengineering is a win-win scenario if there ever was one. If you're a corporate CEO, that is.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:12 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Island of Doubt
An irregular exploration of the struggle between the power of rational discourse and the scientific method on one hand, and the forces of superstition and dogma on the other.
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James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
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The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle
in the Dark,
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A poem by Yehuda Amichai:
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Island of Doubt
Author's site: cyamid.net
--- H. L. Mencken
By doubting we come to inquiry; and through inquiry we perceive truth.
--- Peter Abelard
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
-- Richard Dawkins
As for evolution, it happened. Deal with it.
-- Michael Shermer.
November 30, 2007
November 28, 2007
Taking on Big Coal: Hansen's holy war
Category: climate
It all makes complete sense. From a Vulcan's point of view.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2007
Worse than terrifying?
Category: climate
Hold on a sec ...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:43 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2007
They'll appoint anyone to the House of Lords...
Category: climate
The NZ Business Roundtable would probably find a lecture from his daughter more informative, as Nigella "Domestic Goddess" Lawson at least has experience with the physical effects of real temperatures.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:10 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2007
Thursday must read: The Nature of Climate Politics
Category: climate
Nature's editors have written an excellent summary of the state of climate politics in anticipation of the Bali negotiations on a post-Kyoto regime. Despite recapping all the daunting challenges, including the technological hurdles facing those interested in carbon capture and...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 12, 2007
The ultimate climate change remedy
Category: climate
If praying for rain actually worked, why not use it for all our weather and climate woes?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 1:37 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hosed again by that damn metric system!
Category: climate
Anyone who remembers Bob and Doug MacKenzie's attempts on Second City TV to convert two pounds of back bacon into 32 kilos can smile knowingly.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 9, 2007
Has Science found God? Is that a trick question?
Category: religiosity
How many books does Richard Dawkins have to write before people understand that evolution works incrementally?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:43 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2007
Vote for best Science Blog: Bad Astronomy
Category: misc
Vote now, before the polls close today at 10 pm ET, in the Best Science Blog competition. It's neck and neck between Bad Astronomy, which is a pretty cool read, and Climate Audit, which is a place where people who...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 2:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Not-So-Great Global Warming Denial Paper Hoax of 2007
Category: climate
By now you may of heard of a fictional paper in a fictional peer-reviewed journal that claims to prove that bacteria, not humans, are to blame for climate change. Here's a link to "Carbon dioxide production by benthic bacteria: the...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 11:53 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
80 percent by 2050
Category: climate
There are lots of reasons to treat such a goal as wildly unrealistic.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 2, 2007
Unrest in the forest, trouble with the trees
Category: climate
They're still needed in the Amazon, of course, but not so much in Ontario.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 1, 2007
Women presidents: the real story
Category: humor
Thanks for reading, but get a life.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:44 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
