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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.
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.
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:
The
Place
Where We Are Right
The Meaning of the
Island of Doubt
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
June 29, 2009
Category: climate
If we do manage to get a climate bill through Congress, it will be despite, not because of, the convictions of millions of Americans.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:44 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 25, 2009
Category: climate
What Congress would do after passing/not passing ACESA is anybody's guess. Makes modeling the planet's ecosystem easy by comparison.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:20 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
when the country's chief climatologist decides to put his reputation on the line by getting arrested to protest the slow pace of progress on the very subject the government pays him to study, surely that warrants our attention.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2009
Category: climate
Have we slid so far down the hole of celebrity worship that a second-string Hollywood personality (who hasn't made a memorable appearance on the silver screen since 1982's Blade Runner), get top billing over the country's most senior and respected scientist in his field?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:17 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 23, 2009
Category: climate
"Just because the world desperately needs a solution that satisfies both the scientific and the political constraints doesn't mean one necessarily exists."
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:03 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2009
Category: climate
James Lovelock hates wind turbines, likes nuclear power and generally makes it difficult for anyone who wants to pigeonhole him in the pantheon of environmental heroes. But there's little point in denying that few earth scientists have a better grasp...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 2:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
Deutsche Bank recently turned on 41,000 LED lights that keep track of the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. Nice idea, but I respectfully suggest a much better one....
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2009
Category: humor
And now for something completely different. Nothing to do with climate change, pseudoscience, religiosity or even Twitter. I post it here because I am a freelancer. And everyone who has ever freelanced, or used a freelancer, or thought about freelancing,...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 2:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 17, 2009
The laws of thermodynamics and chemistry tell us we should be seeing a rise in temperatures, we do see such a rise, and analysis of the composition of the atmosphere tells us what's responsible.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:32 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 15, 2009
Category: climate
We need sincere straight talk. Or do we?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:35 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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