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If one question seems to govern my life right now it is, "Why believe something with insufficient evidence?" Every day I tell my students in every subject that they must "Show...not tell!" It is an axiom in fiction writing but also in science. I take it
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An open letter to the climate change deniers
Dear Climate Deniers,I know you like to be called "skeptics" but that seems unfair. Michael Shermer is a skeptic. I am a skeptic. You are not skeptics.You are skeptical of things much too selectively to earn that title. No. You are denialists; i.e. w...
Worst politician in America.
Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma). Just watch the video at this link and marvel at his pernicious lunacy. It is a spectacular level of willful ignorance to say, "The science really isn’t there" about climate change. Sorry bud. You need to go the wa...
It's the plebes too
Rep. Shimkus' climate change denial is bad. But how does someone on the ground who hates "big government" say they don't believe in climate change? Like this.Hmmm. So God is engineering climate change? So he gets the blame for all of the species that...
Titanic stupidity
I had almost forgotten about this piece of horrific lunacy when I decided it was a good time to go look up some fundamentalists denying climate change. Who comes to my rescue but Rep. John Shimkus (R-Illinois). Watch as he reads from the Books Genesi...
AGU: Human Impacts on Climate Change and Biological Evolution
I've been doing literature searches on ethics and climate change and various groups' positions on climate change. So I was looking at the American Geophysical Union's position statement on Human Impacts on Climate Change. Big shock. They say it's a p...
Climate change deniers on Capitol Hill
During Bush's and the Republican's reign of error for the last several years, climate change denial was to be expected. We knew that Sen. Inhofe (Republican - Oklahoma) thinks climate change is a bunch of quackery and that Exxon/Mobil and big coal ar...
