As previously noted, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz likes to claim that climate scientists have in "the past two or three years" switched to talking about climate change rather than global warming. In reality, of course, both terms have been … Continue reading
As I've mentioned before (link), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has said some seriously absurd and misinformed things about global warming. Here's another brief example from a Senate hearing in which Cruz questions David Titley, a retired rear admiral whose duties … Continue reading
A recent paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues that a record drought in 2007 through 2010, combined with poor agricultural practices and environmental problems, led to "widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming … Continue reading
You will occasionally run into people who think that climate scientists are lying about climate change in order to get grant money. This reflects a misunderstanding of the grant process, not to mention overlooking the fact that fossil fuel interests … Continue reading
On Sunday's edition of the CBS news program Face the Nation (transcript), Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) was asked about Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and the Speaker said, "I'll refer you to my remark at a fund-raiser I … Continue reading
A few days ago I posted a four-minute video from John Green talking about the UN's Millennium Development Goals, an ambitious proposal from the year 2000 to address a number of major world problems in just 15 years. You might … Continue reading
One of the clearest consequences of global warming is the rise is sea level. For now this is being driven mainly by thermal expansion of warming oceans, but the melting of glaciers is contributing as well, and that's almost certainly … Continue reading
A friend of mine recently drew my attention to last year's March 2 episode of the Prickly City comic strip, which you can view here. (Incidentally, it appears that this website, GoComics, lets you subscribe to a variety of strips, … Continue reading
I was recently in a conversation with someone who suggested that this winter's heavy snows in the eastern U.S. had "proved Al Gore wrong" or words to that effect. The person who said this isn't especially interested in science but … Continue reading
A poll released January 29 by the Pew Research Center (link) points out interesting differences and similarities between scientists and the general public in the U.S. on a variety of subjects of broad interest. Scientists polled were selected from the … Continue reading