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I’m not going to be able to vote for anyone, ever, am I?
Posted by PZ Myers on June 14, 2011 Once again, politicians are going on little, petty crusades to help the government economize, and as usual, they go for cheap shots that do nothing, other than to reveal their screwed up priorities. Here’s Joe Biden, letting us know where the real problems lie. Did you know that the government spends millions to maintain buildings…
Everything you need to know about “ClimateGate”
Posted by PZ Myers on April 30, 2011 This video begins with a clip from Glenn Beck which nearly had me running away screaming, but stick with it — it thoroughly explains the false scandal.
Will radiation hormesis protect us from exploding nuclear reactors?
Posted by PZ Myers on March 18, 2011 That reputable scientist, Ann Coulter, recently wrote a genuinely irresponsible and dishonest column on radiation hormesis. She claims we shouldn’t worry about the damaged Japanese reactors because they’ll make the locals healthier! With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from…
Markey is a hero, Rethuglicans are morons
Posted by PZ Myers on March 12, 2011 Lately, I’ve completely given up on giving any credit to the Rethuglican party at all — where once I could have grudgingly admitted that perhaps some conservative policies were sensible, the current party is no longer conservative, but simply insane. As an example, I give you The Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, a Republican-sponsored,…
Goodbye, Kiribati
Posted by PZ Myers on February 16, 2011 It’s a triumph of hope over reason, and that means the residents of the Kiribati Islands, an archipelago of tiny islands with an average altitude of 6.5 feet, are doomed. They’ve got faith, you know, but one thing they haven’t got is any reason. NPR reports on their dire situation as the waters slowly rise…
It really has been a consistent assessment for a long time
Posted by PZ Myers on January 9, 2011 When climate change denialists give you that silly song-and-dance about scientists flip-flopping on predictions about warming, show them this video from 1989. Not only is it Isaac Asimov (yay!), but he talks about making this same argument, that we ought to worry about the greenhouse effect, for 20 years. (via Climate Progress)
The new phrenology
Posted by PZ Myers on January 4, 2011 Morphological variation is important, it’s interesting…and it’s also common. It’s one of my major scientific interests — I’m actually beginning a new research project this spring with a student and I doing some pilot experiments to evaluate variation in wild populations here in western Minnesota, so I’m even putting my research time where my mouth…
Explaining global climate change with a comic
Posted by PZ Myers on December 14, 2010 This is really well done: Darryl Cunningham explains global warming with simple, clear illustrations and explanations. I want to steal it all, put it in a pdf, and print out a few hundred copies to hand out to the deniers.
Episode CXXXXI: What’s it worth to you?
Posted by PZ Myers on December 9, 2010 So you filled up another bucket in the endless thread…I really should get that leak fixed someday. Meanwhile, here’s a little something from the Institute on the Environment at the UM. (Current totals: 11,487 entries with 1,207,883 comments.)
Back to the debate with you!
Posted by PZ Myers on November 11, 2010 A few days ago, sent you off to vote on a debate on genetically-modified crops, a debate that has continued onwards. We didn’t quite pharyngulate this poll; it has gone back and forth, and now the anti-GMO forces have a pretty good lead. One reason that we didn’t pound it into the ground is that…