Has global warming stopped? I'm glad you asked...
Category: climate
It's is a dangerous and perhaps even disingenous question.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:27 AM • 5 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. Mostly regarding climate change, though.
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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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- Bjorn Lomborg launches campaign against logic
- The link between the climate denial and anti-vaccine crowds
- Climate control in Canada: And now the good news
- Another nail in the Superfreakonomics coffin
- Is 350 the right target for atmospheric CO2?
- Explaining plummeting belief in anthropogenic climate change
- Science is not a religion
- Limbaugh listeners need to do some soul-searching
- Superfreakonomics: How did they get climate change so wrong?
- Isn't that special?
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Inspiration
The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle
in the Dark,
by Carl Sagan
(A
review)
The Doubter's Companion:
by John Ralston Saul (Excerpts)
Skeptic Magazine: www.skeptic.com
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: www.csicop.org
A poem by Yehuda Amichai:
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Where We Are Right
The Meaning of the
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.
"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things
which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.
Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving, and
tiny blasts of tinny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may
he be ours, he may be us."
--Walt Kelly
December 24, 2007
December 21, 2007
Cross-border climate change concern gap
Category: climate
Matt Nisbet once again points out that nobody in America cares about climate change. With all due respect to the Pew survey gang, I doubt things are really that bad. Consider a recent poll of Canadians that puts the environment...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:17 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
RV reproduction
Category: humor
From the master of doom and gloom, James Howard Kunstler, comes this attempt to simultaneous amuse and depress:...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2007
Where the whales came from .. maybe
Category: evolution
It's pretty much exactly what's been missing in the search to fill in the gap between whatever entirely terrestrial whale ancestor and the first aquatic whales of 50 million years ago.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:03 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2007
A Canadian lesson for Science Debate '08: Integrity trumps science literacy
Category: politics
Sure, it would be nice if the next president of the United States could explain the difference between radiative forcings and feedbacks when it comes to dealing with greenhouse gas emissions...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:10 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 16, 2007
Adapt! The cry of the coward
Category: climate
To abandon any thought of mitigating climate change, to quit now while we can, at least in theory, head off the worst of what's to come, strikes me as a lazy and cowardly approach
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:47 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 14, 2007
But what do the laws of thermodynamics say?
Category: climate
Roger Pielke Jr. asks why almost every media outlet ignored a new paper in Nature that says "global warming may have a minimal effect on hurricanes" when comparably respectable papers arguing the opposite get oodles of attention. Good question. I'll...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 2:23 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 13, 2007
Facebook Atheism: An entirely wrong approach
Category: religiosity
You don't win friends and influence people by announcing that you're better than them.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 2:13 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 12, 2007
White House science adviser on the climate change challenge
Category: climate
Just how out of touch with science is Bush's science adviser? Ray Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climatologist, bring us a report on a speech by John Marburger at the current meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Unfortunately there are...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dueling temperature records
Category: climate
Get ready for the climate change pseudoskeptics to exploit to their own disingenuous ends the inevitable disagreement among climatologists over just where the latest 12 months falls in the list of warmest years on record. See? they'll argue, the science...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:24 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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