Jon Stewart explains the climate bill
Category: climate
Jon Stewart. Climate Change. Need I say more?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:37 AM • 6 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 and communications consultant 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,
by Carl Sagan
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review)
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--- 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
July 30, 2009
July 17, 2009
Gaps in climate knowledge! Oh no!
Category: climate
Just because we don't understand what happened 55 million years ago perfectly, that's no reason to get complacent
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:34 AM • 93 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2009
The oceans are in trouble, which means we all are
Category: climate
As someone with a marine biology degree, I've been asked to help spread the word about the threat to ocean ecosystems from falling pH levels -- what everyone who doesn't have a marine biology degree calls ocean acidification. It's a...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:30 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 15, 2009
Science v. Atheism: the Dalai Lama gambit
Category: religiosity
Imagine the reaction if Francis Collins were to say "If science proves some belief of Christianity wrong, then Christianity will have to change."
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:09 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 14, 2009
Instead of reading *that,* read *this*
Category: climate
By "that," I mean Sarah Palin's first attempt at recreating herself as a pundit. For some reason, the Washington Post continues to publish error-ridden op-eds. By "this," I mean former Fortune managing editor Eric Pooley's debunking of the climate-bill scare...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 2:41 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
July 10, 2009
Down the rabbit hole .. again
Category: religiosity
Poor Chris Mooney. He's found himself deep in the old "are science and religion compatible" debate. I usually try to stay out of this particular rabbit hole, but the Island of Doubt could use a traffic boost to make up...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 1:12 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 9, 2009
The signal to noise problem in the climate crisis (and I'm not talking about data analysis)
Category: climate
The trick is convincing the climatology pseudoskeptics that there will always be loose ends,
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:18 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 7, 2009
Unscientific America (isn't the only problem)
Category: Sci-culture
So sharp is their criticism of the scientific establishment that the book's subtitle is perhaps a little misleading.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:03 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 6, 2009
Roger Pielke Sr. wades into the deep end
Category: climate
I just don't understand how someone with his level of experience can assert that long-term trends are invalidated by short-term variation.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:10 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 2, 2009
What science is really all about
Category: climate
And now we turn to a voice of reason. Ken Caldera, discussing the nuts and bolt of science, and climatology in particular, as part of a group interview with Discover magazine, reminds us all just how silly it is to...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:55 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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