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June 2nd, 2023 - 10:26 pm § in Politics, Republicans, Schools & Colleges

If you pass a law against climate change, it’ll happen anyway

State Sen. Jerry Cirino (photo, left; profile here), an Ohio Republican, is sponsoring a bill that “designates climate policy as a ‘controversial belief or policy.’” On a purely abstract plane, a climate “belief or policy” could be controversial if, say, it posits tha[...]

April 15th, 2023 - 1:52 am § in Environment

Still in denial about climate change?

March 2023 was the 529th consecutive month of above-normal planetary temperatures, using the 2oth century average as a baseline (see story here). You can see that global warming is happening; ice is melting all over the world: Mountain glaciers, Arctic Ocean ice cover, the Greenland ice cap, Antarct[...]

January 10th, 2023 - 4:56 am § in Science

Still think climate change is a hoax?

“Don’t Look Up” is a satire film about humanity in denial about an impending comet collision with earth (details here). It’s a not-too-subtle play on attitudes about climate change. Denialism is quite possibly the most striking cultural phenomenon of our time. Election, clima[...]

December 2nd, 2022 - 9:21 pm § in Environment

Busting a polar bear myth

Background: Polar bears are a symbol of the deleterious effects of global warming. Climate deniers claim: The polar bear population has “never been higher.” The facts: Polar bears came back from near-extinction caused by overhunting, thanks to conservation efforts and hunting restrictions, but t[...]

March 15th, 2022 - 6:40 pm § in Politics, Religion, Science

Here’s GOP candidate’s “proof” evolution isn’t real

“At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not?” No. Science never said “man came from apes.” But that’s what GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker told a congregation on Sunday, March 13, 2022 (story here), adding for good measure, “If that is true” (it i[...]

November 22nd, 2021 - 1:13 am § in America, China, Environment, Politics

Major cities hire “chief heat officers”

Here in Seattle, we sweltered through prolonged 100-degree-plus heat last summer, and I began joking to friends about buying Arctic beachfront property while it’s available. The warming Arctic is no joke, though. Seattle isn’t one of the cities hiring “chief heat officers” &#[...]

July 6th, 2021 - 4:29 pm § in Environment, Politics, Science

Calling climate change “B.S.” doesn’t make it less real

Sen. Ron Johnson (photo, left; bio here), a Republican from Wisconsin, who is arguably the most factually-challenged member of that body in addition to being a liar (“the rioters were just tourists”), “insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier,” but CNN [...]

June 25th, 2018 - 1:47 am § in Environment

GLOBAL WARMING: ALL TOO REAL!

Special report: A 30-year alarm on the reality of climate change Three decades have passed since then-NASA scientist James Hansen testified before the Senate Energy committee and alerted the country to the arrival of global warming. Why it matters: The predictions of the world’s leading clima[...]

November 26th, 2017 - 10:08 am § in Religion

SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Dinosaur Find Proves Creationist Theories are Correct

Alternative Realities: An Allosaurus skeleton, nicknamed “Ebeneezer” shows visitors that the dinosaurs roamed the Earth only 4,300 years ago. Michael Peroutka speaking in front of Ebeneezer at the Creation Museum The Creation Museum, the owner of the remains of an allosaurus named ̶[...]

November 3rd, 2017 - 9:13 am § in Misc.

Global Warming .. in time lapse

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