From the New York Times: Now climate researchers have detected such a feedback loop at work in the Arctic. It is well known that the region is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Yet scientists have yet to agree on why. Some have theorized that warmer air from the south was responsible, while others [...]
Archive for April, 2010
29 Apr
Gordon Goggin Continues to Misunderstand District
This was posted yesterday on Gordon Goggin’s Facebook page, Save the West Bend Schools: Minute 15:01 on the video posted on the WBSD website for the video entitled Board work session from 4/12/2010, you will see and hear Dr. Pat advocate for an operating referendum AND see Kris Beaver nod his head in agreement. Check [...]
28 Apr
The Religious Right’s Continuing War Agains Civil Rights
TODAY: FRC, ADF, Military Chaplains to Hold News Conference Opposing Possible Overturning of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Rather than openly acknowledge the presence and contributions of gays in the military the Family Research Council wants the military to keep their heads in the sand and pretend they don’t exist. They want to continue to demonize, [...]
28 Apr
Ginny Maziarka Complains About Library’s Support of Endangered Species
From her blog, Wissup: Local Library Takes Up Advocacy for…..gorillas? Our local Young Adult Librarian, Kristin Pekoll (you know, the one who apparently chooses the sexually inappropriate books for our youth at our library) is now partnering with WBHS students in advocating for ….. gorillas. Today’s West Bend News: A number of our animal species are [...]
28 Apr
World Net Daily Continues to Threaten World Health With Its Promotion of Anti-Vaccine Junk Science
Vaccine safety is a staple of right-wing paranoia and fear. Vaccines were initially considered to be dangerous because they were thought to contain mercury in a preservative, thimerosal, which the science denialists claimed caused autism. But when the FDA removed thimerosal from all vaccines by 2002 and the rate of autism still continued to climb they needed [...]
28 Apr
Telling Faith From Mental Illness
From PZ Meyers over at Pharyngula: This is really hard to watch: it’s a young woman giving the benediction at the graduation ceremony at Midwestern State University, in Texas, and she’s so sucked up into her religious fervor that she starts shaking, I catch a hint of speaking in tongues, and finally ends up fainting [...]
27 Apr
Climate Change and Climate Certainty
From the New York Times: April 27, 2010, 2:05 pm On Climate Certainty and Climate Credibility By ANDREW C. REVKIN In 2003, Judith Curry, a climate researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote the following passage in a submission to a federal effort aimed at charting how to reduce uncertainties in the science pointing [...]
26 Apr
The Portable Atheist: Evangelical Teaching
I’m reading through Hitchens’ anthology The Portable Atheist right now and thought this, from Chapter 10, page 75, by George Elliot, was interesting: Given a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth [...]
26 Apr
Oil Companies and Climate Change
Why do the climate change skeptics always accuse climate scientists of being biased, either becasue they are liberal socialists who want to change the world or they are being funded by liberal socialists who want to change the world, and yet never mention the role oil companies are playing in influencing the science of climate [...]
26 Apr
From The National Research Council: Oceans In Trouble
A new study from the NRC, one of the most prestigous, if not the most prestigous scientific association in the United States: Study: Oceans’ Chemistry Changing Rapidly Posted: April 22, 2010 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON—The chemistry of the oceans is changing faster than it has in hundreds of thousands of years because [...]
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