Volcanoes and CO2 Venting
New set of papers by Deep Carbon Observatory reveals that humans produce up to 100x more CO2 than volcanoes do each and every year.
Climate Science: State of the Climate in 2018
A brief listing of some of the new climate science reports and poblications that have popped up and caught my attention during the past week.
Do Not Feed The Climate Trolls
ScienceAlert, the Australian based website that promotes general science news, has announced a comment policy in response to an unprecedented degree of trolling on their Facebook page. Climate Trolls appear to be swarming whenever a climate related science posting is published. Let’s dive in and see what is happening. What exactly is a comment troll? … Read more
Why is Religion declining?
Over the last three decades a new demographic has emerged – the nones. Why are people who associate with being not religious increasing?
Wingnut Weekly – 29 Sep 2019
For quite literally millions, Trump has been supposedly chosen by a God to serve in office. Those making that claim do indeed truly merit the wingnut badge. I’m not exactly sure how the “especially chosen” claim works. Are they seriously claiming that a God rigged the ballots, or that we don’t have free will? We … Read more
Healing Crystals cause a great deal of serious harm.
Often when faced with some pseudoscientific stuff that appears to be benign, it can be very tempting to think “Well, what is the harm“. Only later do we discover that it comes with a heavy price, one that has a considerably negative impact. One such example concerns the rising popularity of Healing Crystals. The Guardian … Read more