Science communication pollution
Here’s an example of SciComm Pollution — an article that leaves the world slightly less enlightened than they would have been had it not existed. It’s also proof that the media blackout works so well...
View ArticleThe big picture: 65 million years of temperature swings
Greenland Temperatures – last 10,000 years. Are we headed for an ice age? (See below for more detail.) David Lappi is a geologist from Alaska who has sent in a set of beautiful graphs–including an...
View ArticleIce Core evidence — where is carbon’s “major effect”?
The ice cores are often lauded as evidence of the effects of carbon dioxide. Frank Lansner asks a pointed question and goes hunting to find any effects that can be attributed to carbon. Where is the...
View ArticleSpinning more bad news to pretend it answers skeptics. When 400 “equals” zero
Believers really do have trouble with numbers. Today 400 is apparently a lot like zero. Since when was 400 years a gap that anyone called “close”? Especially when we are talking about a molecular...
View ArticleAustralia has had megadroughts for the last thousand years says ice core study
A new study of Law Dome Ice cores tells us that droughts are common in Australia, and that there appears to be eight mega-droughts over the last thousand years, including one that lasted a whopping 39...
View Article1000 year rainfall study suggests droughts and floods used to be longer, worse
A study done on… golly, Antarctic Ice, allegedly shows that in the catchment area for Newcastle in NSW, Australia, the last 100 years have been pretty darn nice, compared to the past when droughts and...
View ArticleSurprise: The Last Ice Age was colder than anyone thought. Blame CO2!
We panic about the next half degree of warming (above the 1.5 we’ve already had) but the depth of the ice age was savagely cold. For years the experts told us what Earth’s temperature was then, but...
View ArticleScience communication pollution
Here’s an example of SciComm Pollution — an article that leaves the world slightly less enlightened than they would have been had it not existed. It’s also proof that the media blackout works so well...
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