Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This might or might not happen, or might happen but be watered down. The LA Times reports it as follows … EPA poised to scrap fuel economy targets that are key to curbing global warming — setting up clash with California The Trump administration is poised to abandon America’s pioneering fuel economy targets for cars … Read more
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) tracks what is going on in the Arctic and issues regular updates. While they do of course provide datasets, they also present a very digestible regular insight into what is going on. The latest update is that the Arctic Sea Ice maximum has been reached for this … Read more
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued a report that highlights the ongoing rise in CO2 within our atmosphere. As reported by Reuters … Global energy-related carbon emissions rose to a historic high of 32.5 gigatons last year, after three years of being flat, due to higher energy demand and the slowing of energy efficiency … Read more
Neither Rep. Lamar Smith nor Fox News have a reputation of either honesty or integrity, for the discovery that Mr Smith has published a highly deceptive and dishonest article on Fax News a few days ago is not exactly a surprise. There are in fact no credible media outlets that would be prepared to publish such … Read more
The New York Times has a great article regarding the perils of simply ignoring what the evidence-based science community is telling you. The opening example they have concerns the now infamous 1952 killer fog that happened in London. The Great Smog of London In December of 1952 there was a severe air-pollution event. At the … Read more
A new study published within Nature Communications on 13th March shows that there appears to be a robust relationship between a warming Arctic and more severe winter weather further south. Warm Arctic episodes linked with increased frequency of extreme winter weather in the United States Weather is variable and that is driven by both forced … Read more
