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A manual of spectacularly bad antivaccine arguments

To say that the relationship that antivaccine activists have with science and fact is a tenuous, twisted one is a major understatement. Despite mountains of science that says otherwise, antivaccinationists still cling to the three core tenets of their faith, namely that (1) vaccines are ineffective (or at least nowhere near as effective as health officials claim; (2) vaccines are dangerous, causing autism, autoimmune disease, neurodevelopmental disorders, diabetes, sudden infant death syndrome, and a syndrome that is misdiagnosed as shaken baby syndrome; and, of course, (3) the Truth (capital…

The road to alternative medicine apostasy

I've been blogging for over a decade now, a fact that I find really hard to believe looking back on it right now. I've told the story before, but it's worth briefly recounting again because doing so will explain why the story I'm about to discuss caught my attention. My "gateway drug," if you will, into skepticism was discovering Holocaust denial in the late 1990s on Usenet, a vast and sprawling conglomeration of thousands of discussion forums that began to fade away at the turn of the century with the rise of web-based forums and Google providing an interface to it to make it Google Groups.…

Another Week of GW News, September 27, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News September 27, 2009 Chuckle, Climate Week, UN Summit, G20, CGI, Copenhagen, Bangkok, UNCCD, Subsidies Bottom Line, Planetary Boundaries, IceSat, UNEP, Overshoot Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Ozone, Paleoclimate ENSO, Glaciers,…

What do used car salesmen and stem cell clinic "entrepreneurs" have in common?

Stem cells are magic. Stem cells cure everything. They are the next big thing in medicine. That's the narrative one frequently hears about stem cells in the press and courtesy of offshore stem cell clinics in places such as Italy and direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cells in the US. Of course, stem cells aren't mystical and magical, although they are very promising as a treatment for some degenerative conditions. As promising as they are, though, they don't cure everything. In fact, we don't even know for sure that they cure anything because for the vast majority of conditions for which…

Another week of GW News, January 16, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionJanuary 16, 2011 Chuckles, Cancun, Gillett, Winter, Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka Bottom Line, Ratcliffe - Kennedy, Earth Networks, Open Everything, Cook, Post CRU, Birds Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…

Another Week of GW News, August 14, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionAugust 14, 2011 Autobahn Chuckles, Horn of Africa, Monnett, NEON, Nigeria, North Sea, arXiv, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Kay et al., Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…

Another Week of GW News, October 16, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionOctober 16, 2011 Chuckles, OWS, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Carbon Bill, Drought Monsoon, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production…

Another Week of GW News, June 8, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) Top Stories:Meetings - UNFCCC, G8 & OECD, Nargis, US Climate Bill, IEA Report, Late Comments Food Crisis, Rome Summit, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Abrupt CC, ENSO, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Desertification, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc…

Your Friday Dose of Woo: What is an "altie"? (2008 edition)

It's that time of year again. Actually, it's well over a month past that time of year. Long-timers may remember that, near the very beginning of my old Blogger blog over three years ago, I did a post entitled What is an altie? It was basically a Jeff Foxworthy-like listing of "You just might be an altie if..." statements that, I think, had a good point. For those of you not familiar with the term "altie," it was coined on the Usenet newsgroup misc.health.alternative to describe a certain hardcore variety of alternative medicine aficianado who is utterly immune to evidence or reason. The…

What is an "altie"?

Orac note: While Orac is on vacation (fear not, he'll be returning on Monday!), he's rerunning some of the "best of" the blog (if you can call it that). Actually, he's rerunning whatever strikes his fancy. This one struck my fancy because I used to use the term "altie" all the time, but haven't used it in years. It was a good shorthand for someone like Gwyneth Paltrow. This post originally appeared on April 11, 2008; so some of the references are a bit dated, and some of the links no longer work. But the sentiment is true. Feel free to add your updates to the list until I return on Monday. It…

Homo sapiens: What We Think About Who We Are (Redux)

Preface I originally wrote this post during the late summer of this year, a piece that was fraught with grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and an overall cumbersome attribute that made me admire anyone who was able to get through the whole thing. I have revised and edited the text starting with the first word, adding in some new information along the way, and I hope you enjoy what I feel is a better and more cohesive review of how our own species has seen itself during from the early days of natural history to the present. Some of the major debates (i.e. the origins of bipedalism) are…

Japan Nuclear Disaster Update 27: They should have seen the tsunami coming.

In terms of radiation fallout Fukushima is said to be approaching Chernobyl by at least certain measures, and the potential for Fukushima to be worse in terms of total radioactive material released is very real. However, the two disasters really can't be compared sensibly because the circumstances of release, and the potential effects, are very different. It has become increasingly clear that the authorities involved in the initial construction of the plant should have considered the Tsunami risk as a serious factor, and this is not just because the Tsunami actually happened. The…

Another Week of GW News, August 2, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Sipping from the internet firehose... August 2, 2009 McKinsey Report, WPO Poll, Nile Basin Conf., G2 Conf., Bonner & Assoc., Cash4Clunkers, Dire Projections Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Xcel Perversity, Bangladesh conf., Jellyfish, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests…

Another week of GW News, December 12, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...December 12, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16 Grind, COP16 Deal, COP17, Cablegate, Winter, AGU, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, WB, IEC, Thermodynamics, CSRRT, Cook, CCPI Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Greenland, Antarctica Food Crisis, Global Crop Diversity Trust Project, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…

Statements by John R. Lott, Jr. on Defensive Gun Brandishing

compiled by Otis Dudley Duncan and Tim Lambert revised 23 Oct 2005 by Tim Lambert Note: With the exception of academic publications, some tapes and some found by LexisNexis search, these were found on the Internet. The web is, of course, not perfectly reliable, and items appearing there can later disappear. This approximately chronological listing is probably incomplete, and we welcome additions and corrections. This page documents how often Lott has made the false claim that 98% of with-gun defences involve merely brandishing the gun. A summary and the latest update on…

Another Week of GW News, July 8, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJuly 8, 2012 Chuckles, Post Rio+20, Derecho, Power Failure, Heatwave, Colorado, Bottom Line, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Kurokawa, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…

Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, November 3, 2013

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomNovember 3, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, Post AR5, WG2 Leak, Maplecroft, Kunming, Teng, Donner DLST, Maldives, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Pricing Nature, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme…

"Microcompetition" with antivaccinationists for woo

Back in September, I merrily applied a little not-so-Respectful Insolence to the service of deconstructing the overwhelmingly silly fear mongering by a group known as SANE Vax over the alleged discovery of HPV DNA in the HPV vaccine. SANE Vax, as you may recall, is a group founded by a woman named Norma Erickson dedicated to spreading misinformation about the HPV vaccine. If you peruse the SANE Vax website, you'll see that the common antivaccine tropes are all there; they're just directed mainly at the HPV vaccine. The hysterial fear mongering over the alleged discovery of DNA fragments of…

Another Week of Climate Disruption News, July 14, 2013

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose...July 14, 2013 Chuckles, China-USA, Pollution Deaths, Injection Earthquakes Sumatran Smog, Warnings, Rentiers, Bottom Line, Banks, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Methane, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols…

Another Week of GW News, January 27, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) Top Stories:EU 20 by 2020, AGU Statement, Davos, Anthropocene, Holoconferences? Melting Arctic, WAIS, AMS Annual, Yale Report, Hawaii Conference, Bali Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, Tuvalu, The Inquisition Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Corals, Desertification, Wacky Weather Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Supply & Farming Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings…

Another week of GW News, June 5, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJune 5, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk C40, Death Threats, Cate Debate, FOI Weapon, Thermodynamics, Cook Melting Arctic, Penguins, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, CCAFS, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…

Another Week of GW News, April 12, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News April 12, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:Bonn, Red River Flooding, Ecological Deficits, 2+ Degrees Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics, Antarctica, Polar Conference, Aerosols, Tornado Research, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Ozone Hole, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites…

Another week of GW News, April 4, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information overload is pattern recognitionApril 4, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16, Endangerment Comments, Weathermen, Lovelock Bottom Line, UN CFG, IPCC Support, CRU Inquiry, Stickiness of Myths, Mclean, Late Comments Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Neoliberal Food Policies, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures…

Wizard Trouble: Full Story

So, a funny story about this. I posted a snippet of a fantasy story back in August, and enough people said nice things about it that I actually got off my ass and did some playing around to format the full story as an epub. This was, of course, complicated by the fact that computers are awful, but I think I finally got a version that doesn't have gibberish characters all over. At least, as long as you're not using the worthless free epub reader I initially downloaded, which makes a hash of even actual purchased professional ebook files. I was all set to post that-- had the post all typed in,…

Another Week of GW News, September 11, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionSeptember 11, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Pakistan, Wigley, Keystone XL WikiLeaks, Dessler, Spencer, Monnett, Ecocide, How To?, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…

Another Week of Climate Disruption News, January 12, 2014

Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, see them all here. This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years January 12, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, Polar Vortex, Brulle , Sherwood, Negative Prices Energiewende, Global Legal Framework, Cook, Shrinkology Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices,…

The Open Laboratory 2009 - Countdown: one more day!

Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays): Make sure that the submitted posts are possible (and relatively easy) to convert into print. Posts that rely too much on video, audio, color photographs, copyrighted images, or multitudes of links just won't do. 10 days of science: Astronomical…

Another Week of GW News, October7, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week of Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years October 7, 2012 Chuckles, COP18+, 50 Months, Too Conservative?, CCS vs Renewables, Maldives Bottom Line, Hochberg, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food…

Another week of GW News, June 12, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJune 12, 2011 Chuckles, Bonn, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Equinox Summit, C40, Threats, SRoWE, GFI, Thermodynamics, Cook Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Hunger, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…

Another Week in the Ecological Crisis - May 25, 2014

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose...May 25, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, Post WGx, WAIS, NCA, Insurance suit, Warnings, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Morlighem, GeopoliticsFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Agro-Corps, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Volcanoes,…

Another Week of Climate Disruption News, December 22, 2013

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose...Solstice EditionDecember 22, 2013 Chuckles, Solstice, COP19, AR5, WTO, Retrospectives, Accountability Coal, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Big Banks, Pricing Nature, CookFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Extreme Weather, New Weather GHGs, Carbon…

Another Week of GW News, February 15, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition February 15, 2009 Top Stories:AAAS, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Nicholas Stern, Open Access, YD Impact The Australian inferno Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Sea Levels,…

Another week of GW News, April 10, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionApril 10, 2011 Chuckles, Bangkok, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, IRENA, Goals, BEST Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, GFIs, McKinsey, Psych, Thermodynamics, Open Science, Cook, MDGs Melting Arctic, Fresh Water Pool, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel…

Goat Girl, or, The Milking Life

(Our new buckling, Cadfael, bred by our friends Jamey and Carol at Weathertop Farm (who are a great place to start if you are looking for little goats.) We arrived at their place recently about three minutes after he was born! Note: This is a repeat from last year, since we've got visitors and family coming and the spring planting rush upon us. The baby goats in question are now bred teenagers, we own our own buck, Selene is no longer herd queen and Mina has mostly stopped driving Eric insane...mostly. But otherwise, all is much the same. I've had many people email and tell me that my…

Another Week in the Ecological Crisis, June 15, 2014

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years June 15, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, Globe, Mischief, EPA Carbon Rule, Wenju Cai, Warnings, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Forecasts, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes,…

Darwinian Method

OK, this is really ancient. It started as my written prelims (various answers to various questions by different committeee members) back in November 1999, and even included some graphs I drew. Then I put some of that stuff together (mix and match, copy and paste) and posted (sans graphs) as a four-part post here, here, here and here on December 2004. Then I re-posted it in January 2005 (here, here, here and here). Finally, I reposted two of the four parts here on this blog (Part 2 and Part 3) in July 2006. This all means that all this is quite out of date. The world has moved on, more…

Is Child Porn In the Eye of the Beholder?

[More about photography, children, childpornography, pornography, porn; fotografi, barn, pornografi, porr, barnporr, barnpornografi.] In issue 2011:1 of Fotografisk Tidskrift, the journal of the Swedish Photographer's Association, is a fine essay in Swedish by Jens Liljestrand (Twitter @jensliljestrand) about current attitudes to images of children and the definition of child pornography. Before the piece could be printed with the accompanying photographs, the journal's editor, my friend Jenny Morelli, had to clear its contents with the rights holders, who don't know Swedish. So she asked me…

Bad scientific arguments in the service of "animal rights" activism

One of the greatest threats to the preclinical research necessary for science-based medicine today is animal rights activism. The magnitude of the problem came to the forefront again last month with the news that animal rights terrorists tried to enter the home of a researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) whose research uses mice to study breast cancer and neurologic disease while she and her husband were having a birthday party for one of their children and assaulted her husband, who had gone to the front of the house to confront them. This unrelenting attack on the use…

Another week of GW News, December 20, 2009

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I ho8pe you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information overload is pattern recognition December 20, 2009 Chuckles, Copenhagen, COP15 Dailies, Copenhagen Accord, COP15 Rhetoric, COP15 Demos, COP15 REDD 550 ppm Leak, +2C Impact, AGU, Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Open Access, Sunspots, CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate, Satellites…

Another Week in the Ecological Crisis, February 9, 2014

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years February 9, 2014 Chuckles, C40, NSA, MPAs, Warnings, Fish, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook Fukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Greenland, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food: Crisis, Prices, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, New Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Milankovitch Cycles, Aerosols, Volcanoes, ENSO…

Another Week of GW News, February 12, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomFebruary 12, 2012 Chuckles, Horn of Africa, Europe, Maldives, Jacob, WSJ-16, Opinions Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, USCG Healy, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…

Another Week of GW News, September 7, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) Information overload is pattern recognition September 7, 2008 Top Stories:Pfeffer, Mann, Elsner, Geoengineering, Garnaut, Monsoon Floods Melting Arctic, Northwest Passage, Markham, Permafrost, Jasons, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, Ike, Hanna, Gustav, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Aerosols Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts Mitigation,…

Another week of GW News, January 23, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJanuary 23, 2011 Chuckles, COP16, WFES, Why?, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Australia Bottom Line, UEF, Thermodynamics, Cook, Post CRU, Late Comments Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-chem Corps, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…

Another week of GW News, February 21, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition February 21, 2010 Chuckles, de Boer Resignation, Copenhagen, UN-CFG, AAAS, Greenhouse Effect, Snow, Branson, Gates, iPhone App Bottom Line, Dunning-Kruger, IPCC, RealClimate on IPCC, FOI as a Weapon, Mann, CRU, Denialist Campaign Melting Arctic, Permafrost Line, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis,…

Another week of GW News, July 3, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJuly 3, 2011 Chuckles, G20, State of the Climate, Threats, The Conversation Bottom Line, Subsidies, GFI, Psyche, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs,…

Another Week of GW News, June 21, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... June 21, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:Solstice, UKCP09, USGCRP, Synthesis Report, GLOBE, Chapman, DB Clock, Desertec Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Honisch, Sol, Sarychev, Late Comments on Bonn Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate, Glaciers,…

The Open Laboratory 2009 - Countdown: two more days!

Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays): Make sure that the submitted posts are possible (and relatively easy) to convert into print. Posts that rely too much on video, audio, color photographs, copyrighted images, or multitudes of links just won't do. 10 days of science: Astronomical…

Following up on a very old case: Abraham Cherrix is alive and well because he finally rejected alternative medicine

One of the gratifying things about having been blogging so long—nearly 13 years now!—is that you start to see stories that you wrote about a long time ago resurface, allowing you to see the resolution. For instance, I've not infrequently written about people who, mistakenly believing the blandishments of alternative medicine practitioners that they could forego all that nasty chemotherapy and radiation and survive their cancer to live a happy, normal life, made the disastrous decision to eschew conventional medical therapy and pursue alternative medicine. My interest in this topic comes from…

Another Week of GW News, December 30, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years December 30, 2012 Chuckles, Seasonal, COP19+, Bromwich, Arctic Cyclone, Retrospectives Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Suing TEPCO, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Temperatures…

Your weekend politics

Hmmm, I have not done one of these in a few weeks, so if you depend on me for your political information, check under the fold: The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama: From the start, there have always been two separate but equal questions about race in this election. Is there still enough racism in America to prevent a black man from being elected president no matter what? And, will Republicans play the race card? The jury is out on the first question until Nov. 4. But we now have the unambiguous answer to the second: Yes. The Fraud Of Fraud: It looks right now as if the election might not be…